Example sentences of "[adv] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better to be exactly right first time . |
| 2 | In bad organizations the objectives are decided unilaterally , very often as a result of a political trading-off process at the board and at other levels , and are perceived by those below to be quite unrealistic and impossible of achievement . |
| 3 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 4 | Whilst most bryozoa require microscopic examination , a few form colonies large and distinctive enough to be easily recognizable . |
| 5 | Although indentation testing as a measure of elastic modulus is not well known as a laboratory test method it is the basis of many hardness tests used in industry particularly for softer materials such as rubbers , where the indentation made under a standard load is large enough to be easily measurable . |
| 6 | Hence it would be necessary to draft a new housing repair code in terms specific enough to be clearly understandable … but also containing a wide enough range of topics to be considered so as to ensure that the law is sufficiently flexible to cover the greatest number of housing repair problems … |
| 7 | The boys were growing up so fast , but they were still young enough to be intensely impatient at any delay in the opening of the presents , and Dad must have worked hard this morning to persuade them to wait . |
| 8 | The AcerPac 450 is certainly cheap enough to be commercially viable at £2,000 ; and this with margins ‘ in excess of 20% ’ — a benefit of manufacturing in Taiwan . |
| 9 | To most of those who knew him Henry was just eccentric enough to be terrifyingly normal , and even his carefully calculated bitterness , the quality of which , on the whole , he was most proud , had become , in early middle age , a Nice Dry Sense of Humour . |
| 10 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 11 | The number of signatories to the letter — and up to 50 other House Democrats might agree with its terms , as well as perhaps 25–30 of the 56 Democratic senators — means that a ‘ UN ’ resolution could pass Congress only with a majority small enough to be politically unacceptable , and might well fail . |
| 12 | If you are lucky enough to be fairly wealthy or if some of the points mentioned in connection with recent Budget changes give you genuine cause to wonder whether you are taking advantage of the concessions available to you , you should talk to an accountant . |
| 13 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 15 | Amzallag says that to be successful ‘ it is not enough to be technically good . |
| 16 | To be effective , market segments must be clearly identifiable and substantial enough to be potentially profitable . |
| 17 | ‘ Here ’ was a small Cotswold town , small enough to be delightfully picturesque and unspoiled , large enough to boast its own cottage hospital . |
| 18 | You felt you were n't good enough to be anywhere nice ! |
| 19 | you 're young enough to be so impressed by it . |
| 20 | Lévi-Strauss ' attack , together with Sartre 's own theoretical difficulties which have already been charted , was effective enough to be quite devastating to the project of the Critique — which was never completed . |
| 21 | One was an old woman , who was nearly always drunk , and the other was a busy local doctor , who was not paid enough to be very interested in Oliver 's survival . |
| 22 | And if we are lucky enough to be very welcome , the pitch and sound will be higher and louder still . |
| 23 | The sets that Were built showed another advantage of conservatism in that , despite some initial trouble with 60MW sets , they settled down to be more reliable than the engineers counted on . |
| 24 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 25 | said he believed we had all to be constantly critical of ourselves in AEA . |
| 26 | I do n't think so to be perfectly honest |
| 27 | The insistence on specificity ( both of the science and of its object ) and its basis in a differential strategy proved not only to be enormously productive and adaptable , but also remarkably consistent . |
| 28 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 29 | Only to be quite honest I pick up some stuff and mainly now the basics we get free . |
| 30 | The book is also an attempt to link together and blend theory , policy and practice in the belief that well-informed policy and practice are likely not only to be more sensitive to the realities of clients ' lives and needs , but also more cost effective in the long term . |