Example sentences of "compensate for [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Great Northern Hotel may make way for the new concourse but its loss will compensated for by the refurbishment of the grade one-listed St Pancras Hotel .
2 Eisner and Nowicki suggest that the occasional missed meal is more than adequately compensated for by the preservation of the web .
3 To some extent they are compensated for by the availability of a wealth of clinical material , and by the experience of working in urban and rural communities .
4 Hence the loss of areas 3 + 5 to the UK is more than compensated for by the remittance of profits from Germany , as area 10 is greater than areas 3 + 5 .
5 To the English , no settlement could be envisaged without consideration of their king 's claim to the crown of France , a claim which might be compensated for by the grant of other territories in France , to be held in full sovereignty .
6 Its omission from the exhibition is compensated for by the inclusion of two later versions ( 1896 , Goteborgs Kunstmuseum and 1907 , Tate Gallery , the only painting by the artist in a British public collection ) .
7 The insects are only an annoyance on the rare days when there is n't a breeze blowing , and are more than compensated for by the wealth of bird life in the area And it is not only birds .
8 Thereafter about 10 per cent of qualified staff left annually , particularly in the younger age groups which is partially compensated for by the re-entry of qualified staff .
9 The temperature may be lower than in the height of summer , but that 's compensated for by the peace and quiet you find out of season .
10 An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling .
11 But the inward drift slows slightly as the extra dissipative losses are more than compensated for by the energy and angular momentum which the bar pumps in at this point — recall that the bar is here going around faster than the gas , so it has a tendency to spin the gas up as well as a tendency to cause it to radiate vigorously .
12 Some tone did go , but this was more than compensated for by the Power Tool 's onboard EQ .
13 As the black hole loses mass , the area of its event horizon gets smaller , but this decrease in the entropy of the black hole is more than compensated for by the entropy of the emitted radiation , so the second law is never violated .
14 Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow .
15 Such betrayals , when not over-taxing the as yet limited mental resources of the infant , are compensated for by the acquisition of new much praised skills and satisfactions .
16 Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast .
17 The limitation of the power of flight and of many other capacities surrendered as a result of the insatiable appetite of the developing man for ever more ability , was to be at least partially compensated for by the advance of technology in a remote future .
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