Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declarer was alert enough to put this information to good use . |
| 2 | And his feeling of intense satisfaction at this conclusion was only because he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision . |
| 3 | Table 5.1. below gives some performance figures for the HWIM and RM1 lexical access components . |
| 4 | He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety . |
| 5 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 6 | Wycliffe walked on towards the town , but he avoided the waterfront and returned instead by the main street , which was narrow enough to give some shelter from the gale . |
| 7 | But that only posed another question : Why so frightened ? |
| 8 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 9 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 10 | No state is strong enough to play this role solo . |
| 11 | She carried a small basket in her hand containing food for her frugal evening meal , although the rancid smells around her were strong enough to diminish any desire to eat — she had not yet grown sufficiently accustomed to them to ignore them . |
| 12 | But none of these was strong enough to make much difference to the general picture of eighteenth-century Europe as overwhelmingly monarchical . |
| 13 | You will definitely take the odd blow to the mid-section so your muscles should be strong enough to absorb some impact energy . |
| 14 | Julia , delighted to see that the affection between them was solid enough to allow such teasing , said , as though she were considering some knotty legal problem : |
| 15 | In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit . |
| 16 | The duration of this wait may often lead to the overflow record being processed more rapidly than prime data track records because processing time will often be low enough to allow this record to be processed as soon as it is located . |
| 17 | The British vigorously argued this case , and rejected proposals for some looser arrangement , such as a new version of Lend-Lease to help the Europeans rebuild their defences . |
| 18 | I do help if I can , but I also point out to them that the help is to members of the ( and I send them details and a membership application form — but this rarely has any effect ; I do n't even get an acknowledgment as a rule ) . |
| 19 | This effectively disallows any subject being discussed at an Apex conference . |
| 20 | This effectively allows any presentation graphics program on the Macintosh to talk to the professional film recorders such as the QCR and beyond by converting the PICT files generated on the Macintosh into the native language of the film recorder . |
| 21 | This effectively destroyed any chance of progress at a crucial stage in the negotiations , it meant the collapse of the so-called ‘ Finlandisation ’ option . |
| 22 | This apparently had little impact on the extent of these intra- and extra-mural zones , though it may have encouraged the enhanced development of the central area in the third and fourth centuries . |
| 23 | But this only raises another question : how do we know a specific presence when we see one ? |
| 24 | This obviously saves much time and effort as well as allowing for the creation of more imaginatively produced work . |
| 25 | This obviously places any nominee director in an invidious position . |
| 26 | As a result the viewing audience may feel alienated and become bored or hostile unless the original lecture is interesting enough to overcome this reaction . |
| 27 | Topaz had Amossy 's fierce , unyielding spirit and had n't been broken by the indifference and contempt shewn to her since she was old enough to understand such treatment . |
| 28 | If you are foolish enough to close this binder whilst holding it upside down on your lap , I am in no way responsible for any damage that it causes . |
| 29 | Off-exchange perhaps means any transaction which is not on-exchange ( as defined ) and , if so , it includes transactions on an exchange which is not an RIE or DIE ; this result would be similar to the money market exemption in s 43 of the FSA , since that includes transactions on any exchange that is not an RIE . |
| 30 | The Act of 1985 only provides that residence must be ‘ with the tenant . ’ |