Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoddle 's been in the transfer market to make up for Shearer 's loss . |
| 2 | Textiles were excluded and there was no significant increases in the sugar quota to make up for cuts in recent years . |
| 3 | I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue . |
| 4 | Ruari and Ranald normally lazed about , cut peat , or borrowed a boat and rowed out to do a bit fishing to stock up for the winter , while Luch did her usual tasks and her usual check on the baby — the babies , now — in the bower . |
| 5 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |