Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] make up for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It may be worth investing in a course of vitamin supplements — they ca n't make up for a poor diet but they can provide a useful boost occasionally . |
2 | However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity . |
3 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
4 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
5 | ‘ It is worth many thousands of Australian dollars so that will partly make up for the disappointment . |
6 | But experience can often make up for a yard or two of pace . |
7 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |