Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | If she was well enough to be nasty , there could n't be much wrong at all . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was bad enough to be slumped here like a heap of old clothes . |
| 25 | However , my last signal of any importance was somewhat strange in sound ; it was flat and sounded like iron , but it was positive enough to be worth digging . |
| 26 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 27 | I knew it was precious enough to be perilous . |
| 28 | Although the Vineyard had little effect on the planting of vines in England , it was popular enough to be reprinted four times as an appendix to Evelyn 's translation of Nicolas de Bonnefons ' The French Gardiner in successive editions from 1669 to 1691 . |
| 29 | As for his Greek readers , the only certain fact is that he was famous enough to be copied — or summarized — by his younger contemporary Diodorus . |
| 30 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |