Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be worth investing in a course of vitamin supplements — they ca n't make up for a poor diet but they can provide a useful boost occasionally . |
| 2 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 3 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 4 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 6 | ‘ It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom . |