Example sentences of "[to-vb] up for the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conflict with authority : Family members may repeatedly try to cover up for the misdeeds of the primary sufferer and may be exceedingly angry with various authorities when they themselves are found out . |
| 2 | Mr Delors should be told in no uncertain terms that his job is to stick up for the whole of the EC not just for France . |
| 3 | There was another stream to drink from , perhaps an opportunity to visit some of the gorge 's ‘ five considerable caverns ’ , and in the scene as a whole , images enough for Coleridge to store up for the poetry of the future . |
| 4 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 7 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 8 | For example , he stumbles into this howler on the question of social security as cash , rather than provision in kind : ‘ Social security benefits have been introduced to make up for the withdrawal of more general provision : examples in the UK are free prescriptions ( introduced because prescription charges were introduced ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 9 | This is the time to make up for the imprecision of the life story in Step 1 . |
| 10 | Thomas is seeking to recoup from Essex the fees his parents have had to pay to make up for the lack of state-funded special tuition available to him . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 13 | By the way the lot of seemed to be played in Hertfordshire these days , and one of the great days is at Harpenden and that 's on September the first on Sunday , when they have their annual single-wicket competition , and that 's a great local event and it 's bound to encourage all the young cricketers in the neighbourhood , they 're trying to make up for the lack of cricket in schools , so well done Harpenden and that is on Sunday next , er , er , first of September and I 'll give you the time in a minute if I can find it , when it is , it does n't say , but it 's probably all day at the Harpenden club , well done Harpenden encouraging young people to play cricket , Sunday first September . |
| 14 | Although the military authorities soon vacated the school to move into Doncaster Racecourse across the road , the re-opening of the school had been delayed and the Christmas holidays had to be cut to make up for the loss of time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the kitchen she was cordon bleu , to make up for the neglect of the other evening . |
| 17 | I decided to economise on decor to make up for the expense of the filter . |
| 18 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |
| 19 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 20 | It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | KENNY Dalglish is poised to bring in a Danish defender to make up for the disappointment of losing £2.5 million Craig Short . |
| 23 | It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment . |
| 24 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |