Example sentences of "is [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentions Teucrium marum growing in the warm borders of Kensington palace Gardens in the early part of the century , clipped to conical forms three feet high , but there is little else to be found about eighteenth century palace gardens in the Dictionary . |
| 2 | The first British single release for this month is still being debated , but whichever track is picked , Me Phi Me is confident his message is strong enough to be heard the world over . |
| 3 | Cover boats can lose sight of divers — use surface marker buoys , carry in-water flares , make sure your whistle works and is loud enough to be heard by others . |
| 4 | It would be foolish to make a strong claim about the salience of the JC STRUT vowel for LE speakers on the strength of limited data like this , but it does appear that for some speakers , this point of difference between LE and JC falls below a " salience threshold " which leads it to be ignored for adaptation purposes , while for other speakers it is salient enough to be adapted , but not consistently . |
| 5 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 6 | Hilton comments : All through Scale 2 Hilton implies that the pursuit of this inner calling is open to all : He is careful not to be over-precise in formulating rules of practice which might not be helpful to all temperaments and all needs . |
| 7 | The one on the left is a ‘ compact ’ model which is light enough to be hand-held and easily carried round . |
| 8 | Wedgwood , traditionally more successful , experienced a rather worrying drop in profits , from I£17.9m to I£12.8m but will benefit from recent action to reduce costs by closing three old and inefficient production facilities — one of which is old enough to be subject to a preservation order . |
| 9 | The girls were shocked because although public relations consultant Margot is as good-looking as her toyboy lover , at 39 she is old enough to be his mum . |
| 10 | The child is old enough to be able to mould Plasticine . |
| 11 | ‘ BUT HE IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE HER GRANDAD ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Mind the swings , ’ shrieks Preston as his charges finally reach their goal and narrowly escape decapitation by one , propelled through the air by a boy who is old enough to be banned , or , if he is not , should be . |
| 13 | She began with my mother , attempted unsuccessfully to go on to me and now feels Alexandra is old enough to be the next victim . |
| 14 | You sound as though you feel as though there is something morally wrong in loving a woman who is old enough to be your mother . |
| 15 | I am sure that he will wish to develop that issue in Committee , if he is fortunate enough to be a member . |
| 16 | If my right hon. Friend is fortunate enough to be in the circumstances described by the hon. Gentleman , he is making a far larger contribution as an individual to income tax and other central Government taxation than would otherwise be the case . |
| 17 | Their music is simple enough to be within the competence of an average choir , yet has the melodic , harmonic and rhythmic interest which gives satisfaction and enjoyment both to singers and to congregations . |
| 18 | The only merit of the expression is that it is vague enough to be used under all circumstances without the slightest risk ; it is a favourite of official jargon today . |
| 19 | There is much yet to be done to try to improve our network and increase our numbers , with the object hopefully of enriching the life of both the graduate members and the University . |
| 20 | However , despite a considerable amount of research , there is as yet no theoretical model of the relevant processes that is explicit enough to be expressed in the form of a computer program . |
| 21 | And Dicks is delighted just to be under consideration , because English League suspensions do n't count in the competition , which pits First Division clubs with those from Serie B. |
| 22 | In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | In small matters , it is easy enough to be guided by conventional loyalty . |
| 24 | It is easy enough to be obscure and esoteric , much more difficult to be lucid and memorable to all . |
| 25 | If your elderly relative is unfortunate enough to be registered with a doctor who is impatient with the older patients on his list and not particularly interested in geriatric medicine , the best thing to do is to try to get her transferred to the list of another doctor in the area whose attitude towards his elderly patients is known to be more sympathetic and thorough . |
| 26 | For women characteristically experience change in their lives in a way which is only experienced by a man if he is unfortunate enough to be the victim of some mutilating accident or illness . |
| 27 | Servio Logic has tried to make its object-oriented database easy to modify , on the grounds that complex data is likely also to be fast-changing . |
| 28 | The 1986 Act states that the power is only exercisable where the education of pupils at the school is likely otherwise to be ‘ severely prejudiced ’ . |
| 29 | Volk & Welt is likely soon to be seeking investors , from abroad as well as Germany . |
| 30 | If the patient gets to the end of the word having named all the letters correctly , the word is likely then to be read aloud correctly . |