Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way their lives are outstanding enough to capture the popular imagination ; they are remembered and they become part of the town 's history . |
| 2 | A few months ago the plant recruited its first workers — the men and women , mainly aged under 25 , whose minds and fingers are agile enough to turn out microscopic silicon chips by the hundreds of thousands . |
| 3 | Since research tells us that one in four clients are dissatisfied enough to stop doing business with a professional firm , it would seem advisable for every practice to follow the Ernst & Young model and ask their clients how they feel , particularly as research also shows that an unhappy client will tell nine other people of his or her dissatisfaction . |
| 4 | These results suggested that open complexes formed at the φ29 P A2b and P A3 promoters are unstable , and that initiated complexes are stable enough to resist the heparin challenge and give rise to elongation complexes . |
| 5 | ‘ Please say that you will agree , will at least let me try to earn my own living , find out if I am strong enough to do so — not go back to being useless , merely a symbol of Papa 's wealth , not really his or your daughter . ’ |
| 6 | On the third day , I am strong enough to wash and do my laundry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am vain enough to want to look good , but not to style my hair and paint my toenails . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't believe that these adverts are specific enough to do more than stimulate people 's interest in our general services , ’ said . |
| 10 | Misunderstanding and confusion are rife sometimes causing unnecessary damage or expense , personal injury or even death . |
| 11 | The diesel engine burns its fuel so much more efficiently that its hydro carbon and carbon monoxide emisions are low enough to dispense with a two way catalytic converter . |
| 12 | The neurotoxins contained in its thousands of little venomous darts are strong enough to cause both extreme pain and sometimes even death . |
| 13 | One member uses coercion , expertise or position to dominate the others , and conformity pressures are strong enough to eliminate constructive criticism . |
| 14 | ‘ We need education authorities which are strong enough to take strategic decisions on provision of education in their areas . |
| 15 | By contrast , poorly-insulated subjects , especially if wet , have their rate of cooling dramatically increased by even light winds that are strong enough to disturb the boundary layer around them . |
| 16 | Its toes are strong enough to hold it on the bark , no matter which way it is facing and it hops about in all directions with sure-footed nimbleness . |
| 17 | The novel argues in cold , unremitting fidelity to its own thesis that in life the evil may in the end go unpunished and live happily ever after ; that the truly self-sufficient being , if he anywhere existed , would be ultimately inviolable , fearing neither reproach nor self-reproach ; and that those who are strong enough to live without sympathy are forever beyond the reach of compassion or revenge . |
| 18 | Suppressor variables such as this which are strong enough to reverse the sign of the relationship are called distorter variables . |
| 19 | Professional advice needs to be taken to check that the foundations under the playground are strong enough to serve as a vehicle park . |
| 20 | At the moment I 'm training a red-tailed buzzard , which is a much bigger bird , and its claws are strong enough to allow it to grip on to my glove , so this is n't so much of a problem . |
| 21 | Accompanied by a biographical essay by art historian Stellweg and a memoir by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska , the images are strong enough to require no explanation . |
| 22 | it 's up to him whether it 's , whether they say it 's right or wrong I think , I think what the council said is if they , if they want it , the thing shifting , they are strong enough to get it shifted if they , if they , if they really feel that the things rot , you see up in the Dales they , one chap built a house and er , and they said they had to pull it down because it would n't fit in with , of |
| 23 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 24 | ‘ Your shoulders are broad enough to bear anything . ’ |
| 25 | Much research and attention to artists ' requirements has led to a new breed of synthetic brushes which are highly appropriate for use with acrylics , among other uses , which hold their shape well over a long period of time , are delightfully responsive to use , are superbly controllable , allowing precision work , and are durable enough to resist occasional misuse . |
| 26 | So you think you are rich enough to carry on . |
| 27 | Many are rich enough to support a distinctive cryoconite flora of algae and cyanobacteria , which survive winters encapsulated in the ice ( Wharton et al . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |
| 29 | The object must be such that the subject 's senses are acute enough to pick it out . |
| 30 | From a variationist point of view , however , this is not necessarily conclusive , as language is variable at all times ; thus , it could be the case that modern [ h ] -ful and [ h ] -less varieties are each equally derived from varieties in which [ h ] -loss was variable — not categorically absent or categorically present . |