Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Oh Mark Tad has lost , a lot of ground to make up for Britain |
| 3 | If you want to make love more than once , said the notes — and with years of celibacy to make up for , I certainly did — it would be a good idea to insert another dollop of cream . |
| 4 | Tell you what , I 'll buy you a cup of coffee to make up for my bad temper before . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 6 | She relates how she , like many other miners , wives , sells foodstuffs in the street in order to make up for what her husband 's wage does not cover in necessities . |
| 7 | Taken to extremes , it will cause the person who feels inadequate to become a workaholic , compelling him to take on more and more in order to make up for his own shortcomings . |
| 8 | I travelled back to Athens , partly in order to make up for my ignominious run in the European Indoor there in 1985 . |
| 9 | A two week tour of Europe was organised for late-June/July in order to make up for the shows cancelled at the end of last year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm go without lunch to make up for it . |
| 12 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 13 | The Government says that many scholarships will be on offer to make up for the charges , but surely this means that only rich people and the very brightest of the less well-off will be able to afford a degree . |
| 14 | This internationally acclaimed programme has mobilised the Vietnamese people to plant at least 160,000 hectares of trees per year to make up for the loss of some 2.2 million hectares of forest and farmland destroyed during the war , as well as the country 's current forest losses . |
| 15 | I decided to economise on decor to make up for the expense of the filter . |