Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 2 | While this is a welcome help it does little to compensate for the difference in service provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 3 | Let me say I believed that the wrongs of women were interconnected with and subsidiary to the wrongs of man ; that to work for the revolution was to work , indirectly , for women . |
| 4 | I find I 've got to make excuses for myself if I do n't , but I sort of think I 've got this to do for the children , and that to do — and I 'll have a grand old clean up next week , sort of thing . |
| 5 | There is therefore much to gain and much to lose for the profession . |
| 6 | They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality . |
| 7 | But not to worry … there 's plenty survived the worst of the weather … and there 's much to admire for the committed gardener and the casual observer |
| 8 | The ‘ next step ’ of setting up a public authority-the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members-to assist actively in enforcing such individual rights could have been too much to swallow for the unions . |
| 9 | Obviously he 's never going to get his chair up serious hills on his own , but is it too much to ask for the planners of country parks and the like to consider less able users when planning level routes such as nature trails ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 've nothing more to ask for the moment . ’ |
| 11 | It is enough to know for the moment that you are going … |
| 12 | So , although AViiON sales are increasing quarter by quarter , they are n't bringing in enough to compensate for the sudden drop-off in MV business . |
| 13 | My constituent felt strongly that neither the amount on offer from the student loans scheme nor the money available from the postgraduate access fund would be enough to compensate for the loss of housing benefit to her undergraduate daughter or to her elder daughter , who was on the postgraduate music course . |
| 14 | Two space dimensions do not seem to be enough to allow for the development of complicated beings like us . |
| 15 | They alone would not be enough to account for the clumpiness on intermediate scales that studies of the sky reveal ; but there is a way to amplify their effects . |
| 16 | Even language may not be enough to account for the agreement in a social contract not to do X , when |
| 17 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 18 | Of course , Ralph would want his bit out of that as well , so obviously we were n't getting enough to pay for the rent and food , which Graham and myself desperately needed . |
| 19 | And film makers can be confident that a single prize can earn more than enough to pay for the feasting . |
| 20 | Sometimes parents rip off stars from charts so often that the child never has enough to exchange for the big reward . |
| 21 | It is saying too little in that to ask for the reason for the validity of a consent to certain normative consequences is the same as to ask for the reason for recognizing a person as holding a certain right to bring about these consequences . |