Example sentences of "[be] make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time will put everything right , unkind words , ill-judged behaviour — stupidity , cruelty , it can all be made up for , cancelled out later . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A better case can be made out for its subject being Salmo salar : the Atlantic salmon , than for Orpheus ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , a case can be made out for cyclically adjusting such figures so that the long-term trend of unemployment may be observed . |
| 7 | Yet an argument could be made out for Haversian bone being linked with large body-size rather than thermoregulation techniques . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A case can be made out for the 1918 election as a Unionist victory rather than a coalition victory . |
| 11 | Despite recent insights then , a respectable case can be made out for some form of intervention in some natural monopoly cases . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a reasonable case to be made out for keeping her away from Nice . |
| 14 | But there was no defence to be made out for the people she 'd met today . |
| 15 | I believe a good case could be made out for saying EITHER : |