Example sentences of "allowance [be] made for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An allowance is made for unused hotel accommodation in Bangkok . |
| 2 | An allowance is made for unused hotel accommodation in Bangkok . |
| 3 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 4 | When all allowance is made for such factors , it has to be said that as some people get older they do appear to show a marked increase in anxious self-absorption . |
| 5 | If allowance is made for such births , the proportion of births in 1986 with fathers in social classes I and II falls to 29.6 per cent . |
| 6 | Where no allowance is made for this depreciation in the calculation of investment , the resulting figure is called gross investment . |
| 7 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 8 | Even when allowance is made for meagre resources , there seemed often to be a wilful and needless callousness to many of these suburban barracks . |
| 9 | The mispricings for 1986 and 1987 were significantly larger when no allowance was made for stochastic interest rates , but there was no difference for the period from 1982 to 1985 . |
| 10 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |