Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was made out for £2m from the Football Trust , but should have been £1m . |
| 2 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 3 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 4 | Bundespost Telekom says that operating profit in 1992 fell 4.6% to the equivalent of $4,157m ; after Telekom has made its required subvention to the federal government and its two loss-making sister units , it will be left with nothing to add to reserves — it is required by law to transfer 10 pct of its annual turnover to the federal government and to make up for losses at the Postdienst mail service and Postbank postal banking unit , Reuter notes . |
| 5 | There was a mild stockbuilding boom , probably to make up for dislocations over the winter , and commodity prices took off again . |