Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said . |
| 2 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 3 | Mustelids are intermediate between categories 2 and 3 ( Table 3.13 ) , with only 24 per cent of the incisors digested but the degree of digestion is heavier than seen for most category 2 predators ( Fig. 3.24 G ) . |
| 4 | In rainy weather , they sometimes concentrate on the less nutritious foods rather than search for more fruit , but in fruiting trees seem not to pay much attention to other frugivores though they eat most , and that wastefully . |
| 5 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 6 | By contrast , purchases bought with credit cards and shop accounts turned out to be less expensive than planned for more people than average . |
| 7 | The right-wing coalition knows better than to ask for any help from the Greens . |
| 8 | In the GDR , the Wachsregimente of the Ministry of State Security ( MfS ) and the Bereitschaftspolizei of the Ministry of the Interior have more than sufficed for this purpose , enabling the NVA to keep its hands clean and its morale high . |
| 9 | It is best to use lime rather than cement for this type of infill |
| 10 | Computerisation , although established for some time in sales and administration , has been introduced to Production Control . |
| 11 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 12 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 13 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 14 | However , the practical implementation of these specialised services is too cumbersome for regular use outside these fields of activity , and more general services such as Telecom Gold , whilst offering the possibility of adequate authentication , can prove expensive ( and thus unattractive ) if used for that purpose . |
| 15 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 16 | Some manufacturers pack 20 litre quantities in square sectioned metal drums but these are difficult to handle and tend to corrode , spoiling the contents , if stored for any period of time . |
| 17 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 18 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 19 | While waiting for these elements to become commercially viable partly accounts for the delay , IBM also has reason to be cautious about allowing its mainframe customers to run existing transaction processing applications on smaller — and far cheaper — RS/6000s . |
| 20 | There was an inquiry about this in 1867 , when Richard Colwell was said to have left wheat at the mill for three weeks , while waiting for enough water to work the mill . |
| 21 | While waiting for this money to come through , he asked the owners if they would allow him to order goods for the coming summer season . |
| 22 | While begging for this help , the Collective Ghost clutches at an adventurer ( treat as an attack ) . |
| 23 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 24 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 25 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 26 | your own , or your wifes or husbands , employer while working for that employer , but not while using a vehicle provided by the employer . |
| 27 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 28 | The decision whether to ask for more money from the Home Office will be made by a special panel who meet on June 25 to discuss the issue , as well as deciding how to fund new security cameras for Warrington and police pay rises . |
| 29 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 30 | As reported for some HIV-1-infected patients , B cells spontaneously secreting antibodies are not always present . |