Example sentences of "than [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As luck would have it , my best friend is the most wonderful cook in the world , and her contributions to any cottage holiday more than compensate for those who come with a tin of sardines in tomato sauce and a Pot Noodle . |
| 2 | But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said . |
| 3 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 4 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 5 | Mustelids are intermediate between categories 2 and 3 ( Table 3.13 ) , with only 24 per cent of the incisors digested but the degree of digestion is heavier than seen for most category 2 predators ( Fig. 3.24 G ) . |
| 6 | In rainy weather , they sometimes concentrate on the less nutritious foods rather than search for more fruit , but in fruiting trees seem not to pay much attention to other frugivores though they eat most , and that wastefully . |
| 7 | People tend to admire common sense and strong business instincts rather than going for those who can out- think the competition . ’ |
| 8 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 9 | One fine day and such a trip as this more than compensates for all the bad ones . |
| 10 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 11 | By contrast , purchases bought with credit cards and shop accounts turned out to be less expensive than planned for more people than average . |
| 12 | The right-wing coalition knows better than to ask for any help from the Greens . |
| 13 | In the GDR , the Wachsregimente of the Ministry of State Security ( MfS ) and the Bereitschaftspolizei of the Ministry of the Interior have more than sufficed for this purpose , enabling the NVA to keep its hands clean and its morale high . |
| 14 | It is best to use lime rather than cement for this type of infill |