Example sentences of "[noun] can make [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 April 's pursuing compensation though no amount of mony can make up for what she 's lost .
2 No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field .
3 This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole .
4 There 's no way money can make up for losing all that ’ .
5 Believing , as fervently as they say they believe in their Almighty , that money can make up for anything , even bad taste and bad manners .
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