Example sentences of "[noun] to make up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , it gives you time to take evasive action — either to build up your savings to make up for any expected shortfall , or to increase your premiums . |
| 2 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 3 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 4 | Sometimes she thought that she and William both had a need to make up for those lost ten years . |
| 5 | I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue . |
| 6 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 7 | Maybe this was my chance to make up for all those little oversights and lapses in the past , which we all have no matter how hard we try to forget or overlook them . |
| 8 | Gimenez , who went the distance before losing to a 36-year-old Roberto Duran in 1987 is relishing his chance to make up for lost time . |
| 9 | Grant was removed from those authorities , so that any increase in spending brought a fall in income and , therefore , implied a further increase in rates to make up for that loss . |
| 10 | However , anyone who is on the move , under stress or is likely to skip meals should think about taking a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement to make up for any deficiencies in diet . |
| 11 | They found that , although it did make a difference in a few cases , most babies got enough iron from solid food to make up for any loss through drinking cow 's milk . |
| 12 | He set off again almost as soon as he had returned to Hobart to make up for lost time on an overland expedition to Launceston and George Town , 60 miles from Hobart on the North Coast of the island . |
| 13 | The executive Board approved drawings , equivalent to 468,9000,000 special drawing rights ( about US $635 million ) , under its compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) in order to make up for anticipated balance-of-payments deficits caused by higher oil prices and lower exports and Gulf remittances . |
| 14 | Babies have very immature immune systems and rely upon breast milk to make up for this deficiency as it contains protective factors . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time . |
| 16 | It would n't be realistic to expect Christmas to make up for three flat years , ’ commented Sue Butterworth at Silver Moon Bookshop on the Charing Cross Road . |