Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 2 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 3 | However , they were not normally set up for the heavy infantryman 's tactics of prolonged defence before a steady advance , although they were misused in these roles at times . |
| 4 | It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version . |
| 5 | It claims over 1,000 ISVs have already signed up for the new version . |
| 6 | Several big names have already signed up for the massive complex which will house 68 shops when it opens in August . |
| 7 | As well as crime for corporations and crimes against corporations ( employee theft ) , there are corporations deliberately set up for the sole purpose of committing criminal activity . |
| 8 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 9 | Are educational establishments really geared up for the European challenge , and do our current measures go far enough ? |
| 10 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 11 | Curbishley then stepped up for the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles and proceeded to win by 25 metres in a time of 43.9 secs , 1.6 seconds inside the Division Five record . |
| 12 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 13 | Who actually speaks up for the vulnerable older person ? |