Example sentences of "up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 5 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 6 | Who actually speaks up for the vulnerable older person ? |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Three year rolling service agreements are to be drawn up for the other directors and senior employees as set out in Appendix II . |
| 9 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 10 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 11 | A HUMID evening in Boston early last summer ; afternoon rain has cleared , and at Fenway Park the lead-off batter for the visiting Baltimore Orioles steps up for the first pitch from the Red Sox . |
| 12 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 13 | He made his Palace debut on Boxing Day , teaming up for the first time with Dickie Dowsett and Ronnie Allen , and helped the Palace romp to a thrilling 3–0 victory over Millwall on a freezing surface . |
| 14 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ Jed said , speaking up for the first time , ‘ at least there were n't any tolling bells in it . ’ |
| 16 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 17 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 18 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 19 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 20 | Ray Hanna takes G–FIRE up for the first time , Elstree , March 14 , 1981. ( via Spencer Flack ) |
| 21 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 22 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 23 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 24 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 25 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 26 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 27 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 28 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 29 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 30 | And as the bridal couple stood up for the first dance , she felt the enormous gulf between their obvious carefree happiness and her present misery . |