Example sentences of "to make [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 2 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 3 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 4 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |
| 5 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 6 | It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December . |
| 7 | How could you , for instance , put the smarmy , tax-dodging , moonlighting , computer whizz-kid in the same bag as the shoeshine boy trying to make out on the streets of a Third World city ? |