Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if he was still alert enough to be insulting , his wound might not be so bad after all . |
| 2 | ’ They use the excuse that the shops , especially the ones selling really expensive designer gear are rich enough to be able to afford to lose a few clothes . |
| 3 | She had examined each one carefully , discarding then re-examining until she was satisfied that the gift was rich enough without being ostentatious , that the stones , the colours , were right for the girl . |
| 4 | ‘ Life is bloody awful enough without being unhappy . ’ |
| 5 | ( Nor , incidentally , are ‘ Fenland Blows ’ caused by the absence of hedgerows — another common belief ; conventional hedges are simply not tall enough to be effective , only shelter belts of poplars or other tall trees . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They are all strong enough to be soft . |
| 9 | It must so conduct affairs so as to secure full or near-full employment and that the rate of inflation will be stable and low enough to be tolerable . |
| 10 | An advanced student should be agile enough to be able to manoeuvre himself into any position he deems necessary , whether standing or lying on the floor . |
| 11 | Yet even in 1360 the French royal council did not feel weak enough to be obliged to accept the terms ceded by the captive king in London . |
| 12 | Interested enough to be enthusiastic and do the right thing ? |
| 13 | The one on the left is a ‘ compact ’ model which is light enough to be hand-held and easily carried round . |
| 14 | Detailed enough to be authoritative , while remaining readable . |
| 15 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 16 | Several had considered maths or engineering , or both ; maths was generally dismissed as ‘ too theoretical ’ , while engineering was dismissed as ‘ too applied ’ : physics was held to be the perfect happy medium — applied enough to be ‘ relevant ’ ( a favourite adjective amongst both the science and the arts students ) , but theoretical enough to be stimulating and demanding . |
| 17 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 18 | By November 1160 he had decided that Henry and Margaret were old enough to be married ; Henry was now five and Margaret a couple of years younger . |
| 19 | You do n't look old enough to be married . ’ |
| 20 | I repeated — and , to cover my astonishment , found I was saying , ‘ She does n't look old enough to be married ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'm old enough to be young now , ’ said Catriona . |
| 23 | Sometimes she thought that when they were old enough to be doubtful strangers themselves she would still be telling them to hold hands and watch the traffic . |
| 24 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 25 | The child is old enough to be able to mould Plasticine . |
| 26 | His house is large , and his children are old enough to be free , though all still live under his roof . |
| 27 | Old enough to be frightened by the war , but too young to be involved . |
| 28 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 29 | By the time we are old enough to be surprised at our own cleverness we have forgotten how we acquired it . |
| 30 | His pigtailed youngest daughter , Mary , found that her quick eye and nimble ‘ old enough to be trusted ’ fingers were invaluable in the unpacking , placing and appreciation of the tiny articles that arrived almost hourly by carrier . |