Example sentences of "allowing for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could we climb that fast , even allowing for the more modest grading of most of it ? |
| 2 | Allowing for the conventions of sedate amenity that governed American reviewing ( as for the most part they still do ) , one can detect in the American reviewers of Eliot 's Poems ( 1920 ) and of The Waste Land ( 1922 ) the same recalcitrance that the British reviewers expressed more cheekily . |
| 3 | But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link . |
| 4 | Under Sean Kerly , Southgate have got their act together quickly , even allowing for the loss of such players as Richard Dodds and Robert Clift , Peter Boxell and Jagdis Barber , and through injury , Rupert Welch and John Shaw . |
| 5 | The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons . |
| 6 | ‘ Allowing for the recovery period is also important as far as the next cooking cycle is concerned . |
| 7 | Even allowing for the pound being on home ground that is a sizeable difference . |
| 8 | It was this base which , allowing for the unusual circumstances of the General Election of December 1923 , permitted Labour to form its first government early in 1924 . |
| 9 | While doing so , it remembers the direction of its prey in three dimensions , allowing for the effects of its own transverse movements . |
| 10 | Bonn is a handsome town but , far as it is from the historic centres of German power , it seems an odd choice for a capital , even allowing for the Allies ' post-war policy of de-centralisation . |
| 11 | The most recent research suggests that children who were breast fed have higher intelligence than those bottle-fed from birth , after allowing for the extra time breast-feeding mothers might spend with their babies or extra effort they might put into mothering . |
| 12 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 13 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 14 | ‘ We can expect to sight land here , about Bantry , or maybe Cliffden , allowing for the wind speed . ’ |
| 15 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 16 | A portrait of a fat and overpowering Sir John is still at the house today and , even allowing for the artist 's flattery of his patron , this is a face you would not trust . |
| 17 | ‘ Even allowing for the subject under exposition that evening , ’ he said , ‘ I would hardly think that the two were connected . ’ |
| 18 | In many countries gonorrhoea is the most commonly notified communicable disease , even allowing for the under-reporting , which usually far exceeds the notification rate . |
| 19 | With women , even allowing for the fact that slides of material from three sites , urethra , cervix , and rectum may be examined , this early diagnosis is only possible in about 50 per cent of cases . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 21 | However , even allowing for the fact that the population and satellite data were collected 13 years apart , the differences are greater than we would have liked . |
| 22 | It is reasonable to suppose that this fact is significant , even allowing for the fact that Scaevola is disproportionately well represented in the Digest by cases on the law of succession . |
| 23 | Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years . |
| 24 | Even allowing for the fact that not all BL Lac objects produce X-rays , Schwartz and Ku conclude that the statistics rule out the idea that BL Lac objects are simply ordinary quasars seen ‘ beam-on ’ . |
| 25 | But it had a promenade deck , like the Hindenburg , and carried its passengers in considerable luxury even allowing for the natural exaggeration of the Imperial Airways Gazette : ‘ passengers making air journeys in the new Empire type flying boats of Imperial Airways not only express their admiration for the speed and quietness in flight of these air liners , and for the spaciousness of their saloons , but they also pay warm tributes to the efficiency of their catering arrangement ’ . |
| 26 | Even allowing for the traditionally light-hearted Italian attitude toward obtaining government money , Italy 's wolves number at best only about 150 , including puppies . |
| 27 | All I will say here is that Bukharin was far too sanguine in his treatment of such a transition , even allowing for the fact that it was being treated at a purely abstract level . |
| 28 | Moreover , even today allowing for the enormous growth in monopoly , or oligopoly , in the advanced capitalist countries , the national economies have not yet reached that condition of ‘ rationality ’ or planning in production that Bukharin assumed had been already achieved . |
| 29 | On paper their bowling looks a trifle thin , particularly with regard to the demands of the Britannic Assurance County Championship , even allowing for the wit and wisdom of Messrs Hughes and Botham . |
| 30 | Even allowing for the cost of the curtain tape and cotton required , I calculated that I would be overcharged by £80 . |