Example sentences of "make up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 2 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 3 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 4 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 5 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 6 | As lovers they were not exactly vibrant , but their voices and Lehar 's music more than made up for that . |
| 7 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 8 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 9 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 11 | Emotional maturation is arrested during the active phase of addictive disease and therefore the counsellor who is in recovery will need to have made up for this lost time for emotional development . |
| 12 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 13 | In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation . |
| 14 | But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman 's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs . |
| 15 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 16 | I urge those on both Front Benches to reflect on how they can make up for that democratic lack . |
| 17 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 18 | She took the flower-filled trug from Dr Neil , admired the blooms , adding briskly , ‘ Come along , McAllister ; you might as well make up for lost time , ’ and all three of them walked into the parlour , Matey and McAllister of necessity , since it was their only indoor access to the kitchen . |
| 19 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 20 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 21 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 22 | The love nest he had conjured out of so little would make up for all her pain . |
| 23 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 24 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 25 | A pine or oak refectory table , forming an island unit in the middle of the room , would make up for this . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , there have been no social events this year hopefully we can make up for this in nineteen ninety four . |
| 27 | However , Benzie felt that issuance by important European issuers such as banks , industrial companies , mortgage institutions and to a lesser extent governments could make up for these . |
| 28 | Owners should make up for any lost socialising time with large dogs because , while lack of socialisation can mean problems for any dog , the big boys are that much more of a handful in later life . |
| 29 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 30 | More of one may make up for less of another in some circumstances . |