Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RENTOKIL was quick off the mark yesterday when it decided to increase its dividend by more than earnings to compensate for the Chancellor 's decision to cut the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 2 | The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss . |
| 3 | At two thirty-five , the front door was opened by Penman , and Alexandra , in a green wool crèpe dress with a lace jabot and a good deal of complicated silk braid around the hem , under a coat of similar fabric , slit to the waist at the back and sides to allow for the movement of her skirts , and a hat swathed in green gauze and decorated on the left hand side with brown velvet pansies , came down the steps and climbed in . |
| 4 | There should be enough spaces in the exhibition schedules and venues to allow for the mounting of lower priority short-term exhibitions outwith the major thematic exhibitions . |
| 5 | The functions , including in particular those to be carried out for the direct benefit of individual members of the public , such as social services , may require the borrowing of money and do require the recruiting and employment of many men and women to work for the council . |
| 6 | His model of what computer learning should be like is taken from the ‘ Samba schools ’ in Rio de Janeiro , where experts and stars gather a coterie of followers and students to prepare for the carnival . |
| 7 | ICAS has also welcomed the Budget proposal to extend capital gains retirement relief by relaxing the existing 25 per cent shareholding condition to a single individual 5 per cent test and by allowing full-time working employees as well as directors to qualify for the relief . |
| 8 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |