Example sentences of "make up for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 2 | Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 16 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 17 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 18 | Whale meat made up for the lack of other sources of protein in the Japanese diet . |
| 19 | 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 ! ’ |
| 20 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In Britain , the ‘ drag-down ’ factor operates ; graduates make up for a shortage of technicians with intermediate skills . |
| 23 | Both make up for the lack of nutrients in the soil by trapping and digesting small insects . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Did the bright lights make up for the lack of country life ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 28 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |