Example sentences of "shrewd [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are shrewd enough to appreciate that the appearance of pressure from outside is counter-productive in Israel , ’ one official said . |
| 2 | He was shrewd enough to appreciate that here was someone who needed to be coaxed , not coerced . |
| 3 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 4 | She was shrewd enough to see that , if all the saintly characters were killed off , readers might be inclined to deduce that ‘ the sure reward of virtue is a fatal accident . ’ |
| 5 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
| 6 | She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself . |
| 7 | Like their peers elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , the Communist rulers of Romania were shrewd enough to know that not even village idiots believed the official media . |
| 8 | He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything . |
| 9 | However , they were shrewd enough to recognise that his international contacts could contribute an essential element to their hitherto isolated effort . |