Example sentences of "[adv] to be [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 3 | It is not enough to be able to translate a topic into themes : ability to see a theme in turn translated back into action is a necessity . |
| 4 | The film-makers are , of course , lucky enough to be able to shoot the film in the very same workshops where Bob earned his living . |
| 5 | The Ramseys wanted a house big enough to be able to entertain the clergy and their wives in their own home . |
| 6 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 7 | In one of his songs he called himself a master of the art of love , good enough to be able to earn his living at it . |
| 8 | Answering them also requires the development of experimental models in which to test different hypotheses , and measuring techniques refined enough to be able to detect any postulated changes with learning . |
| 9 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 10 | You 're resilient and intelligent enough to be able to see it for what it was . |
| 11 | I positioned myself in the entrance to the doorway sufficiently enough to be able to see through the er the window we have in the shield erm to see quickly into the room to see er what 's in the room and if there are any persons in the room . |
| 12 | ‘ The focus of my own emotions , ’ said Ian , ‘ is not , as I think Julia 's is , my family , whom I have always been fortunate enough to be able to take for granted , but rather is it the Church , about which I 'm unduly passionate . |
| 13 | ‘ Within an hour the headache had vanished , the sickness was fading and I felt bright enough to be able to go out . ’ |
| 14 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 15 | The child is old enough to be able to mould Plasticine . |
| 16 | She felt hostile enough to be able to press going to Rome that week . |
| 17 | Railways are not really flexible enough to be able to serve isolated communities in rural areas . |
| 18 | But that meaning is not determinate enough to be able to adjudicate between rival translations , so as to make it the case that at most one is right ( though we may never be able to tell which ) . |
| 19 | A baby tethered one in the most relentless way , even a mother who was lucky enough to be able to leave her infant in the hands of others . |
| 20 | When a heatwave occurs — unless we are fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but laze around — many people become increasingly bad-tempered . |
| 21 | And it 's , it 's , it 's vague enough to be able to do that . |
| 22 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 23 | It is the home of the game and I was lucky enough to be able to mix cricket with my engineering work . |
| 24 | Large enough to be able to offer supervision in most areas of social policy and social work , the department 's commitment to research creates a very congenial environment for research students who will encounter a wide range of substantive interests and methodological expertise . |
| 25 | However , she was successful enough to be able to present annual displays by her pupils from 1916 and to show them in other towns , too , from 1923 . |
| 26 | The pilot dipped the nose of the aircraft and dropped down behind the van , close enough to be able to read its registration number : only a delivery van from the nearby town . |
| 27 | For those of us lucky enough to be able to read and play music , it certainly can be , fore the mind can then override textual aberrations of this kind ( providing they are not too excessive ) . |
| 28 | Do you love and respect yourself enough to be able to read it in front of you on paper ? |
| 29 | There is a formula that will help if followed ; however , it is difficult to develop the sort of relationship that is open enough to be able to discuss how things are going . |
| 30 | The ideal of providing an adequate and satisfying secondary education for all ( and not just for the few who were fortunate enough to be able to pass a selection test at 11 ) seemed close to realisation . |