Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't mean you 've got to , should , does n't mean you 've got to have a loud voice , it just means you 've got to speak , speak clearly and slowly enough to be clear . |
| 2 | There was altogether less to be frightened of . |
| 3 | I particularly like the way the teacher 's emphasising that it 's sometimes all right to be rude to adults . |
| 4 | He 's the young man who 's taking me to the concert and I have n't known him long enough to be late . |
| 5 | In both countries , a significant fraction is of ‘ unknown ’ origin or ‘ background ’ , in the air long enough to be difficult to assign to any one source . |
| 6 | I positioned myself in the entrance to the doorway sufficiently enough to be able to see through the er the window we have in the shield erm to see quickly into the room to see er what 's in the room and if there are any persons in the room . |
| 7 | About ten minutes later , we decide we 've cooled down sufficiently to be able to leave the men 's room and go back into the restaurant . |
| 8 | The checks of his three-piece suit were large and loud enough to be migraine-inducing , and the tie , although defiantly striped , was not one she recognised . |
| 9 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 10 | She 'd been in the business long enough not to be surprised by anything the intelligence services got up to . |
| 11 | He wants so desperately to be vital , but he is being terribly dishonest with himself . |
| 12 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 13 | It is a ledger , the size and solidity of an old-fashioned accounts book , with broken corners and an air of belonging to that grey period which is too far gone to be new but not yet far enough off to be old . |
| 14 | But adaptation was considered only ever to be superficial . |
| 15 | Although they had been unable so far to be sure whether or not either neutrons or gamma rays were being emitted from the cell , if fusion was indeed occurring then there should be evidence within the cathode — helium or tritium should be present , though in very small quantities . |
| 16 | Therefore , all that is necessary for a species to acquire a culture is that its members should be capable of learning and memory , and meet other members of their own species sufficiently often to be able to learn things from them . |
| 17 | I have changed enough now to be shocked by the ease with which I let go of my Black identity , situated as it was in my real subordination on the basis of race and class , in exchange for an illusory equality with white men on the sexual plane . |
| 18 | The reader will recall that I argued that this meant satisfactorily surmounting the three stages of psychosexual growth which psychoanalysis discovered long ago to be typical of most individuals in our culture . |
| 19 | It was found that end-users were able to master the basic commands of the interface sufficiently well to be able to retrieve references on search topics within their fields of interest . |
| 20 | It is therefore a problem for the homoeopathic practitioner to learn these pictures , many of which are somewhat similar , sufficiently well to be able to match accurately each patient with the correct remedy . |
| 21 | Mind you , I 've erm far enough forward to be able to get |
| 22 | At any rate he took it sufficiently seriously to be anxious to resign and retreat to Worcestershire immediately , without waiting to see what forces might crystallize around him , and to make tentative plans for spending the winter abroad . |
| 23 | To be a layman , even to be anticlerical , is not necessarily to be irreligious . |
| 24 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 25 | Not enough to be offensive , but enough to make the older woman sparkle in return . |
| 26 | It is not enough to be able to translate a topic into themes : ability to see a theme in turn translated back into action is a necessity . |
| 27 | Certainly not as bright as here , er sufficient light for me to be able to see that there were people in there and to differentiate between a man and a woman but er at that time not enough to be able to clearly define anybody . |
| 28 | As a comfortable pear-shape , I was delighted to read Why it 's not in to be thin ( August SHE ) . |
| 29 | She went on talking and I half-listened — just enough to be able to make a response when she stopped . |
| 30 | In animal studies , UV-B radiation has been shown not only to be carcinogenic , but also to alter the response of the immunological system ; this results in impeded recognition of a cancerous tumour as a foreign body . |