Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 2 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 3 | The tutorial supplied is excellent and more than makes up for the formal style of the manuals . |
| 4 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |
| 5 | We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team . |
| 6 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 7 | A census of birds sighted each day throughout the year , and kept up for a considerable number of years , is an invaluable source of information to all concerned with the monitoring of bird numbers . |
| 8 | All appointees have to provide a urine sample — even Pamela Harriman , the new ambassador to Paris , had to stand in line , clutching her paper cup — and turn up for a face-to-face interview , which usually lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours . |
| 9 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 10 | After a particularly barbarous game of Murder Ball in the school gym , I stripped off and queued up for a quick soaking , along with 40 other pre-pubescent boys . |
| 11 | Ami Popper , a 21-year-old Israeli civilian dressed in an Army uniform and carrying his brother 's Army-issue M-16 rifle , drove to the area from his home in Rishon Le Zion and rounded up for a bogus security check a group of Gazans , whom he then sprayed with bullets , killing seven and wounding nine others . |
| 12 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |