Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] enough to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1977 I was fortunate enough to be awarded the Sir Ambrose Fleming Award for services to West Country television . |
| 2 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 3 | In later life I was lucky enough to be able to afford flying lessons , even though they cost a fortune at £5 an hour ! |
| 4 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 5 | I usually confined my caddying career to the main British and European season , with the odd foray to the United States or Japan or exotic places like the Philippines if my current boss was lucky enough to be invited , and if I was lucky enough to be invited by my boss . |
| 6 | It is the home of the game and I was lucky enough to be able to mix cricket with my engineering work . |
| 7 | I was lucky enough to be introduced to India 's celebrated cartoonist Mario de Miranda . |
| 8 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 9 | I was lucky enough to be given a Kenneth Smith Scholarship for the 1990 Eagle Ski Club Expedition . |
| 10 | I should just add that I was lucky enough to be selected for the only European Commission sponsored place at the EEB conference . |
| 11 | Well it was at night and I mean I was lucky enough to be working which is a thing that 's probably accounted for saving a lot of people . |
| 12 | Following the est the establishment of the public services section , I was lucky enough to be a delegate at the conference held in April . |
| 13 | Unfortunately living in Ireland I do n't see much of the team but I was lucky enough to be in Southampton a few weeks ago to see them beat Southampton about the head a little . |
| 14 | I was lucky enough to be offered this house to rent , so I jumped at the chance . |
| 15 | I was lucky enough to be one of the ten . |
| 16 | ‘ I was lucky enough to be one of the extras . |
| 17 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 18 | By the time I was old enough to be officially admitted to ‘ X ’ certificate performances the ‘ sixties had dawned and La Dolce Vita . |
| 19 | I felt my age ascending as his dropped : I was old enough to be his mother . |
| 20 | She had seen little but the outline of him , and the walk , which was individual enough to be remembered , once seen ; rapid and vehement , with a long stride that barely lit upon the earth before leaving it again as vigorously . |
| 21 | To be precise , a former tied cottage , which was cheap enough to be within their means for two reasons — it is remote , and it has a power pylon growing in its back garden . |
| 22 | If she was well enough to be nasty , there could n't be much wrong at all . |
| 23 | However , she was successful enough to be able to present annual displays by her pupils from 1916 and to show them in other towns , too , from 1923 . |
| 24 | But she was old enough to be assigned a dowry , a stretch of land which lay between the rivers Seine , Epte and Andelle , known as the Norman Vexin . |
| 25 | For the first time he felt awkward with this tall girl who was young enough to be his daughter , and he wished he had warned Mrs Deacon what to expect . |
| 26 | A baby tethered one in the most relentless way , even a mother who was lucky enough to be able to leave her infant in the hands of others . |
| 27 | That man , who was old enough to be her father , had ‘ completely destroyed her trust , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 29 | ( Langley is also a member of Animal Aid , an organisation with a radical image opposed to the use of animals in any research , who was unfortunate enough to be beaten up in 1987 by a member of an even more extreme splinter-group . ) |
| 30 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |