Example sentences of "compensate for this " in BNC.

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1 They compensate for this by gaining water from their food both through the workings of their powerful kidneys , which extract much of the water from the urine , and by the condensation of water during breathing .
2 But the psychologists compensate for this by claiming other kinds of reliability for their analyses .
3 The first three also damage stratospheric ozone , while ozone produced in the troposphere does not compensate for this loss , but in fact behaves as another greenhouse gas .
4 It should be possible to detect and compensate for this using ‘ intelligent ’ software routines , but this would seriously complicate the software .
5 Some of us may compensate for this by driving our cars like dervishes or creating dramas in our personal lives .
6 Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm .
7 Out of the Frame , the compactness of the gallery restricts Mike Roles ' unique photo sculptures to a couple of pieces , but many of the artists working maquettes should compensate for this ( until 7 Mar ) .
8 Compensating for this loss of sight , some species have small extendable tentacles at the angle of their jaws which serve as sensitive feelers .
9 as if to compensate for this , he applied military techniques in the colony .
10 A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden .
11 Hutt was small , 5′2″ , and did his best to compensate for this by attempting to achieve status as a local spender , a pretence at affluence his lowly job as a labourer did not support .
12 a student at Cambridge University paying reduced fees and formerly having to carry out some menial work to compensate for this .
13 In an attempt to compensate for this and to represent what I can only assume is a minority interest for your readership , my entry consists of a substantial majority of jazzers .
14 Because there is usually less protein in vegetarian dishes , more yogurt has been included in these menus to compensate for this .
15 In order to compensate for this , farmers are having to do what the Dockertys have done — diversify .
16 In fact , in an attempt to compensate for this , the nurses would paint nail varnish on her toe-nails and put bows in her hair .
17 The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this .
18 To compensate for this the author might include remarks in p6 which somehow introduce p2 .
19 In order to compensate for this , some studies such as those by Deidre Wilson and Leslie Shacklady Smith ( 1978 ) undertook studies of girl delinquents and found that girls joined gangs and participated in street life in the same way as boys .
20 To compensate for this , feminist psychology , like traditional psychology , often becomes excessively systematic .
21 Albireo is the faintest of the stars in the X , and is further away from the centre of the pattern , marked by Gamma ; but to compensate for this , Albireo is the loveliest double in the sky , with a golden-yellow primary and a 5.4-magnitude blue companion .
22 She only spends about 8 hours without food and fluid and is soon able to compensate for this .
23 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 .
24 It is therefore sensible to compensate for this increased entity description by attempting to rationalize what entities need to be communicated between workstations and company sites .
25 In order to compensate for this it would be worth exploring the effects of using , say , under 65 years standardised mortality ratio for men and under 75 years standardised mortality ratio for women , which will be based on similar numbers of deaths .
26 Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out .
27 To compensate for this , state grants to students , pensioners and the low-paid would rise by 30 to 40 per cent .
28 In order to compensate for this the Borough Council took on the responsibility for payment of the Parish Clerk 's salary and the maintenance of parish playing fields .
29 After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion .
30 To compensate for this handicap , which was compounded by the hostility of the mainstream press , de Gaulle and the RPF were compelled to make creative use of the assets that they did have .
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