Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was that merely to be sociable — for her husband 's sake — or should he read something more into it ? |
| 2 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 5 | No worker , he suggested , was clever enough to be able both to perform their own job and to analyse the best way of doing it . |
| 6 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 7 | In later life I was lucky enough to be able to afford flying lessons , even though they cost a fortune at £5 an hour ! |
| 8 | A baby tethered one in the most relentless way , even a mother who was lucky enough to be able to leave her infant in the hands of others . |
| 9 | It is the home of the game and I was lucky enough to be able to mix cricket with my engineering work . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If she was well enough to be nasty , there could n't be much wrong at all . |
| 12 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 13 | He was angry enough to be violent in his defence of her , angry enough to be jealous when she kept out of his way . |
| 14 | But it had taken Duncan Bradford 's vision to persuade his agent that James was gifted enough to be worthy of the expense involved in letting him study medicine . |
| 15 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 18 | I knew it was precious enough to be perilous . |
| 19 | He withheld the signal until the range was close enough to be deadly , and the stocky Welsh ponies were stretching their frenzied necks and rigid nostrils for the impact , and then flung up his arm , and waited for the tremendous thrumming in the air , that maddening , intoxicating sound like a thousand wild geese all taking flight at once . |