Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for [pos pn] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The persistent tendency to cover up for our lack of effectiveness by using vague language must be strongly resisted . |
| 2 | It was an uncompromising little den which , in keeping with the rest of the house , stoutly refused to make up for its lack of charm . |
| 3 | An international row is brewing among scientists who say that the EEC 's ISPRA establishment in Italy is trying to make up for its loss of Super-SARA by stealing other plum research contracts for which it is ill-equipped from specialist fusion laboratories throughout West Europe . |
| 4 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 5 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 6 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |