Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Repeat for the other side of the arch . |
| 13 | Repeat for the required length . |
| 14 | If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage , then repeat for the further tap . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 20 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 21 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 22 | The overall mean for the 1984–5 sample was 54 per cent and for the 1985–6 sample it was 53 per cent . |
| 23 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The combination of fire and family probably account for the striking personalities of Ella Burrows and her daughter . |
| 29 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |
| 30 | The completion accounts shall consist of [ a statement of net assets of the business drawn up at the transfer date and a profit and loss account for the xx months then ended and such additional notes as the Vendor 's accountants shall deem reasonable ] and shall be prepared , in order of descending priority , with due regard to the concept of materiality in accordance with : |