Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The novel argues in cold , unremitting fidelity to its own thesis that in life the evil may in the end go unpunished and live happily ever after ; that the truly self-sufficient being , if he anywhere existed , would be ultimately inviolable , fearing neither reproach nor self-reproach ; and that those who are strong enough to live without sympathy are forever beyond the reach of compassion or revenge . |
| 2 | What is more , we are told unequivocally that only those who are fortunate enough to live for another 30 years will be able to find out the purchase price of those companies . |
| 3 | The harsh reality is that those who are fortunate enough to have work will need to make sacrifices for the sake of those who have not . |
| 4 | " Where I , or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them ( taken together ) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety , each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot . " |
| 5 | There are admirers of rugged grandeur who are content merely to survey the scene from easy points of vantage . |
| 6 | But active adventurers who are content merely to locate the various holes and inspect them from secure stances on the surface will reap an experience they will long remember . |
| 7 | As I understand it , the Sunday Times is not objecting , primarily , to the fact that people have been left out , but that there were not sufficient young ( meaning under 40 ) novelists to include and that there was too much emphasis on the rather elderly young like Ben Okri , Kazuo Ishiguro and Iain Banks , who are well enough established . |
| 8 | Even so , if the sequence is to come off it will have to be stage-managed to some extent : children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus are not old enough to carry the action on their own without the help of an adult to keep things moving . |
| 9 | Those of my readers who are young enough to have been exposed to " modern mathematics ' at school , and for whom it " took " , will be familiar already with the essentials of this rather sophisticated notion . |
| 10 | Yes , well , I mean I 'm very happy to be able to agree totally with that erm , people who make the laws are n't the people who suffer from the the physical , and matters might be a great deal better if erm , they paid a bit more attention , I do hope that he would agree however , erm , that police officers who are female also have a good effect on the streets , because he was acting as if erm , it was only the male person who were any use , and I 'm sure that is not so . |
| 11 | People who are ill often sleep more than usual . |
| 12 | Parents who are secure enough to give reasons , to show understanding and to listen carefully know their authority is not threatened by ‘ giving ’ a little , by refusing to be ‘ unbending ’ at all times . |
| 13 | ‘ It will appeal to all those people in any discipline who are knowledgeable enough to know that there is much they do not know , and that learning and re-learning is worthwhile . |
| 14 | They are simply people who are lucky enough to have landed a free trip to a holiday destination , a trip paid for by an airline , a tour company , a hotel chain or any combination of the three . |
| 15 | But there are not many people who are lucky enough to have the length of holiday enjoyed by MPs . |
| 16 | Is it any wonder that the only people who can afford their services are rich companies , millionaires and those who are lucky enough to get legal aid ? |
| 17 | Why is it that so many people who are kind enough to give a home to an abandoned dog , then resent advice on how best to integrate this traumatised pooch into the family ? |
| 18 | No , not everyone only the people who are foolish enough to save up . |
| 19 | They may even try to ensure that they do not have any who are popular enough to filch " their " votes . |
| 20 | What it transpires is local parties who are interested enough get what 's |
| 21 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 22 | They are people who are old enough to vote . |
| 23 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 24 | What a terrible indictment on the medical profession if it pillories those of its members who are brave enough to find the research evidence to support what many have suspected but few have challenged . |
| 25 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 26 | About half of those who are unfortunate enough to lose their jobs leave unemployment within three months . |
| 27 | Homoeopathy has therefore become a postgraduate study and has to rely for the recruitment of its practitioners on those members of the medical , dental , veterinary and pharmaceutical professions who are open-minded enough to try new approaches . |
| 28 | ‘ Damnation ’ now makes his final contribution to the salvation of this small Year Niner 's soul by explaining that ‘ streams of living water can be found in room 19 any Friday lunch-time for those who are thirsty enough to seek it . ’ |
| 29 | But those Who are courageous enough to face their singleness and their feelings honestly are free to discover , in the words of a Roman Catholic priest , that celibacy ‘ is not a matter of uprooting sexuality but of becoming sexual in a different way . |
| 30 | She said : ’ They provide help to those who are unable always to go shopping on weekdays and Saturdays . |