Example sentences of "to make [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To make up for a late start , the government this year announced it would make available £125 million of grants to push industry into the robot age . |
| 3 | The Britons are trying to keep ahead of Norwegian lawyer Erling Kagge , who hopes to make up for a late start in bad weather . |
| 4 | Wales will be anxious to make up for a disappointing start to the season — their opening home game against Herefordshire was a total wash-out and they suffered a one run defeat against Shropshire . |
| 5 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing . |
| 8 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 9 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 10 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 11 | ( I even fancied that the prop-wash from our full power had blown the dinghy back a bit to make up for the slight delay in the drop ) . |
| 12 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 13 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 14 | The largely working-class suburbs pay higher rates for shared services to make up for the high percentage of Detroit residents who default . |
| 15 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 16 | He persuaded her to eat a little fish to make up for the missing protein . |
| 17 | Although , in terms of volume or profitability , such discoveries can not hope to make up for the fading glory of the state 's North Slope field , daily Alaskan production might fall by only a few hundred thousand barrels over the next decade , rather than dwindling away , as some had suggested . |
| 18 | Striving to make up for the considerable loss of all-rounder Jonathan Barnes , who is now a County League professional , Darlington RA have signed Australian Troy Dixon as their professional . |
| 19 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 20 | OK , so he drops the charm at every commercial break often deserting a guest to make straight for the waiting make-up girls . |