Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parents who had n't heard the news brought their children to school as normal only to be turned away . |
| 2 | I 'm spineless enough to be steered away from the obvious , safe , acclaimed designer label choices I had in mind , and it 's already started . |
| 3 | Stringfellow was an outstanding designer and builder of small lightweight steam engines , but his model aeroplanes suffered from the twin disadvantages of being too large to be fully tested indoors , and not stable enough to be tested out of doors . |
| 4 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 5 | Do n't dither here ; it 's steep enough to be noticed very quickly , and the moves back left above the overlap need presence of mind . |
| 6 | Some seeds are light enough to be blown away but bigger seeds can only be shifted by animals and once again plants produce special food as payment for the job . |
| 7 | It may have been in the early 630s , when Oswiu was in his late teens , that he married Riemmelth , granddaughter of Rhun ( HB ch. 57 ) , for he had a son , Ealhfrith , and a daughter , Ealhflaed , old enough to be married c. 650 ( HE 111 , 21 ) . |
| 8 | I started crying and saying that he was only a minor , that he was n't old enough to be taken away , and had n't done anything . |
| 9 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |
| 10 | He was not foolish enough to be taken in by such tales ! |
| 11 | But the questions on which he focused attention — in particular , the permanence of a restricted group of personnel in power , and the tendency of this not to be related directly and specifically to economic structure — remain a central part of modern critiques of Marxist analysis . |
| 12 | Unlike earlier pop stars , they have been careful not to be ripped off — they have a hand in the business side , share production , invest their earnings wisely . |
| 13 | Burmans , having been deceived by the promises of the Japanese about independence , would be very careful not to be deceived again . |
| 14 | And she was careful not to be found out ; her recklessness , she says was only apparent : she always thought of Anna . |
| 15 | And if , at first , she had had to remind herself to be careful not to be found out , deceit was becoming second nature to her . |
| 16 | In the meantime , we would be grateful not to be shoved off in her direction by campaigns of misinformation and innuendo by the uninformed . |
| 17 | It must be simple enough to be used efficiently by non planning professionals , but detailed enough to produce meaningful results . |
| 18 | Very few teachers are qualified to make assessments on the basis of linguistic criteria , and Rosen and Burgess 's categories were in themselves vague enough to be interpreted differently by different teachers . |
| 19 | While I 'm on a journey I 'm always looking for cones and sometimes I 'm fortunate enough to be held up at traffic works . |
| 20 | The final condemnation of the change is that no-one consulted formally these top men in the sport before passing the show-stopping law and , furthermore , that the lawmakers left so much still to be ironed out . |
| 21 | But before he 's even fit enough to be flown home , doctors say he 'll have to spend at least a fortnight in hospital . |
| 22 | While anyone can be unfortunate enough to be struck down by an unexpected illness , your future good health is largely in your own hands . |
| 23 | ( Langley is also a member of Animal Aid , an organisation with a radical image opposed to the use of animals in any research , who was unfortunate enough to be beaten up in 1987 by a member of an even more extreme splinter-group . ) |
| 24 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 25 | Have letters large enough to be seen easily from a distance . |
| 26 | More than one researcher abandoned the field with the argument that if the biochemical changes really ‘ coded for ’ memory in the brain then they would be too small to be measured , and if they were large enough to be measured then they probably were n't anything to do with memory . |
| 27 | In a pique against Harlequins last Saturday he flung the ball at the opposition tighthead prop and was lucky not to be sent off . |
| 28 | Simon was lucky not to be sent off . |
| 29 | RUSSELL HOULT conceded the first goals of his professional career and was lucky not to be sent off as Leicester crashed out of the Anglo Italian Cup . |
| 30 | If the patient gets to the end of the word having named all the letters correctly , the word is likely then to be read aloud correctly . |