Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN actress old enough to be drawing her pension begged to play glamorous Scarlett O'Hara in a sequel to Gone With The Wind . |
| 2 | For many years the British Library has not acquired copies of books which are simply reprints of what they already have : that is , later editions identical in text and pagination with first editions of books popular enough to be reprinted . |
| 3 | By the time the Taft-Hartley Act was invoked ninety-five days later , there would be a total of two killings , two assaults , thirty-five bombings , the taking of one hostage , and seventy-one other ‘ disruptions ’ involving such things as sabotage of railroads , gunfire directed against people , trains , and motor vehicles , property damage , and other incidents of violence serious enough to be noted by the Department of Justice . |
| 4 | Environmental evidence forms a special category of finds , and can consist of animal bones and snail shells large enough to be seen and collected by the excavators . |
| 5 | She obtained 1,489 tokens of si clauses from 90 subjects , a body of data large enough to be analysed by the VARBRUL program ( see 6.8.4 ) . |
| 6 | Then Borg and Lloyd , ghosts from the ‘ Love Match ’ of long ago , were reported as having lost to a pair of teenagers young enough to be their sons . |
| 7 | This control was relatively sensitive and made the Blower Vac controllable enough to be used near delicate plants . |
| 8 | There is only one quantity clever enough to be both itself and minus itself . |
| 9 | After all , the situation bulges with seedy potential : a man about to have sex with a girl young enough to be his daughter is suddenly forced to pose as her father . |
| 10 | the Plaza with a frizzy-haired girl young enough to be his great-granddaughter . |
| 11 | A girl young enough to be his daughter ! |
| 12 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 13 | The mock-ups confirmed that the depth of forty-one inches would make the blocks massive enough to be understood as volumes in relation to the volume of the space . |
| 14 | While these links involved the provision of some common services , they did not constitute chains in exactly the traditional newspaper sense , since the holdings were not in every case large enough to be a controlling interest . |
| 15 | If these depressions ( or low pressure areas ) are tracking in towards Ireland rather than taking a more northerly route , then the circulation of wind flowing clockwise ( as it must ) round the depression means that south-easterly winds will be blowing over Shetland from the North Sea and pushing any birds unfortunate enough to be flying to ( or from ) Scandinavia at the time in a westerly direction . |
| 16 | On the other hand , any workers lucky enough to be employed receive a higher wage . |
| 17 | Once in he could lose himself among the excited household , and never be in one place long enough to be an object of suspicion , until he could find a means of encountering Ralf Isambard alone . |
| 18 | So far natural selection had kept the group small enough to be manageable ; usually it was filled from among those who came to her monthly entertainments . |
| 19 | Though it gave a good account of itself , Dave gently persuaded the fish close enough to be lifted aboard the boat . |
| 20 | But if naval patronage did prove to be of considerable value to the Elphinstone family interest , reinforcing the impact of the Indian patronage distributed by Keith 's brother , William Elphinstone , the fleet could only provide patronage for those officers fortunate enough to be employed in a command in a suitable station far from Great Britain . |
| 21 | Usually , the largest contribution to the energy of the turbulence is made by eddies large enough to be oriented in this way but small enough to be within one part of the mean velocity profile . |
| 22 | He 'd sailed these waters for six months and knew every reef and coral head shallow enough to be a threat . |
| 23 | It also created a circulating draught which could be faintly felt all around the fireplace area , coming to its peak on the back of the neck of the person unwise enough to be sitting on the right of the grate . |
| 24 | These would include loyalty , diligence , honesty , affluence , a lower crime rate , families small enough to be supported by one 's own labour , a certain independence of mind , democracy , and so on . |
| 25 | It might simply be that the amount of learning involved in such a task was not great enough to generate biochemical changes big enough to be measured . |
| 26 | Oh I 'd I 'd like to be a a delegate at conference but I ca n't be a candidate this year cos I 'm captain of my and I think I 'll be a bit busy anyway to be honest doing press work . |
| 27 | Also progressive mental impairment severe enough to be called dementia sometimes occurs in a small number of those with AIDS , usually in the latter stages of the syndrome . |
| 28 | 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 … |
| 29 | Most people old enough to be expected to pay for them out of their own pockets regard the price of games cartridges as outrageous , but Nintendo Co is raising the prices of new software titles sold in the US by roughly 20% to offset the impact of Japan 's ever-rising yen . |
| 30 | Colin Bastafield , 29 , also fell in love with a woman old enough to be his mum — his 48-year-old mother-in-law , Dawn Stafford . |