Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] lucky [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As no doubt everyone knows , I am lucky enough to be the mother of the most lovely baby boy in the whole world . |
| 2 | ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’ |
| 4 | It 's just a sprain , and I 'm lucky enough to be in the care of a top-class physio in Alan Smith . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 7 | We are lucky still to be here |
| 8 | And if we are lucky enough to be very welcome , the pitch and sound will be higher and louder still . |
| 9 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 10 | The general principle of proportional representation is surely a more democratic one than any system which tends to over-represent majorities at the cost of under-representing minorities — if they are lucky enough to be represented at all . |
| 11 | It seems that if they 're lucky enough to be in work , they can still command good salaries . |