Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Repeat for the other side of the arch . |
| 9 | Repeat for the required length . |
| 10 | If necessary use a metal bar to increase the leverage , then repeat for the further tap . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 14 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 17 | The overall mean for the 1984–5 sample was 54 per cent and for the 1985–6 sample it was 53 per cent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( a ) 25% to 50% of library users use the catalogue ; ( b ) students account for the greatest proportion of the user population ; ( c ) the catalogue is used predominantly for known-item searching and use increases with users ' educational level ; ( d ) public library users do more subject searching than academic library users . |
| 21 | The force of cohesion and tension in this column account for the upward rise of the water . |
| 22 | There would then be no minority interest figure in the profit and loss account for the current year , since the minority interest will also have been a debit balance last year end . |
| 23 | Rumours of this purpose account for the early popularity of the French ; they had come to support the ‘ Desired One ’ . |
| 24 | These changes , which were just beginning to develop at the end of Marx 's life have thrown into question much of this original Marxist theory and account for the modern debate about whether or not the capitalist state is always ( or ever ) an instrument which defends the interests of the ruling class in a repressive way . |
| 25 | For instance , personality variations account for the wide range of reactions towards a salesperson . |
| 26 | These are known as ‘ transferred cases ’ and account for the vast majority of appeals . |
| 27 | The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services . |
| 28 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 29 | Teachers ' salaries account for the largest proportion of education spending in all types of school , though this varies from around 70% in primary and secondary schools to 59% in special schools . |
| 30 | Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation . |