Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 2 | I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff . |
| 3 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 4 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 5 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 6 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 7 | PERSONAL liability of £250,000 to £1 million is advisable to cover you for the legal liability of injuring someone or damaging their property , particularly as insurers report an increase in such claims . |
| 8 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 9 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 10 | The seventeen pensioners who were able to join us for the annual get-together enjoyed themselves immensely and are already looking forward to next year 's trip ! |
| 11 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 12 | They 're liable to confiscate it for the further entertainment of customs officers . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |