Example sentences of "[vb base] for [art] [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 | Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 12 | Like plants that jostle for a bare minimum of soil and light , human beings would eventually fill all the available territory , he warned . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Repeat for the other side of the arch . |
| 17 | Repeat for the required length . |
| 18 | If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage , then repeat for the further tap . |
| 19 | The parallel is with women who habitually miscarry for no known reason . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It rubs hoarding space with Howard Hodgkin , whose paintings sell for a million pounds and more . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I mean for every great Cure record you get an inferior follow-up with all the same ingredients but without the spark . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean for a little holiday ? ’ |
| 26 | But what does " arguing a case " mean for a literary studies essay ? |
| 27 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 28 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 29 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 30 | 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 . |