Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 2 | However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work . |
| 3 | Overall , Mr Charkin presented a picture of a man enthralled by present opportunities and future potentialities , rather than yearning for the comfortable certainties of the recent past . |
| 4 | Providing for exceptional and individual needs may be more costly than providing for the average needs of fairly homogeneous groups of pupils . |
| 5 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 6 | The document suggested that every school has a common aim , that of helping children ‘ to meet the basic academic and social demands of adult life ’ while allowing for the unique differences that exist between child and child . |
| 7 | Multivariate proportional hazard regression was used to analyse the relation between waist-hip ratio and probability of conception per cycle while controlling for the above variables . |
| 8 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 9 | Also , because of his terrible sense of direction , he would get lost when hunting for the wrong things and Endill had to spend much of his time searching for him , almost getting lost himself . |
| 10 | The college wants to make the sale , sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners last summer , to set up a fund for maintaining and refurbishing its Founder 's Building , as well as caring for the remaining pictures . |
| 11 | A sleeve as used for the Aramid lines , Spectra and Dyneema would help , but do n't think of using this material for the flying line ! |
| 12 | Nevertheless , in the fourth century the Franks were also in close contact with the Romans , as allies and as recruits for the imperial forces . |
| 13 | Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the fact that constructions containing mutated oligonucleotides I or III failed to stimulate transcription to wild type values , argues in favour of a direct effect of the binding proteins on transcription , in a similar way as observed for the homologous constructions . |
| 15 | Repeat the process as defined for the upper floors , inspecting each room in a convenient order , but with three important additions : inspect for rising damp ; check the security of the windows and doors ; and finally check the meters , valves and fuses etc , associated with the water , gas and electricity supplies . |
| 16 | To sequence the rest of RO , the entire fragment was cloned in M13 and sequenced as described for the RE' subclones . |