Example sentences of "compensate for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responses range from bribing ( as your competitors do ) to refusing to bribe at all , but making adjustments ( for instance to price ) that will compensate for the bribe being offered and allow competition for a contract to be real . |
| 2 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 3 | The feeling of fullness you acquire from , say , jacket potato or brown rice or wholemeal bread can certainly help compensate for the restriction of saturated fat and refined sugar . |
| 4 | Although the money MI6 has provided has given him access to Western luxuries , they can not compensate for the fact that he will never see his motherland again . |
| 5 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 6 | Agitation does not completely compensate for the lack of direct activity . |
| 7 | Even if she was sitting next to him , complaining about his driving , her own imminent decease would not compensate for the depression generated by his own . |
| 8 | Importing authorities , on the other hand , have complained that the cross-boundary flow adjustment does not fully compensate for the actual workload since , by using average costs , it does not fully cover the costs of treating high-cost cases . |
| 9 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 10 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
| 11 | It was as though he thought keeping fit would compensate for the image of the decadent Arab which was reflected in most of the press . |
| 12 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 13 | Teachers are asked to develop an alternative female culture of achievement and independence which will compensate for the romanticism , dependency and passivity found amongst women in society . |
| 14 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 15 | And modern salinometers will automatically compensate for the temperature and pressure and do this conversion so you can get a direct read out from an electrical instrument of the salinity . |
| 16 | Yet the Genn study in particular shows that no amount of enabling by the tribunal can compensate for the difficulties claimants face in attending the tribunal and arguing their cases . |
| 17 | ‘ Lighting can try and compensate for the lack of colour by creating certain moods . |
| 18 | This would compensate for the extra costs and disadvantages of disability , and thereby help to reduce the disparity experienced by many older women between their needs and resources . |
| 19 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 20 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 21 | In general , the more directly political approach argues that the manner in which the state may compensate for the misery of the periphery is crucial and warrants serious investigation since under certain circumstances it may be possible for state intervention to operate with beneficial , net long-term effects . |
| 22 | Tax increases in other areas , including a new tax of 1.3 per cent on incomes exceeding F40,000 million , would only partly compensate for the cuts . |
| 23 | He had changed but not bathed , and the new slogan on his T-shirt , ‘ Maggie rules , OK ? ’ did not compensate for the stench of the great unwashed . |
| 24 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 25 | Since the increase in tax revenue and the fall in unemployment expenditure would compensate for the cost of servicing the loan , there would be no burden on the exchequer . |
| 26 | ‘ No amount of holiday can compensate for the beginning of the autumn term , ’ Andrew answered gloomily . |
| 27 | Members were told the move would compensate for the loss of car parking spaces in the High Street . |
| 28 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 29 | Nothing can compensate for the loss of my sister . ’ |
| 30 | Moreover , a collective managerial guilt was at work , attempting to ‘ compensate for the forty years of Francoism suffered by the mass of the workforce ’ . |