Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 2 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 3 | The tutorial supplied is excellent and more than makes up for the formal style of the manuals . |
| 4 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |
| 5 | 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 . |