Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His motive was probably connected with the part of the text which says that the estates of Christ Church and other Kentish churches are henceforth to be free of all secular service and royal debt . |
| 2 | Better to be good to him — be specially good to him . |
| 3 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 4 | The outstretched arms of the great statue of Christ overlooking Rio no longer appear to the inhabitants of the favelas below to be open in benediction or welcome ; in this city of violence , insecurity and ravaged humanity , it appears to be rather a gesture of resignation and despair . |
| 5 | Liza appeared not merely to be uninterested in her child , but positively to reject the dark-haired , red-faced bundle who Harriet felt more certain than ever had not been fathered by John Carrow . |
| 6 | They are short enough to be accessible to the pre-intermediate learner , and students will be pleased with their progress in understanding spoken English . |
| 7 | The area was about four hours away from Edinburgh or Glasgow — near enough to be accessible for weekends , far enough to be considered remote . |
| 8 | Those Merseyside bastards are hellbent on destroyin' themselves and every poor management sod unlucky enough to be involved with the plant . |
| 9 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 10 | But actually it 's the reverse , since it 's a struggle to get detached and find a perspective that balances my own inside knowledge against the spectrum of differing views of their fans , detractors and those unfortunate enough to be indifferent to them . |
| 11 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 12 | The answer to that is simply to make sure that we use radiation of a wavelength short enough to be compatible with whatever accuracy we choose to specify . |
| 13 | This period was not one he was particularly expert in , but he knew enough to be impressed by the handiwork . |
| 14 | ‘ The advanced 16v engine delivers real power , and the car is still small enough to be zippy around town . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A novelty is F£ minor , rare enough to be absent from every theorist 's list , and which Campra had used before only in passing modulations . |
| 17 | He was angry enough to be violent in his defence of her , angry enough to be jealous when she kept out of his way . |
| 18 | The cold fusion with muons , ‘ muon catalysed fusion ’ , can occur and has been seen to happen ; however , it does not seem to happen fast enough to be useful as an energy source . |
| 19 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |
| 20 | But an FA spokesman said : ‘ Graham is not worried because he feels that if the game was being played at Wembley today , they would all be fit enough to be available for selection . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And you are blind , Fernando Serra , not totally but enough to be choosy about what you do see . |
| 22 | But if the Government thinks that the public is gullible enough to be happy with a table or two every now and again , it is quite wrong . |
| 23 | You 're young enough to be dramatic about everything . " |
| 24 | There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self-contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest . |
| 25 | In a full drive or a similar distance shot , this ‘ tension bending stiffness ’ is , in the 40 milliseconds ( ms ) before impact , large enough to be comparable with the stiffness measured by the manufacturers ' tests as part of the shaft itself . |
| 26 | I could understand one man imagining that he saw a person in the immediate area of the box but it is hard to believe that two level-headed signalmen could have been mistaken enough to be confused by the same phenomenon . |
| 27 | Popular with older men marrying women in their twenties — still young enough to be entitled to a proper send-off . |
| 28 | By the time we are old enough to be surprised at our own cleverness we have forgotten how we acquired it . |
| 29 | Certainly not as bright as here , er sufficient light for me to be able to see that there were people in there and to differentiate between a man and a woman but er at that time not enough to be able to clearly define anybody . |
| 30 | But it had taken Duncan Bradford 's vision to persuade his agent that James was gifted enough to be worthy of the expense involved in letting him study medicine . |