Example sentences of "[subord] [vb -s] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 2 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 3 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 4 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Because goes for the key |
| 6 | The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless . |
| 7 | At present the country 's exports of these metals are small but the volume could be stepped up as uses for the materials grow . |
| 8 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 9 | The National Feder-ation of Professional Workers had already objected to the proposed constitutional reforms of the BUF and what they saw as plans for the suppression of Parliament , the imprisonment of opponents , and the establishment of a private army . |
| 10 | ‘ Expenses are always the same as costs for a period . ’ |
| 11 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 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 | A number of principles , notably that of collective responsibility , have been set out as signposts for the continuing evaluation of services for the under-fives . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Carter said , ‘ We 're using the other rooms as billets for the men . ’ |
| 16 | As hopes for the League disintegrated and the Peace Ballot consensus broke apart , those who followed the logic of collective security found themselves forced to unlearn many of the lessons of the First World War . |
| 17 | This example of a major deal outlines the money paid to the artist as advances for a seven-album , world-wide deal , with recording and video costs recoupable . |
| 18 | Calculations are then carried out as follows for a dishwasher : |
| 19 | As an example , the section 530 could have been developed as follows for a sequence : 530 , 531 , 532 … 537 , 538 , 5391 , 5392 , 5393 … etc . |
| 20 | These requirements were specified as follows for the design of ‘ new ’ systems . |
| 21 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 22 | The problem is , however , that claims for inherent harmony are vulnerable to the same kinds of objection as claims for an inherent conflict . |
| 23 | Five normal healthy men were selected as controls for the study . |