Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was clever enough to realise that he was defending the indefensible . |
| 2 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |
| 3 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 4 | Acting was unsatisfying ; he was clear-headed enough to recognise that he was not particularly talented , and he was permanently detached from the narcissism of the self-styled Glamour Capital of the World . |
| 5 | He had never been in a wood in his life ; but he was sharp enough to know that he might hide in a bush , or swarm up a tree … ‘ . ) |
| 6 | He was intelligent enough to realize that his father would never allow him much freedom in the business and so he started his own training centre at Heald Grove , Rusholme . |
| 7 | He was intelligent enough to understand that his search for Elsie was , in part , an escape from his own family . |
| 8 | He was shrewd enough to appreciate that here was someone who needed to be coaxed , not coerced . |
| 9 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
| 10 | He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything . |
| 11 | He was wily enough to recognise that he did need his stepson ; more than David himself would ever know ; or at least needed him until his own son could be found and persuaded home . |
| 12 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 13 | Surely he was bright enough to realise that her deliberate snub meant that she did n't want to see him again ? |
| 14 | He wished he was big enough to forget that she was a fat young woman with nothing about her but her voice . |
| 15 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 16 | For he was realistic enough to recognize that even if the Greek distinction between the ‘ pure ’ and the ‘ useful ’ was ultimately illusory , still the kind of class-division to which it had given rise was deeply engrained . |