Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most spiders have eight eyes , although only two of them are sophisticated enough to create a picture of the scene . |
| 2 | But if you start making proposals to Martha Pascoe on the strength of the fortune I been good enough to share with you , you can think again , 'cos you 'll have Harry Pascoe to content with . |
| 3 | I am delighted therefore to add my congratulations to those honoured by the British Safety Council for the practical steps they have taken to create safer places of work . ’ |
| 4 | Part of that rally — and I am immodest enough to think a not unimportant part — was to enlist the services of my partner John Montgomerie ( Monty ) and myself to assist in preparing their answer to the consultative document . |
| 5 | She knows I am good enough to make it , you have just got to believe in yourself . ’ |
| 6 | I am impressed tonight to see how much we agree about the position there and on the need for much stronger action than has been taken so far . |
| 7 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 8 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 9 | I am proud now to have Greek and Italian and English blood and even some Celtic blood . |
| 10 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 11 | I am reminded of the sincerity of your faith a faith which was the light in your your grandmother and Eunice your mother before you and which I am confident now lives in you . |
| 12 | ‘ Please say that you will agree , will at least let me try to earn my own living , find out if I am strong enough to do so — not go back to being useless , merely a symbol of Papa 's wealth , not really his or your daughter . ’ |
| 13 | On the third day , I am strong enough to wash and do my laundry . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |
| 15 | I am pleased also to tell the House that the United Kingdom is sending £20 million worth of animal feed aid to St. Petersburg so that livestock need not be slaughtered this winter . |
| 16 | I am pleased also to announce a total of more than £6.5 million industrial investment by a further four companies , either expanding , modernising or setting up operations in Wales . |
| 17 | I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque . |
| 18 | I am cynical enough to suspect that it probably happens , and it vividly illustrates the point about equipment improving while its net effectiveness stands still ( and its costs increase ) . |
| 19 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 20 | I am vain enough to want to look good , but not to style my hair and paint my toenails . |
| 21 | I am conventional enough to dislike appearing anywhere in unsuitable clothes . |
| 22 | I am old enough to remember being an underdog . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , I am old enough to recall , vividly , the years before ‘ gay liberation ’ was ever heard of in Scotland . |
| 25 | I thought , pleased : I am old enough to admit this now . |
| 26 | Madame replied : I am old enough to know better . |
| 27 | " In our new austerity , I am old enough to have money . " |
| 28 | But I am old-fashioned enough to dislike hearing it flung about in railway carriages by mixed school parties . |
| 29 | I wish that pressure in the House would prove enough , but I am realist enough to know that change — real change — will only come now if we push from every side . ’ |
| 30 | I am big enough to take the stick . |