Example sentences of "[noun pl] to compensate for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors demand high returns to compensate for possible failure , making share issues an expensive way to raise cash . |
| 2 | But they are not random errors : they grow out of her particular approach to spelling , and suggest that she may have trouble in the future because of a weak visual memory and her attempts to compensate for this are reckless and haphazard . |
| 3 | But Mr Clarke told ministers : ‘ I am against any question of raising taxes to compensate for proper control of public spending . |
| 4 | But we acquire new houses to compensate for that . |
| 5 | Again , some psycholinguists maintained that top-down constraint merely facilitated recognition , while others argued that top-down information had to produce hypotheses to compensate for inaccurate acoustic information . |
| 6 | The Commission proposed retaining the principle of paying farmers direct subsidies to compensate for significant cuts in price support from 1993 to 1996 . |
| 7 | The Purchaser should rely on the normal contractual measure of damages to compensate for any breach of Warranties — ie the difference between what the Business would have been worth had the warranty been true and what it is actually worth in the light of the breach . |
| 8 | The NHS has traditionally recruited large numbers of learners to compensate for high wastage rates from the profession . |
| 9 | Because there is usually less protein in vegetarian dishes , more yogurt has been included in these menus to compensate for this . |
| 10 | Transport workers staged strikes on Jan. 15 and 26 , 1990 , for increased wages to compensate for monthly devaluations in the peso , which had fuelled inflation rises . |
| 11 | If workers believe inflation is likely to accelerate , they will demand high enough wages to compensate for expected increases in prices . |
| 12 | New social policy mechanisms to compensate for these changes will need to be developed . |