Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1977 I was fortunate enough to be awarded the Sir Ambrose Fleming Award for services to West Country television . |
| 2 | I was sad not to be able to go back to Fulham for St Cecilia 's Day . |
| 3 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 4 | In later life I was lucky enough to be able to afford flying lessons , even though they cost a fortune at £5 an hour ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is the home of the game and I was lucky enough to be able to mix cricket with my engineering work . |
| 8 | I was lucky enough to be introduced to India 's celebrated cartoonist Mario de Miranda . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was lucky enough to be given a Kenneth Smith Scholarship for the 1990 Eagle Ski Club Expedition . |
| 11 | I should just add that I was lucky enough to be selected for the only European Commission sponsored place at the EEB conference . |
| 12 | Well it was at night and I mean I was lucky enough to be working which is a thing that 's probably accounted for saving a lot of people . |
| 13 | Following the est the establishment of the public services section , I was lucky enough to be a delegate at the conference held in April . |
| 14 | Unfortunately living in Ireland I do n't see much of the team but I was lucky enough to be in Southampton a few weeks ago to see them beat Southampton about the head a little . |
| 15 | I was lucky enough to be offered this house to rent , so I jumped at the chance . |
| 16 | I was lucky enough to be one of the ten . |
| 17 | ‘ I was lucky enough to be one of the extras . |
| 18 | I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did . |
| 19 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 20 | By the time I was old enough to be officially admitted to ‘ X ’ certificate performances the ‘ sixties had dawned and La Dolce Vita . |
| 21 | I felt my age ascending as his dropped : I was old enough to be his mother . |
| 22 | I was careful not to be as blatant with Émile . |
| 23 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 24 | But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view . |
| 25 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 26 | If you were lucky enough to be able to pay it then you had the dividend that came along with that . |
| 27 | You were fit enough to be out on a country walk at seven-thirty this morning . |
| 28 | If she was well enough to be nasty , there could n't be much wrong at all . |
| 29 | However , she was successful enough to be able to present annual displays by her pupils from 1916 and to show them in other towns , too , from 1923 . |
| 30 | ‘ She was lucky not to be hurt and so was the driver of the vehicle , considering the distance he skidded and the strength with which he had to apply his brakes , ’ Mrs. Brooks added . |