Example sentences of "could make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 3 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 4 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 5 | But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman 's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs . |
| 6 | But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps now she could make up for her crime against society . |
| 9 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 10 | However , Benzie felt that issuance by important European issuers such as banks , industrial companies , mortgage institutions and to a lesser extent governments could make up for these . |