Example sentences of "[verb] for [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed no hope now , nothing to go for except a curiously marked pocket which fitted two finger tips . |
| 2 | They are by no means compensated for by a disproportionately high level of real disposable income . |
| 3 | This inertia in accepting the need for change was , however , amply compensated for by an extremely effective programme of design , the setting up of new manufacturing facilities and by the retraining of assembly workers to handle the new electronic technology . |
| 4 | For those on the margins or in casual labour the extra mouths to feed in infancy was more than compensated for by the potentially increased sources of income and domestic help in childhood and adolescence . |
| 5 | The downgrading of domestic industry may be compensated for by the more progressive business environment that foreign , and particularly high technology US , European or Japanese companies promote . |
| 6 | The requirements for military or test pilots place less emphasis on the number of flying hours required and this is compensated for by the more stringent type of flying they have been involved in ( though it is true that a large proportion of airline pilots learned to fly and served in military aviation before becoming civil pilots ) . |
| 7 | Bangladeshi infants were cared for in a consistently rich sensory environment ; Welsh infants , in contrast , were more likely to experience alternating periods of high and low sensory input . |
| 8 | I must tell you , if you do n't already know from the newspapers , that he is cared for by a most responsive nurse who has been enabled by hormone therapy to breast feed him . |
| 9 | The trend of national statistics reveals that there will be an increasing number of retired and elderly people to be provided for by a progressively fewer number of workers . |
| 10 | The Belfast & District cup was again competed for at the vastly improved Dunmurry Golf Club on Sunday 16th May . |
| 11 | The certainty that the average is a type is paid for by the relatively few properties which are likely to survive a generalizing procedure over many individuals . |
| 12 | As it is , the company can not in any case be accounted for as a wholly contractual phenomenon . |
| 13 | This is accounted for by the rather different procedure adopted in child sexual abuse investigations when there is an urgent need to protect the suspected victim and her or his evidence from outside pressure which may well emanate from the victim 's family . |