Example sentences of "[noun] to make [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |
| 2 | His landlord wants him to pay a further $170 to make up for the deposit that 's gone missing . |
| 3 | KENNY Dalglish is poised to bring in a Danish defender to make up for the disappointment of losing £2.5 million Craig Short . |
| 4 | The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany . |
| 5 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 6 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 7 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 8 | The Government says that many scholarships will be on offer to make up for the charges , but surely this means that only rich people and the very brightest of the less well-off will be able to afford a degree . |
| 9 | Finally , why will the Government not allow the extra European funds to be spent in the coalfields to make up for the jobs that have been lost ? |
| 10 | ‘ But I 've got a lot to make up in the slalom events . ’ |
| 11 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |
| 12 | There has been increasing anguish among law-abiding poll tax payers who are being surcharged £19 to make up for the shortfall caused by uncollected tax . |
| 13 | ‘ I prefer it if men find ways of dressing to enhance their personality rather than using clothes to make up for the lack of one . |
| 14 | Taylor wants everyone to be sunny side up after the World Cup qualifier to make up for the fact that no English club sides are left in Europe and give everyone — players and fans — a lift . |
| 15 | So here the relationship between the lexical concepts has to be marked in some way to make up for the inadequacy of the words to indicate what part of the general context of knowledge is to be engaged . |
| 16 | This internationally acclaimed programme has mobilised the Vietnamese people to plant at least 160,000 hectares of trees per year to make up for the loss of some 2.2 million hectares of forest and farmland destroyed during the war , as well as the country 's current forest losses . |
| 17 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 18 | A two week tour of Europe was organised for late-June/July in order to make up for the shows cancelled at the end of last year . |
| 19 | His flat is modernist and bleak , his clothes are grey , she dresses in red and puts enough flowers in his kitchen to make up for the decimation of the rainforests . |
| 20 | The quiet-spoken Esson has paid the price of seeing Defender slip from being third at one stage of the first leg to ninth in Punta , leaving Watkins to attack a two days , 17 hours , 37 minutes and 25 seconds deficit to make up on the leader , the New Zealand ketch Steinlager , and a 30 hours , 54 minutes , 52 seconds on the other top British challenger , Rothmans . |
| 21 | I decided to economise on decor to make up for the expense of the filter . |
| 22 | This is the time to make up for the imprecision of the life story in Step 1 . |