Example sentences of "[prep] allowing for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent research suggests that children who were breast fed have higher intelligence than those bottle-fed from birth , after allowing for the extra time breast-feeding mothers might spend with their babies or extra effort they might put into mothering . |
| 2 | Figure 1 b shows the rotation rate residuals after allowing for the increased value of slowdown rate which fits the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 3 | The external conjugate was not , however , related to cardiovascular mortality after adjusting for head circumference whereas the trend in cardiovascular mortality with head circumference remained significant after allowing for the external conjugate diameter . |
| 4 | Observed values of rotation rate for the first 15 days ; as in Fig. 1 c , all values are residuals after allowing for the normal slowdown rate , the persistent increase in slowdown rate , and the 265-day component . |
| 5 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 6 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 7 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 8 | The difficulty lay both in defining the ‘ upper ’ and ‘ lower ’ limits of the stratum within the hierarchy of social status , and in allowing for the marked heterogeneity of its membership within those limits : there was always , at least , an accepted internal stratification into grande moyenne and petite bourgeoisie , the latter shading off into strata which would be de facto outside the class . |
| 9 | The Group believed that the Children Bill further eroded the already inadequate rights of poor families by allowing for the progressive transfer of parental rights to foster-parents and by widening the powers to dispense with parental consent to adoption . |