Example sentences of "[be] made [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 2 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
| 3 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 5 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 6 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 7 | Time will put everything right , unkind words , ill-judged behaviour — stupidity , cruelty , it can all be made up for , cancelled out later . |
| 8 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 9 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 10 | A better case can be made out for its subject being Salmo salar : the Atlantic salmon , than for Orpheus ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , a case can be made out for cyclically adjusting such figures so that the long-term trend of unemployment may be observed . |
| 13 | Yet an argument could be made out for Haversian bone being linked with large body-size rather than thermoregulation techniques . |
| 14 | It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’ |
| 15 | The most that can be said is that a good case can be made out for so doing ; law-abiding spectators would probably be sympathetic , depending upon the outcome . |
| 16 | A case can be made out for the 1918 election as a Unionist victory rather than a coalition victory . |
| 17 | Despite recent insights then , a respectable case can be made out for some form of intervention in some natural monopoly cases . |
| 18 | However , it is necessary to consider this in a little more detail , for it might be argued that a rather better case could be made out for the materialist theory than the dismissive remarks of the preceding section seem to suggest , provided certain additional facts are taken into consideration . |
| 19 | There was a reasonable case to be made out for keeping her away from Nice . |
| 20 | But there was no defence to be made out for the people she 'd met today . |
| 21 | I believe a good case could be made out for saying EITHER : |
| 22 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 23 | His limited means , however , were made up for by the passion of his yearning to collect . |
| 24 | The out of centre position is made up for by the excellent rates Amsterdam Travel Service have specially negotiated at this hotel . |
| 25 | Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows . |
| 26 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |
| 27 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 28 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 29 | But as he was finishing his second pint , and wondering again whether to go up and see one or other of the Mrs Machins , his mind was made up for him . |
| 30 | The number of statistical staff at the 650 was indeed cut by about a third , but as the Pickford report points out , this was made up for by greater use of computers . |