Example sentences of "to compensate [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Altman has worked out what yield spreads above those on Treasuries would be needed to compensate for default rates at current levels . |
| 2 | When the bare minimum market value is offered to compensate for disturbance or injury , disputes inevitably ensue , with professional advisers saying , ’ This is too little ’ and the proposer saying , ’ It is about right ’ with the inevitable delay that results . |
| 3 | They may also be seen as payments to compensate for culture shock . |
| 4 | additional paper required to compensate for spoilage in printing . |
| 5 | The appropriate rate of interest to compensate for delay during the determination process is 1 per cent over base . |
| 6 | In the third ( 11+ ) , children realised that equality or fairness were n't always enough and you sometimes have to compensate for circumstance . |
| 7 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 8 | The move , he said , would mean selling on the produce at convertible prices , and he promised an increase in the minimum wage from Oct. 1 to compensate for price increases . |
| 9 | therefore the invoice is for a larger sum than expected , which may be due to an increase in contract price on the anniversary of its letting to compensate for price inflation . |
| 10 | By the 1960s the London ring 's increase had fallen and was no longer able to compensate for core losses , leading to a massive net loss in the SMLA as a whole . |
| 11 | However , it is possible to compensate for definition length by dividing the score assigned to any overlapping pair of words by the joint length of their definitions . |
| 12 | Unlike us , the horse 's teeth continuously grow upwards to compensate for wear which is why they need regular checking and rasping . |
| 13 | Indeed , discussions of this aspect often seem to consider the function of health services to be to compensate for deprivation itself rather than for its health damaging effects . |
| 14 | Add a few drops of methanol to compensate for evaporation . |
| 15 | Add a few drops of methanol to compensate for evaporation . |
| 16 | And it was desirable , or would have been , if his style had been less intimidating , if the proposed freedom had offered a colour , light or warmth to compensate for astral and angelic voices . |
| 17 | Whatever prestige and influence might be gained by being a reserve currency was wholly insufficient to compensate for export profits being lost by overvaluation . |
| 18 | Even if this classification scheme could be improved upon , it clearly serves far better than the traditional indicators in identifying those areas most in need of extra resources , in order to compensate for poverty and deprivation , through educational and personal social service provision . |
| 19 | For instance , although we are not self-sufficient in milk products , British dairy farmers have quotas imposed on them to compensate for French and German over-production . |
| 20 | The way they operate affects the calculations and sentiments of investors , which in turn affects the returns required to compensate for risk . |
| 21 | The response of the companies is that such prices are necessary to recoup the costs of R&D , and to compensate for risk , since only a small proportion of R&D generates innovations that are commercially viable . |
| 22 | Its wording on financial compensation , moreover , fell well short of UK suggestions that frozen Iraqi assets could be used to compensate for loss or damage suffered by Kuwaitis ( the Kuwaiti central bank governor having estimated on Oct. 17 that a restored Kuwaiti government would seek $12,000 million in compensation for looting , theft or damage ) . |
| 23 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 24 | Dutch plan to compensate for power emissions |
| 25 | Under planned reforms of the EC 's common agricultural policy , the EC intended to bring in direct income support payments for farmers , to compensate in part for cuts in price support subsidies . |