Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The popularity of arbitrage portfolios suggests that the advantages more than compensate for the risk that the value of the arbitrage portfolio will deviate from the index at delivery . |
| 5 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 6 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 7 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 8 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 9 | Rather than wait for the release of the third cinema outing , Ocean have written an excellent multilevel extravaganza , incorporating and improving on existing styles from the other two RoboCop games . |
| 10 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 11 | The World Cup referees must have felt that the ball had ‘ been killed ’ on the ground and that it was therefore necessary to blow straight away for the penalty rather than wait for the advantage to occur . |
| 12 | Moreover , if the tables are to be turned , the USSR will do so at a time of her choosing , rather than wait for the hour of maximum danger to herself . |
| 13 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 14 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 15 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 16 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 17 | At the summit , which was by all accounts an exceptionally heated affair , President Mubarak broke with Arab tradition and forced through a majority vote , rather than wait for the emergence of a unanimous compromise . |
| 18 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 19 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 20 | In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’ |
| 21 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 22 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 23 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 24 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 25 | A weight loss of only 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) in the previous week ( less than expected for the effort put in ) . |
| 26 | Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 . |
| 27 | It took much longer than expected for the population to be reduced by deaths , occasional discharges and transfers to new units . |
| 28 | Survival curves were identical for patients who were and were not operated on and were only slightly worse than expected for the general population matched for age . |
| 29 | It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass . |
| 30 | The birds do n't help themselves because when they are frightened they fly into the air and circle around rather than head for the trees . |