Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 2 | I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day . |
| 3 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 13 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 14 | Whale meat made up for the lack of other sources of protein in the Japanese diet . |
| 15 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 16 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 17 | A dark close , a dark eerie house with silent people inside , and confused , childish tales of evil spells and horror — all made up for the ostracism of the two Rosin children . |
| 18 | Both make up for the lack of nutrients in the soil by trapping and digesting small insects . |
| 19 | Deep cupboards in both the scullery and pantry house the necessary quantities of glass and china , and deep double sinks in both rooms make up for the lack of the modern dishwasher . |
| 20 | Did the bright lights make up for the lack of country life ? |
| 21 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |
| 22 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 23 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 24 | By paying particular attention to texts and images created by women in the visual arts and performance as well as in literature , the book goes some way towards making up for the lack of awareness of women 's art . |
| 25 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |
| 26 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 27 | His flat is modernist and bleak , his clothes are grey , she dresses in red and puts enough flowers in his kitchen to make up for the decimation of the rainforests . |
| 28 | After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team . |
| 29 | For example , he stumbles into this howler on the question of social security as cash , rather than provision in kind : ‘ Social security benefits have been introduced to make up for the withdrawal of more general provision : examples in the UK are free prescriptions ( introduced because prescription charges were introduced ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 30 | This is the time to make up for the imprecision of the life story in Step 1 . |