Example sentences of "to compensate for the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each nuclide at each time the geometric of anterior and posterior counts was calculated , to compensate for the anteroposterior movement of the gastric contents during emptying . |
| 2 | For a small screw pitch the effective inertia of the load is reduced and the motor can accelerate rapidly , but must attain a high stepping rate to compensate for the small increments of linear movement produced by each motor step . |
| 3 | The patient may try to use his ‘ good ’ side to compensate for the affected side of his body which he can not move at will . |
| 4 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 5 | The higher the w ratio , the greater will be the demand for money in order to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 6 | It is vitally important that the integrity of solicitors is not jeopardised by their drive for new markets to compensate for the possible loss of conveyancing . ’ |
| 7 | Hence , if you tuck your average driver into a seat belt , the driver will take more risks to compensate for the increased sense of security . |
| 8 | Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has since tried to compensate for the ill-favoured move with assurances that the new bodies would have the resources to perform at least as well as the old NCC . |
| 9 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 10 | In this context the authors note that ‘ equalizing ’ income differentials ( higher income to compensate for the lower attractiveness of some jobs ) are normally swamped by ‘ accentuating ’ differentials ( such as status and recognition following high income ) . |
| 11 | It also revealed the paltry sums thrown at such communities by BC to compensate for the lower quality of life they are forced to endure . |
| 12 | The milk ration for children was increased specifically to compensate for the nutritional shortfall in school meals that would otherwise have occurred ; civil servants realised there would be a public outcry if the meat reduction took place and nothing was done to make up for it . |
| 13 | Volkswagen has fitted bigger engines to compensate for the extra weight of the stronger and safer structure of the latest version . |
| 14 | Here again a rational trader will want sufficiently advantageous terms in the forward market to compensate for the extra costs of transacting . |
| 15 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 16 | The oven with the see-through door and light as well as a timer helps to compensate for the missing sound of your joint sizzling . |
| 17 | In Britain the government has allowed tax relief for child care provided by employers , to encourage women to return to the work-force to compensate for the missing teenagers of the 1990s ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 18 | The rest of the major clubs in Scotland , meanwhile , have given unselfishly of their players to compensate for the mass withdrawal from Ibrox . |
| 19 | May I ask the Secretary of State specifically about the extra resources to compensate for the running down of Holy Loch ? |
| 20 | We have a steady flow of new developments in hand to compensate for the declining production from our older North Sea fields , notably Forties ( BP : 83.1% ) and Clyde ( BP : 51% ) . |
| 21 | Commodore is putting vigorous efforts into ensuring a base of non-games software to compensate for the potential flood of what they call ‘ dumpware ’ — Amiga games dumped onto disc for a quick , easy sale in the CDTV market . |
| 22 | That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture . |
| 23 | At the half-year the increase in carpet profits will be unable to compensate for the significant fall in Sekers ' profits , causing an overall profit erosion . |
| 24 | So , although AViiON sales are increasing quarter by quarter , they are n't bringing in enough to compensate for the sudden drop-off in MV business . |
| 25 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 26 | Without it , the camcorder will try to compensate for the reduced light by increasing the exposure , and the picture will look muddy rather than magical . |
| 27 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 28 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |