Example sentences of "make [art] allowance for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Middlesbrough Council has made no allowances for cost inflation and will not increase its contribution towards concessionary fares for pensioners .
2 Er I mentioned that we have made an allowance for students in this migration .
3 If a London voluntary body can not agree a budget , as happened this year , the Secretary of State will set one , but will make no allowance for inflation .
4 The figures make no allowance for investment grants , special depreciation allowances , and accounting devices which were used to reap rewards in the form of capital gains ( which have been less highly taxed ) instead of trading profits [ King , 1975 ] .
5 However , this makes no allowance for deaths of the mothers or deaths before 15 among the daughters replacing them .
6 If the regulatory framework permits the transfer to customers of the whole cost of rising fuel bills , but makes no allowance for investment , generating companies would have an incentive to build the cheapest possible power plants , which are likely to be costly and inefficient in the use of fuel .
7 He adds that the Greek government 's assessment makes no allowance for evaporation and calculates the reduction in the amount of water reaching the wetlands on the basis of the present total flow rather than on the present volume reaching Missolonghi .
8 It is clear from ( 8.33 ) that the futures index will rise by 1 per cent on the day the shares go ex dividend , whereas the cash index ( which makes no allowances for dividends ) will be unchanged .
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