Example sentences of "compensate for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 4 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 5 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 6 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 7 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 8 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 9 | Importing authorities , on the other hand , have complained that the cross-boundary flow adjustment does not fully compensate for the actual workload since , by using average costs , it does not fully cover the costs of treating high-cost cases . |
| 10 | Ozone is itself a form of greenhouse gas — helping to retain the sun 's reflected heat in the atmosphere - , and its destruction may be allowing more heat to escape than was hitherto thought , compensating for the increased heat retention caused by the build up of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other " greenhouse gases " . |
| 11 | I lubricated my eidetic memory , priming it to summon up still more lurid fantasies , carnal changelings compensating for the real thing . |
| 12 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 13 | It elevated the papacy to a new level of authority within the Church , compensating for the steady erosion of its political role during the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | The control voltage at pin 5 consequently increases , the ON time of TR1 increases , and the output voltage rises , compensating for the original fall . |
| 15 | For each nuclide at each time the geometric of anterior and posterior counts was calculated , to compensate for the anteroposterior movement of the gastric contents during emptying . |
| 16 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 17 | A rates reduction for a certain period is inadequate to compensate for the great disruption that was caused to people seeking to make a living in that area — people who do not have the wherewithal or the ability to use the court system against the Minister . |
| 18 | The patient may try to use his ‘ good ’ side to compensate for the affected side of his body which he can not move at will . |
| 19 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 20 | The higher the w ratio , the greater will be the demand for money in order to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 21 | It is vitally important that the integrity of solicitors is not jeopardised by their drive for new markets to compensate for the possible loss of conveyancing . ’ |
| 22 | Hence , if you tuck your average driver into a seat belt , the driver will take more risks to compensate for the increased sense of security . |
| 23 | This is further complicated if a helicopter radio with some form of collective/tail rotor mixing is used , since this will increase the tail rotor pitch to compensate for the increased power and pitch being used . |
| 24 | This mixing increases the tail rotor pitch to compensate for the increased torque when collective pitch is added , but in an autorotation landing there is no torque at all so the yaw effect is even more pronounced . |
| 25 | Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has since tried to compensate for the ill-favoured move with assurances that the new bodies would have the resources to perform at least as well as the old NCC . |
| 26 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 27 | The milk ration for children was increased specifically to compensate for the nutritional shortfall in school meals that would otherwise have occurred ; civil servants realised there would be a public outcry if the meat reduction took place and nothing was done to make up for it . |
| 28 | Furthermore , all families on income support have to pay 20 per cent of the community charge and the whole of their water charges , and although the rates of income support include an allowance to cover the community charge payment , it is quite insufficient to compensate for the extra expenditure . |
| 29 | Volkswagen has fitted bigger engines to compensate for the extra weight of the stronger and safer structure of the latest version . |
| 30 | So that the training is not unduly prolonged the deans suggest that the undergraduate course could be shortened to compensate for the extra time spent as a house officer . |