Example sentences of "we [am/are] [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have played five matches and not lost a rubber so it shows we are strong enough to be in the finals . |
| 2 | Last year the general assembly gave to the Board of Social Responsibility a task of coordinating the work of the church in this field and we are proud now to be able to report to the general assembly that the work done by the assembly 's various Boards and by numerous local initiatives make the Church of Scotland the nation 's leading provider of services to the victims of H I V and to their families delivering both the most extensive and the most comprehensive service to these people within Scotland . |
| 3 | ‘ We are good enough to be in the top three , but our talented players have to work harder individually and as a unit . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All I know is that we are good enough to be up there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 5 | When a heatwave occurs — unless we are fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but laze around — many people become increasingly bad-tempered . |
| 6 | We are lucky still to be here |
| 7 | And if we are lucky enough to be very welcome , the pitch and sound will be higher and louder still . |
| 8 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 9 | We are unlikely ever to be able to quantify transaction and implementation costs with any certainty . |
| 10 | By the time we are old enough to be surprised at our own cleverness we have forgotten how we acquired it . |