Example sentences of "[adv] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected him henceforth to be both a Congregationalist and an Anglican . |
| 2 | Better to be exactly right first time . |
| 3 | In bad organizations the objectives are decided unilaterally , very often as a result of a political trading-off process at the board and at other levels , and are perceived by those below to be quite unrealistic and impossible of achievement . |
| 4 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 5 | Whilst most bryozoa require microscopic examination , a few form colonies large and distinctive enough to be easily recognizable . |
| 6 | The figure is close enough to be easily identified and the expressions can clearly be seen , while enough of the background remains visible to place the subject in the setting . |
| 7 | ‘ Your van is distinctive enough to be easily recognised . ’ |
| 8 | Although indentation testing as a measure of elastic modulus is not well known as a laboratory test method it is the basis of many hardness tests used in industry particularly for softer materials such as rubbers , where the indentation made under a standard load is large enough to be easily measurable . |
| 9 | There is only one quantity clever enough to be both itself and minus itself . |
| 10 | Any drawing must be large enough to be clearly seen and also set the standard for items produced by the learner . |
| 11 | Hence it would be necessary to draft a new housing repair code in terms specific enough to be clearly understandable … but also containing a wide enough range of topics to be considered so as to ensure that the law is sufficiently flexible to cover the greatest number of housing repair problems … |
| 12 | The boys were growing up so fast , but they were still young enough to be intensely impatient at any delay in the opening of the presents , and Dad must have worked hard this morning to persuade them to wait . |
| 13 | The AcerPac 450 is certainly cheap enough to be commercially viable at £2,000 ; and this with margins ‘ in excess of 20% ’ — a benefit of manufacturing in Taiwan . |
| 14 | To most of those who knew him Henry was just eccentric enough to be terrifyingly normal , and even his carefully calculated bitterness , the quality of which , on the whole , he was most proud , had become , in early middle age , a Nice Dry Sense of Humour . |
| 15 | By the time I was old enough to be officially admitted to ‘ X ’ certificate performances the ‘ sixties had dawned and La Dolce Vita . |
| 16 | Some years ago , IBM bought into the videodisk business only to withdraw after it was tweaked by the press for backing a recording that purported to explain healthful massage but actually featured the kind of body rubbing one would n't show to anyone young enough to be dramatically influenced , Woody Allen 's romantic inclinations notwithstanding . |
| 17 | It is wide enough to be liberally interpreted and would cover pregnancy-related illness , miscarriages and abortions . |
| 18 | But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view . |
| 19 | We 're all extending our overdrafts in the hope that we can stay in business long enough to be around when the upturn starts . |
| 20 | ‘ All I know is that we are good enough to be up there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 21 | It is a notably hardy and thrifty breed , able to produce good milk yields from the poorest of fodder and an excellent smallholder 's cow , well suited to hill farms iii particular , light enough not to poach winter pastures and small enough to be tightly stocked . |
| 22 | It was an odd situation , since we did n't know each other well enough to be suddenly on such bad terms . |
| 23 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 24 | Erlich had gone down to New Scotland Yard fast enough to be more than 25 minutes early for his appointment . |
| 25 | In 1962 it was still new enough to be modern but poor enough to be half worn out . |
| 26 | The number of signatories to the letter — and up to 50 other House Democrats might agree with its terms , as well as perhaps 25–30 of the 56 Democratic senators — means that a ‘ UN ’ resolution could pass Congress only with a majority small enough to be politically unacceptable , and might well fail . |
| 27 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |