Example sentences of "[adv] compensate [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Agitation does not completely compensate for the lack of direct activity . |