Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Two simple planes connect the sunken eye socket to the forehead , and a small disk extends below from cheekbone to the inside corner of the eye , while the jaw , the nose and the section from nose to mouth and from mouth to chin are each clearly defined . |
| 32 | Under the 1924 Constitution the Republic has an executive President and a National Congress consisting of a 120-member Chamber of Deputies and a 22-member Senate ; President and Congress are each directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 33 | ‘ If our girls are enterprising enough to find unique positions for themselves , who are we to object ? ’ |
| 34 | In true body-building style , the effects are cumulative so start your routine now ! |
| 35 | I am old enough to remember being an underdog . |
| 36 | I am old enough to remember the clean streets , the neat parks , the dignity of Carmel Road , the sedate trolley buses , the low rates , the LNER trains which ran to time , the prosperous water , gas and electricity works and the big crowds at Third Division north games at Feethams . |
| 37 | " In our new austerity , I am old enough to have money . " |
| 38 | Madame replied : I am old enough to know better . |
| 39 | I thought , pleased : I am old enough to admit this now . |
| 40 | Unfortunately , I am old enough to recall , vividly , the years before ‘ gay liberation ’ was ever heard of in Scotland . |
| 41 | There are few well designed evaluative studies that examine how different symptoms respond to an intervention and under what circumstances . |
| 42 | To date there are few well established risk factors for dementia of the Alzheimers disease type . |
| 43 | There are few naturally occurring organisms which have the ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere and those that can are prokaryotes ( organisms with no membrane separating the DNA-containing organelles from the rest of the cell ) . |
| 44 | There are few publicly quoted companies where the majority of voting shares are not held by families or institutions closely linked with existing management . |
| 45 | And there are few enough references to international hostilities in the novels of Jane Austen , or signs of distress in the great landscape and portrait paintings of the age . |
| 46 | If the garden does not already have them , then you will be able to erect fences that are high enough to deter intruders and give you privacy of course . |
| 47 | The finance branch simply wants charges that are high enough to recoup the costs of building and running the plant . |
| 48 | Their toughness and wounds are high enough to enable them to get away without a shield . |
| 49 | Though Arians are infamously impatient , they can be cool customers when the stakes are high enough to make them concentrate . |
| 50 | In the short-run , firms will temporarily reduce output if the price level falls and will temporarily produce in excess of the full employment level of output if prices are high enough to make this profitable . |
| 51 | They usually pose no problems but sometimes the upper tushes are high enough to interfere with the bit which should be especially considered if the horse is to wear a double bridle . |
| 52 | The judge in making an award of damages will know that a payment into court has been made , but will not know in what sum and so can not ensure that the damages awarded are high enough to beat the payment into court , if minded to make an award similar to that which the defendant has offered . |
| 53 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |
| 54 | Horses are sensible enough to shy away at the sound of a hiss . |
| 55 | A total of 65 industrial premises are empty now compared with 30 two years ago , and Mr Owen estimates if they were all occupied around 2,780 new jobs would be created . |
| 56 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 57 | ‘ His fees are steep enough to start with and two days out of ten means we 're losing twenty per cent of our course . ’ |
| 58 | Do they want to become MPs for the money ( some , it seems hard to credit , apparently are dim enough to think so ) , for the glamour ( one glance at the crumpled dandruff-laden figure putting the question should disabuse them of that idea ) , for the influence ? |
| 59 | Where geologically instantaneous events such as earthquakes are concerned , they are rigid enough to transmit the shock waves , like any solid . |
| 60 | The skeleton of all echinoderms except the sea cucumbers is a relatively strong assembly of calcite plates ; the animals are built from an interlocking mosaic of such plates , and mostly the skeletons are rigid enough to have a high chance of fossilization . |