Example sentences of "trying to make [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 An international row is brewing among scientists who say that the EEC 's ISPRA establishment in Italy is trying to make up for its loss of Super-SARA by stealing other plum research contracts for which it is ill-equipped from specialist fusion laboratories throughout West Europe .
2 There is no doubt in my mind that the many years spent wrestling indifferent cars around the track , trying to make up for what Lauda calls the ‘ evil ’ that dwells in all of them , must take its toll .
3 Trying to make up for his misspent youth .
4 Then he said in a calmer voice , ‘ Well , perhaps I 'm just trying to make up for lost time . ’
5 Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible .
6 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 .
7 I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had .
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