Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |