Example sentences of "compensate for that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No money can compensate for that . ’ |
| 2 | Did you try and compensate for that by the way you set up your Cabinet-committee structure ? |
| 3 | Seeing as an electric guitar becomes an almost entirely different animal at high volume , how do you compensate for that when you practise ? |
| 4 | So you 've bui built this machine to incorporate that error so you can compensate for that . |
| 5 | Nothing , nothing , could compensate for that . |
| 6 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 7 | To compensate for that possibility , sterling-holders need higher interest rates than they would if they believed the pound would never be devalued . |
| 8 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 9 | But we acquire new houses to compensate for that . |
| 10 | If you suffer loss as a result of the manner of an unfair dismissal , for example because you lose the chance of another job when your prospective employer learns that you have been sacked , you will be compensated for that loss . |
| 11 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 12 | The Trent Bridge slaughter in no way compensated for that World Cup final defeat — or being outclassed 2-1 in the summer 's Cornhill Test series . |
| 13 | Mary 's authoritarian treatment of customs duties might have compensated for that decline , had not Elizabeth and Burghley allowed inflation to erode their true value . |
| 14 | She points out that at the size S 1 the marginal benefit of the last inch is less than the marginal cost to you , which is also the amount you must be compensated for that last inch on the tree . |
| 15 | But as you say it may well be that erm we can look at it and say well really that factor compensates for that one , |