Example sentences of "could [vb infin] up for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You could sign up for a series of courses , which you could take at your own pace . |
| 6 | If one wished to do so , one could sign up for the directive while keeping the 1908 legislation in force . |
| 7 | Anthony left instructions that you could get up for a couple of hours if you felt up to it . |