Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see a not very tall man , pleasant enough to look at but a beige man , not very exciting , not very sexual — ’ |
| 2 | Eleanor would have been broad-minded enough to laugh at the whole tale . |
| 3 | Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same . |
| 4 | Ten per cent is a typical mark-up , while industry watchers Romtec believing the trend towards supermarket shopping for hardware will drive this down to stabilise at 4-5 per cent ( ie £40 on a £1,000 sale ) . |
| 5 | My father had helped Margaret during the early years , but directly Dickie had been old enough to board at his preparatory school Margaret had insisted on returning to nursing and becoming sole breadwinner . |
| 6 | In Gillick terms , the ability to make an informed request assumes the child to be old enough to make at least that decision for himself . |
| 7 | When I was foolish enough to laugh at a preposterous and provocative statement made by Mr Dinsdale — who had surely modelled himself on Dickens 's character Mr Bounderby — he gave me a withering look and asked sarcastically : ‘ Is this a reason to laugh ? ’ |
| 8 | The Democratic governor of Arkansas , who easily beat President George Bush in Tuesday 's election , talked to world leaders , including Russian President Boris Yeltsin but was careful not to hint at any policy stances or initiatives . |
| 9 | Be careful not to twist at all just curve . |
| 10 | The vernacular of any way of life can only be absorbed ‘ through the skin ’ by immersing oneself in its people ; and to this end you would be foolish not to spend at least a year ( preferably two ) working on mixed farms in the district in which you hope to settle , making friends and winning the respect of the countrymen who will be your neighbours . |
| 11 | I am too old now to play at any mock repentance . ’ |
| 12 | He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it . |
| 13 | It was impossible not to stare at him all the time . |
| 14 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
| 15 | Some children from Hindu families even attended Sunday school , mainly because there was nothing much else to do at weekends . |
| 16 | There was not much else to look at in the room . |
| 17 | Well when they 're just standing there in a vest and shorts then there is n't much else to look at is there , really ? |
| 18 | He was hard enough to resist at the best times . |
| 19 | It was hard enough to stare at his photograph and make it come to life , but it was impossible to imagine the figure in the picture living in the sort of conditions which Normandin and others had described . |
| 20 | If you 're lucky enough to live at home , or you have your own room in college or good lodgings , you may prefer to study there ( see also Chapter 2 on accommodation ) . |
| 21 | Not for the first time Delaney looked into the eyes that were deep , infathomable pools of green , and at the copper-coloured hair falling around the high smooth cheek bones ; at the small upturned nose and a mouth just large enough to hint at the animal sensuality lying dormant beneath the surface . |
| 22 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 23 | Her eyes moved to the left again to look at the locker . |
| 24 | To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string . |
| 25 | A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times , but one of this size … . |
| 26 | He compares the position with that of a pentathlon athlete , who is good enough to compete at top level in each event separately — along with quite a lot of other people . |
| 27 | If an animal is a parent , it must be good enough to survive at least to adulthood . |
| 28 | He and Andrew Wills were fully tested in their quarter-final by Dennis Baker and former international John Wennington , from Thornaby , who clawed their way back from 17–11 down to level at 18–18 . |
| 29 | SINCE January , when invitations for the Masters were received , those lucky and talented enough to compete at Augusta will have been fine-tuning their games to suit one of the world 's most demanding courses . |
| 30 | The fact that the Australian batting rarely fired on all cylinders either during the series merely served to show-up the large gulf between the two sides , with the home team 's 4–0 triumph not flattering them unduly , although India were unlucky not to win at Sydney , and might have won at Adelaide too had their fielding not let them down . |