Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] for the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The left , in its turn , is appalled that people who are thrown out of work through no fault of their own should then be required to undertake slave labour to qualify for the benefits that are due to them . |
| 2 | Second , there is the failure to provide for the fact that disabled older people require higher incomes than non-disabled people . |
| 3 | The model is clearly unsatisfactory in a number of respects ; for example , the absence of investment , the failure to allow for the fact that the incidence of unemployment is not spread evenly and of its consequent distributional effects , and the assumption that prices are rigid but quantities are perfectly flexible . |
| 4 | In those circumstances it does not seem to me right to leave open , whether the court has power to do so I 'm doubtful , but in any event it does not seem to me right to leave open a question of whether there should be some damages to provide for the possibility that er Paul may have to leave school , nor do I think that it is a situation in which any contingency award should be made in respect of that . |
| 5 | Twenty years ago it was expected that if you trained you would surely be accepted into the membership of your trade union and be given the chance to compete for the roles that were suitable . |
| 6 | It will take some years to complete that process , but that is a necessary price to pay for the flexibility that the legislation gives us . |
| 7 | Surely this is a very reasonable price to pay for the knowledge that if anything falls apart ‘ up there ’ it wo n't be you . |
| 8 | Considered objectively , they were an instrument of torture ; but the discomfort they caused was a small price to pay for the knowledge that Kate had persuaded him to buy them . |
| 9 | Thors was a small price to pay for the risks that Britain would be running by having American missiles deployed in her crowded islands . |
| 10 | It is possible to calculate hypothetical exchange rates to allow for the fact that specific commodities ( say , bread , video cassettes etc. ) are cheaper in country A than country B. Such comparisons of production on the basis of ‘ real income per head ’ , or ‘ purchasing power parity ’ showed the UK in 1985 to have 64.8 per cent of the income of the USA , or 85.6 per cent of the average of six countries shown at Figure 2.2 . |
| 11 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 12 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 13 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 14 | It should be stressed that similar conclusions to those of figure 7.4 hold when comparisons are made within a particular social class to control for the fact that higher social classes are both more likely to marry late and to be owner-occupiers . |