Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fine division was found to be necessary especially in dealing with pupils or parents . |
| 2 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 3 | However , he added , for self-assessment to work , the tax has to be simple enough for taxpayers themselves to be able to fill in their own tax returns . |
| 4 | They wanted Benjamin to be fuzzy enough as a fantasy figure so that everyone in America could identify with him without joining the Movement . |
| 5 | For any type of policy to be successful both of these conditions need to be satisfied or else the policy instruments under consideration will fail to give an adequate degree of control over macroeconomic objectives . |
| 6 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 7 | Fine as far as it went we would expect during this er proposal the nature of the new settlement to be specific particularly in relation to the transport of the structure . |
| 8 | Yet she may do ; and it is certainly a legitimate move in this revised game to be curious enough about it to ask . |
| 9 | And to be far away from home and in a situation where life had to be lived as if each day was your last must have intensified every sensation . |
| 10 | Then , from nowhere , a kind of despair seemed to settle on him , and he felt lonely and used and cheated , and for a moment wanted to be far away from this slim , black-haired woman with her tense white face and her slender fingers . |
| 11 | If the diagnosis is uncertain and an array of diagnostic tests is required , then the patient is bound to be anxious both about the tests and the potential results , and inevitably , is worried if surgery is prescribed . |
| 12 | She transplanted it and before long was harvesting the world 's first crop of green apples , soon to be famous all over the world . |
| 13 | You ought to be strong enough by then to cope with the journey , and I can try to organise things at the hospital so that my assistants can cope . ’ |
| 14 | The ultimate goal is to be skilled enough in kung fu to pass the grading examination for the coveted black sash of a master . |
| 15 | It 's going to be mild though with fresh south-westerly winds preventing the temperatures falling below eleven degrees celsius , that 's fifty-two degrees fahrenheit . . |
| 16 | On the contrary , it is assumed that in the last resort truth is a matter of individual consciences where all consciences are held , by an act of faith , to be equal either in the sight of God or in the sight of man . |
| 17 | After a brief pause , we blurted out the obvious opener , ‘ How does it feel to be alive again after all this time ? ’ |
| 18 | FIREMEN say a 25-year-old man is lucky to be alive today after escaping an arson attack in Linwood Road , Tranmere . |
| 19 | Comfort foods are those which soothe us and make us glad to be alive even on the most miserable of days . |
| 20 | If you are inclined to take Frownies seriously , and wish to be well ahead of the game , you need look no farther than Clare Maxwell-Hudson 's office in north London , where the notion that anti-frown plasters are a new idea from the USA met with shrieks of incredulity . |
| 21 | In the main , the competition looks to be well ahead of Informix already , though its plans for an open repository complete with APIs , may take it beyond what others can offer . |
| 22 | She had to resist a constant urge to glance back over her shoulder to make sure they were not being followed , although she had given fitzAlan enough time to be well ahead of her before starting out . |
| 23 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |
| 24 | Robert had a headache and stayed behind : he wanted to be well enough for the Opera that evening . |
| 25 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 26 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 27 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |
| 28 | He knew he was never going to be good enough for Formula One but his father would n't listen . |
| 29 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 30 | You would have had to be superhuman not to be a little corrupted by the power she had . |