Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 2 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 3 | So instead , I refined my masturbation in combination with my hawk-eyed recollection to produce a variety of sexual experience which — ( I now realise ) — more than compensated for the absence of the real thing . |
| 4 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 7 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 8 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 9 | It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | These are normally a lot less than paying for the whole aircraft over the same short period , but after the term of the lease the aircraft must be sold , or re-financed . |
| 12 | It is saying too little in that to ask for the reason for the validity of a consent to certain normative consequences is the same as to ask for the reason for recognizing a person as holding a certain right to bring about these consequences . |
| 13 | They are not illustrated here , because the nature and extent of digestion are the same as illustrated for the first category . |