Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 2 | *It is only in the last 15 years that the accumulated evidence has been strong enough to conclude that the regular consumption of up to four standard drinks a day may reduce the risk of coronary disease by as much as 50 per cent . ’ |
| 3 | For Geschwind had been careful enough to note that the angular gyrus is needed even for visual — visual ( indeed , for any non-limbic ) associations . |
| 4 | But I am sensible enough to realise that if I make an effort to understand what different foods actually contain , it will help my body share the benefits of my enjoyment . |
| 5 | ‘ Surely you 're old enough to realise that all men have some ulterior motive when they invite a woman out ? |
| 6 | You 're old enough to learn that you must n't run after men . |
| 7 | And we 're old-fashioned enough to believe that children come after marriage , not before . ’ |
| 8 | The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them . |
| 9 | Life is killing us moment by moment , and until you are humble enough to accept that you will never be truly aware . |
| 10 | ( And how could Gyggle have been stupid enough to imagine that he was dead ? ) |
| 11 | I am cynical enough to suspect that it probably happens , and it vividly illustrates the point about equipment improving while its net effectiveness stands still ( and its costs increase ) . |
| 12 | If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever . |
| 13 | ‘ It will appeal to all those people in any discipline who are knowledgeable enough to know that there is much they do not know , and that learning and re-learning is worthwhile . |
| 14 | I have argued that company law in its attempt to establish the legitimacy of corporate managerial power has been concerned also to show that the power conferred on managers is subject to controls which prevent it from being used arbitrarily . |
| 15 | With the aid of measured drawings and a 1:10 model of the room in the Alcazar Palace in Madrid , destroyed by fire in 1734 , in which Velazquez painted ‘ Las Meninas ’ ( now in the Prado ) , Philip Troutman , director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries 1958–80 , has been able convincingly to show that the figures seen in the mirror at the far end of the room in ‘ Las Meninas ’ are those of the king and queen as painted by Velazquez on the canvas propped on the easel , and not , as has been suggested , of figures peering through the doorway behind the viewer . |
| 16 | As this growth is counteracted by thermal redispersion of the chains at the crystal-melt interface , the temperature must be low enough to ensure that this disordering process is minimal . |
| 17 | Actually it would be fairer just to say that , in comparison with the time it would take either a monkey or a randomly programmed computer to type our target phrase , the total age of the universe so far is a negligibly small quantity , so small as to be well within the margin of error for this sort of back-of-an-envelope calculation . |
| 18 | The Government should be honest enough to recognise that their actions have prejudiced the consumer . |
| 19 | However , it would be dangerous indeed to assume that all these entrants were intended to acquire a full competence in the trade.58 Work on Essex shows that the skill and training content of female apprenticeships was generally modest , and that they tended to have a different meaning . |
| 20 | Notice boards must be large enough to ensure that displayed items are not overlapping and obscuring one another . |
| 21 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 22 | These would have to be stringent enough to ensure that the country 's borrowing did not put pressure on national or Community interest rates . |
| 23 | No one would be stupid enough to believe that what they were doing would change anything , that a war might stop because of a pop song . |
| 24 | From the vendors ' viewpoint , it will be important tactically to ensure that the preferred party is selected once all potential deal breaking points have been cleared with that party . |
| 25 | And in order for this to be possible , he must be able also to show that he understands what he has learned . |
| 26 | And will he be far-sighted enough to guess that even DNA may itself have been a usurper of yet more remote and primitive replicators , crystals of inorganic silicates ? |
| 27 | Any property owner in this position should take immediate advice as action may be necessary both to ensure that the rateable value is as low as possible , and that maximum advantage is taken of the empty rate provisions . |
| 28 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 29 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 30 | We are inclined therefore to say that again presupposes , rather than semantically entails , that some event referred to happened before as well ( see Chapter 4 ) . |