Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was disappointed not to be accepted into the Methodist Ministry but he was welcomed by the Anglican Church . |
| 2 | He was disappointed not to be offered a place at RADA . |
| 3 | As for his Greek readers , the only certain fact is that he was famous enough to be copied — or summarized — by his younger contemporary Diodorus . |
| 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 | He was content just to be a part of the pack , and Ollie was prepared to allow this , providing he did n't get too close to the family . |
| 6 | But he was stable enough to be transferred from the town 's general hospital to the specialist Walton centre for neurology and neurosurgery in Liverpool , where he remains on a ventilator . |
| 7 | He was fortunate not to be in prison for debt for , on the tour of British prisons which he made in 1812 , James Neild of The Thatched House Society , found debtors were discriminated against . |
| 8 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 9 | He was good enough to be in six Walker Cup teams , sufficiently well heeled to be of independent means and later a Captain of the Royal and Ancient . |
| 10 | He was good enough to be invited for trials by Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 11 | What one can read between the lines was that Jackie was n't yet a champion , that he knew he was good enough to be one and that the pressures and opportunities to make money were too good to be passed up . |
| 12 | He was old enough to be Phil 's father . |
| 13 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 14 | He was old enough to be her father , and she convinced herself that she was suffering from too much imagination . |
| 15 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 16 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 17 | Although , she thought with uncharitable spitefulness , he was old enough to be her father . |
| 18 | He was old enough to be her father ! |
| 19 | ‘ He was lucky not to be in a concentration camp or the Todt Organisation . ’ |
| 20 | Police told him he was lucky not to be ‘ plunged ’ — knifed . |
| 21 | The client invariably had to make up his own mind , that is if he was lucky enough to be alerted to the exact opportunity . |
| 22 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 23 | Yeah , we need to talk about this , because I mean when I saw he was upset by the treatment he got from I presume it was before , the way she dealt with him erm and he believed you know , he was big enough to be dealt with by the national accounts department . |
| 24 | He was angry enough to be violent in his defence of her , angry enough to be jealous when she kept out of his way . |
| 25 | Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot . |