Example sentences of "be lucky [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It seems that if they 're lucky enough to be in work , they can still command good salaries . |
| 3 | As no doubt everyone knows , I am lucky enough to be the mother of the most lovely baby boy in the whole world . |
| 4 | ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’ |
| 6 | What is a Member of Parliament to do when , having been lucky enough to be given an Adjournment debate by you , Mr. Speaker , and having given a copy of his entire speech to the Foreign Office at 9.45 in the morning , the Minister — in this case the Minister of State , the hon. and learned Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) — makes no attempt whatever to answer the deeply serious issues that have been raised ? |
| 7 | ‘ You terrified these people , both the staff and public in this fast-food outlet and you are lucky not to be appearing on a more serious charge ’ . |
| 8 | We are lucky still to be here |
| 9 | And if we are lucky enough to be very welcome , the pitch and sound will be higher and louder still . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I think everyone should have the freedom to be able to travel as and when they choose — not just the people who are lucky enough to be able to afford a car |
| 14 | SOME people are lucky enough to be able , within limits , to control their salary . |
| 15 | IF YOU ARE sufficiently distinguished you may well be lucky enough to be invited to address the prestige conference Advances in Fermentation ‘ 83 to be held in September . |
| 16 | Sometimes you might even be lucky enough to be endowed with the qualities of the people you play — John Wayne , for example , was held up as being symbolic of everything that was good and right about America . |
| 17 | You may be lucky enough to be watching when young aphids are born . |
| 18 | Oh chicken , you did n't think when you were running around on the farm that you would be lucky enough to be served to one who — May I ? |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I 'm lucky not to be paralysed and to have escaped with just a busted nose . ’ |
| 20 | It 's just a sprain , and I 'm lucky enough to be in the care of a top-class physio in Alan Smith . |
| 21 | The stunned home side were lucky not to be two behind in Reading 's next attack . |
| 22 | Gillian Newsum has just written an excellent book about him and we were lucky enough to be offered an extract to whet your appetite ! |
| 23 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 24 | If you were lucky enough to be able to pay it then you had the dividend that came along with that . |
| 25 | We we did we were lucky enough to be in the position that we were working out of Ireland we were making a living without having to work in Ireland . |
| 26 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 27 | Elaine gets a lot more help than many disabled people , and some would say she is lucky not to be in residential care . |
| 28 | If the historian is lucky enough to be working on a topic falling within the scope of one of them , his task is greatly simplified . |
| 29 | Somebody with a £100,000 portfolio who deals £5,000-£10,000 worth of stock at a time will be protected from the worst stocks , doubly so if he is lucky enough to be in the hands of a dealer with a longer-term commitment to his profession than average . |
| 30 | In a pique against Harlequins last Saturday he flung the ball at the opposition tighthead prop and was lucky not to be sent off . |