Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 2 | I am sorry not to be present in Cardiff today . |
| 3 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 4 | ‘ I am old enough to be your father , ’ I said to myself as much as to her . |
| 5 | As no doubt everyone knows , I am lucky enough to be the mother of the most lovely baby boy in the whole world . |
| 6 | ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Somehow she found her voice and said faintly , ‘ I do n't think I 'm strong enough to be ravished at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry not to be with you today . |
| 12 | Why , I 'm old enough to be your grandmother ! |
| 13 | ‘ I think I 'm old enough to be young now , ’ said Catriona . |
| 14 | You know what I am , you know I 'm old enough to be your father , I 'm not reliable at all . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm old enough to be forgiven if I tell you that the news did n't sadden me . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm old enough to be your father . ’ |
| 17 | You may say that you could hardly trust me saying it because I 'm wealthy enough to be able to come here from Japan to study . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I 'm lucky not to be paralysed and to have escaped with just a busted nose . ’ |
| 19 | It 's just a sprain , and I 'm lucky enough to be in the care of a top-class physio in Alan Smith . |
| 20 | In 1977 I was fortunate enough to be awarded the Sir Ambrose Fleming Award for services to West Country television . |
| 21 | I was sad not to be able to go back to Fulham for St Cecilia 's Day . |
| 22 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 23 | In later life I was lucky enough to be able to afford flying lessons , even though they cost a fortune at £5 an hour ! |
| 24 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 25 | I usually confined my caddying career to the main British and European season , with the odd foray to the United States or Japan or exotic places like the Philippines if my current boss was lucky enough to be invited , and if I was lucky enough to be invited by my boss . |
| 26 | It is the home of the game and I was lucky enough to be able to mix cricket with my engineering work . |
| 27 | I was lucky enough to be introduced to India 's celebrated cartoonist Mario de Miranda . |
| 28 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 29 | I was lucky enough to be given a Kenneth Smith Scholarship for the 1990 Eagle Ski Club Expedition . |
| 30 | I should just add that I was lucky enough to be selected for the only European Commission sponsored place at the EEB conference . |