Example sentences of "[vb mod] make up for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by . |
| 2 | But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood . |
| 3 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 4 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 5 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 6 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 7 | ‘ I think perhaps the bike will make up for the Brownies , ’ Daddy confided to Mummy . |
| 8 | Come on , Miss Williams , you 're not so naïve that you honestly believe that a mere apology will make up for the way you behaved . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing , according to Slater , will make up for the fact that Alpha is three years late to market . |
| 10 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 11 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 12 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 13 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |