Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was not invariable , but common enough to be worthy of note . |
| 32 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 33 | Old enough to be frightened by the war , but too young to be involved . |
| 34 | If my right hon. Friend were fortunate enough to be resident in Scotland , he would find that about 89 per cent . |
| 35 | The evidence in favour of dietary fibre as a preventative measure in heart disease is not strong enough to be conclusive at this stage , but is certainly strong enough to be thought-provoking . |
| 36 | His wife must have understood enough to be jealous of the girl . |
| 37 | If she was n't hungry enough to be interested in food , she could easily have flown off . |
| 38 | The kind of software niches Solbourne would go after would require lots of CPU power , I/O and memory but still be small enough to be unattractive to an HP . |
| 39 | In spite of everything : Mr Bishop 's death , the wrecked kiosk , she felt happy because Simon cared enough to be worried about her . |
| 40 | The magnification is adequate , the field pleasingly large , and the binoculars light enough to be hand-held without awkward shake . |
| 41 | The interviewer is looking to see if you have real experience of a similar situation enough to be aware of where possible areas for attention lie . |
| 42 | I knew little of psychology but enough to be aware of the impact on the unformed ego of an absent father . |
| 43 | Constanze was clearly not ill enough to be incapable of a little mild flirtation ! |
| 44 | ‘ Come down to be warm by the fire , indeed ! |
| 45 | Liverpool came back from 2-0 down to be level at the break thanks to Jan Molby 's penalty and McManaman 's tap-in . |
| 46 | The quality plan , erm a lot of ticks , but no names , apart from the detailed design drawings and I , we thought that the quality plan , the idea was to pin somebody down to being responsible for each actual item erm . |
| 47 | If it were , our decision ought obviously to be amenable to appeal . |
| 48 | But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice … |
| 49 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 50 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 51 | So to be concerned with fashion , to dress up and have fun with clothes , is to be stupid , even whilst every single day the fashion , advertising , and plastic surgery businesses ( not to mention slimming aids , diet books , fitness centres , cosmetics industry ) pump millions of pounds into all these things . |
| 52 | So to be able to the sweepstake in the past another church and they could be , they could be on the interest you know , the amount towards running costs such as this . |
| 53 | There was altogether less to be frightened of . |
| 54 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 55 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 56 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 57 | The following range of services have been chosen not only to be relevant to members in the course of pursuing their professional objectives , but also to be of interest on a more personal level . |
| 58 | However , I ca n't help wondering how many people after seeing the engraving based on Turner 's painting by Middiman and Pye of Hardraw Force got off their wagonettes and hurried through the door of the Green Dragon Inn — only to be underwhelmed by a narrow , peaceful , tree-clad valley that leads serenely to a rocky bow with a high fall dropping from its lip to the valley floor which , impressive though it certainly is ( particularly after heavy rains ) , is nothing like the falls depicted by Turner . |
| 59 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 60 | Together with the Temiskamming and Northern Ontario Railway it also opened up northern Ontario , which was discovered not only to be good for settlement , but also to possess staggering mineral resources in copper , gold , silver , zinc , and cobalt . |