Example sentences of "[vb base] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 7 | Like plants that jostle for a bare minimum of soil and light , human beings would eventually fill all the available territory , he warned . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | support a continued moratorium on hunting the great whales , and push for a similar body to the International Whaling Commission to take responsibility for the 66 small cetaceans currently unprotected |
| 10 | Repeat for the other side of the arch . |
| 11 | Repeat for the required length . |
| 12 | The parallel is with women who habitually miscarry for no known reason . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I mean for every great Cure record you get an inferior follow-up with all the same ingredients but without the spark . |
| 16 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean for a little holiday ? ’ |
| 18 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 19 | Change for a different use |
| 20 | These ten programs contend for a limited number of real and symbolic resources . |
| 21 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 22 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 23 | Critics ascribed the rise in currency to the current trade surplus and high domestic interest rates rather than the impact of foreign investment funds , which account for a small proportion of equity investment . |
| 24 | As the social services account for a substantial part of public spending , cuts affected a wide range of services . |
| 25 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 26 | We have made real progress in developing our non-oil related businesses where sales now account for a good proportion of the Group 's turnover |
| 27 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 28 | Every year a number of trailers are rolled over on our roads and trailer accidents account for a great deal of glider repairs . |
| 29 | Tourists from other countries account for a great deal of revenue to some large hotels and therefore a watchful eye is kept on the figure , so that advertising campaigns can be planned to attract foreign visitors . |
| 30 | In spite of knowledge of precautions , injuries from accidents during sport and leisure activities are common-place and account for a significant proportion of emergency admission to hospitals . |