Example sentences of "[subord] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upfront and honest , she is concerned about rights and wrongs and would rather die shouting for a cause than hide behind a corporate banner . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest . |
| 8 | Many employers did little more than comply with the bare regulations . |
| 9 | I think I 'd rather live in the park than go to the smelly old place . |
| 10 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 11 | Even Schopenhauer could do no more than persist in a hopeless search for truth . |
| 12 | Inglis ( 1965 ) summarised data which showed that among individuals with memory defects only the number of items recalled from the second ear differed from the number recalled by normal control subjects , whereas recall from the initial ear was similar for both groups . |
| 13 | The infinitive after make in the passive |
| 14 | All this helps explain the obligatory use of the to infinitive after know in the passive : ( 121 ) Mrs MacAnder was known to contribute articles to " The Ladies ' Kingdom Come " . |
| 15 | Consequently at a US National Security Council meeting of 9 July 1953 , although note was taken of a report which recommended " greater independence and greater responsibility in the area by the United States vis-à-vis Britain " , it was still thought necessary to add an important rider : Capitalize on such elements of strength as remain to the British in the area by such support of United Kingdom positions as may be consistent with U.S. principles and policy objectives . |
| 16 | Lydia Becker , a leading Victorian feminist , compared the position of middle class women unfavourably with that of working class women : ‘ What I most desire , is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms of equality as prevail in the working classes and the highest aristocracy . |