Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the kitchen made over for Joan . |
| 2 | Peter endowed the occasion with an atmosphere of reconciliation : the fact that he and Kate were together somehow made up for Abbotsfield ; there was no longer any need to feel guilty . |
| 3 | Much of the farming was fairly traditional but the premium received from quality products often made up for lack of weight in calves and lambs . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 5 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 6 | It was made out for £2m from the Football Trust , but should have been £1m . |
| 7 | The case that is usually made out for retention is that the House of Lords nevertheless discharges a valuable constitutional function especially in the processing of uncontroversial Bills and the revision of Bills passed , perhaps with undue haste and lack of consideration , by the House of Commons . |
| 8 | In other words , technology does not make up for Europe 's high labour costs . |
| 9 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 10 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 11 | No no , amenity-wise , you 're okay , but I mean amenities does n't make up for sort of living standards you 've got , does it ? |
| 12 | Might make up for Piers Morrison . |
| 13 | Rapid shooting may give many frames , but quantity will never make up for quality . |
| 14 | TRAINER John Gosden made up for Brier Creek 's narrow Ebor defeat when Badawi took the Andy Capp Handicap at York yesterday , writes Carles Fawcus . |
| 15 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 16 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 17 | Gloucester had missed four penalties … but made up for things with an opening try … as full-back Martin Roberts picked up a tap penalty and bulldozed his way through to score … |
| 18 | Welcome to Ireland , and their comfortable , confusing , delightful brand of hospitality — And did they always keep this room made up for guests ? |
| 19 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 20 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 21 | There is no road going through which makes it fairly quiet and peaceful , though low flying aircraft and farm machinery make up for traffic noise . |
| 22 | The steward is said to have issued the boys with a receipt , made out for £5 and indicating that it was for the journey from Stonehouse to Gloucester . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you want the cheque made out for cash ? ’ |
| 24 | Er against the cost of government changes so this last part of this budget is actually the cost of making up for government cuts and section of and we 're disappointed that Conservatives decided to cut the section they were funding for next year . |
| 25 | The curriculum is not seen in terms of constant amelioration of handicapping conditions , but rather in terms of making up for deficiencies which are constantly imputed to the child . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that some , if not all , of this initial stimulus work can be recorded and made available individually for refreshing the memory , checking particular phenomena or making up for absence . |
| 27 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 28 | The brickyard had only a few left so those around the leaping dolphins would be used as a ‘ brick bank ’ to make up for breakages . |
| 29 | Such good management involves proper drainage , maintenance of a neutral pH , a balance between grazing and cutting , mixed stocking , controlled grazing and resting , the avoidance of physical damage ( particularly in bad weather ) , and the return of organic matter to the soil to make up for hay or silage removed . |
| 30 | The body may attempt to make up for sleep lost at night by naps in the day , which can sometimes disturb the body 's natural rhythm . |