Example sentences of "up for the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 3 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 4 | The signs are that he is prepared to sign up for the emerging versions of both political and monetary union . |
| 5 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |