Example sentences of "[adv] make up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 2 | Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 5 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 6 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 7 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is worth many thousands of Australian dollars so that will partly make up for the disappointment . |
| 9 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 10 | But experience can often make up for a yard or two of pace . |
| 11 | It may be worth investing in a course of vitamin supplements — they ca n't make up for a poor diet but they can provide a useful boost occasionally . |
| 12 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 13 | However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity . |
| 14 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 15 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 16 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 17 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
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| 19 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 20 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 21 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 22 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 23 | Never make up for a |