Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year . |
| 4 | Field Chairs are not paid for their additional responsibilities , nor do they automatically receive any remission of teaching ( though most fields have developed arrangements which partially compensate for the considerable demands of the post ) . |
| 5 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 8 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 9 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 10 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 11 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 12 | Repeat for the other side of the arch . |
| 13 | Repeat for the required length . |
| 14 | By the time he had managed to crawl on to the bed , dragging such scarves as he could find to shield his eyes , for the curtains were only flimsy cotton of a summer rented house , all annoyance , all regret for the wasted day , all intentions , all straining for activity , was gone , absorbed into the panic that connected — as if there was a piston rod — his throbbing head , the lights crossing behind his eyeballs and his churning stomach . |
| 15 | In 1965 Lyndon Johnson told Congress that ‘ If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of deprivation , crime and hopelessness … if we become two people , the suburban affluent and the urban poor , each filled with mistrust and fear for the other … then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come . ’ |
| 16 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 17 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 18 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 19 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 20 | Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan . |
| 21 | Final selection of the project , approval of the project for inclusion in the capital budget , setting of project implementation controls and post-audit review account for the remaining stages of the project cycle are covered in detail in chapter 5 . |
| 22 | The constraints imposed on the market area by travel , therefore , probably account for the limited range of goods and services being provided at many sites , while more specialized facilities and luxury items were only available in the larger population centres where demand was greater . |
| 23 | The combination of fire and family probably account for the striking personalities of Ella Burrows and her daughter . |
| 24 | The force of cohesion and tension in this column account for the upward rise of the water . |
| 25 | There would then be no minority interest figure in the profit and loss account for the current year , since the minority interest will also have been a debit balance last year end . |
| 26 | Sinn Fein account for the other two Northland seats in the form of Mitchel McLaughlin , who moved from Cityside and newcomer Mary Nelis . |
| 27 | Rumours of this purpose account for the early popularity of the French ; they had come to support the ‘ Desired One ’ . |
| 28 | These changes , which were just beginning to develop at the end of Marx 's life have thrown into question much of this original Marxist theory and account for the modern debate about whether or not the capitalist state is always ( or ever ) an instrument which defends the interests of the ruling class in a repressive way . |
| 29 | For instance , personality variations account for the wide range of reactions towards a salesperson . |
| 30 | These are known as ‘ transferred cases ’ and account for the vast majority of appeals . |