Example sentences of "[noun sg] to compensate for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deprived of its mother 's constant care in those years , it will grow up emotionally handicapped , incapable of forming deep relationships and might steal in an attempt to compensate for a lack of mother love . |
| 2 | In an attempt to compensate for the reduction of Soviet aid the government made serious efforts during 1990 to improve economic relations with its Asian neighbours , including Thailand , Indonesia and Taiwan . |
| 3 | News of the donation reached the UK press by June 6 and prompted a hostile reaction , as it was interpreted as an attempt to compensate for the killing of a policewoman , Yvonne Fletcher , outside the Libyan People 's Bureau in London in April 1984 [ see pp. 33004-05 ] . |
| 4 | A night fighting variant , the Firefly NF.II , was developed in which an 18° extension was incorporated aft of the engine firewall to compensate for an alteration in the aircraft 's centre of gravity . |
| 5 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 6 | Er we do hold the view that the sixty hectares is sufficient on the on the basis that there is a degree of flexibility within the structure plan provision , er and that er flexibility should allow us erm in special circumstances for example to compensate for the loss of existing major employment erm sites , erm to make additional provision over and above that . |
| 7 | Does it ever occur to these orchestra-first people that , whereas in the theatre , though you may hear more of the orchestra than of the singers , nevertheless your attention is focused visually on the stage , while on disc you need the stage brought into the aural foreground to compensate for the loss of the visual facility ? |
| 8 | It is important therefore to build into the existing legal disincentives a heavy penalty to compensate for the difficulty of detection . |
| 9 | Even in that situation you would probably be rescued by a passing cruise ship , on board which they would stuff you endlessly with food to compensate for the boredom of the interminable view of the sea . |
| 10 | Like Hungary , Poland is using tax breaks and special currency provisions in an effort to compensate for the lack of a convertible currency . |
| 11 | It has even been speculated that a community which has grown up around a manufacturing plant may have a claim for compensation against the owners , if the latter decide to close the plant , in order to compensate for the diminution of land values and the destruction of the local economy . |
| 12 | The national and regional survey figures indicate that the large companies are in a better position than small companies to expand their export activity to compensate for a recession in the home market . |