Example sentences of "to compensate for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likely contributing factors are that people fail to recognise , and to compensate for insidious deterioration of vision , hearing and decision speed as they age . |
| 2 | Of course he thinks it would be better still from the point of view of justice if no one was made to compensate for emotional injury . |
| 3 | Is it the responsibility of medicine to compensate for poor quality of life or to eliminate injustices by non-consenting life-terminating acts — or is death to be seen as a therapy ? |
| 4 | Investors demand high returns to compensate for possible failure , making share issues an expensive way to raise cash . |
| 5 | Difference-of-squares circuit uses feedback attenuation to compensate for lost output |
| 6 | Despite some progress they have done little to compensate for long term NHS underfunding |
| 7 | One additional benefit of adjustable string tension is that it can allow tightening to compensate for natural string slackening . |
| 8 | The normal absorptive capacity of the colon , estimated to be as much as six litres per day , should be able to compensate for significant fluid losses from the small intestine in secretory diarrhoea . |
| 9 | But Mr Clarke told ministers : ‘ I am against any question of raising taxes to compensate for proper control of public spending . |
| 10 | However , smokers may inhale more in order to compensate for reduced nicotine intake and may eventually take in as much , or possible more tar [ 6 ] . |
| 11 | As long as fluid intake remains adequate to compensate for ensuing polyuria the blood volume will remain expanded with resultant elevation of cardiac output and thus blood pressure . |
| 12 | In many areas the indicator taken by the LEA for extra funding to compensate for urban disadvantage is the number of children registered for free school meals . |
| 13 | Courts were generally regarded as fair , and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage . |
| 14 | It is up to each individual union to deal with this problem , but the obvious right course for all of them is to compensate for broken time — and this included the RFU . |
| 15 | Wendler says one result will be that ‘ software prices will rise astronomically to compensate for declining hardware revenues . ’ |
| 16 | The NHS has traditionally recruited large numbers of learners to compensate for high wastage rates from the profession . |