Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the house hardly looked large enough to support a private chapel . |
| 2 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ supporters seem preoccupied with the necessity for certainty , permanence , security and a stable bond with a single set of parent figures in a relationship where both sides feel safe enough to make a long-term commitment . |
| 3 | After six years in a Birmingham slum parish , Anna thought , you became desperate not to have a front doorstep strewn with down-and-outs and to have a back garden littered with worms , not discarded syringes and used condoms . |
| 4 | The largest of them , Greenpeace , has , in the space of two decades , enlisted 3.5 million members worldwide and become rich enough to maintain a small fleet of boats and a research station in Antarctica . |
| 5 | Suitably armed , the Princess felt confident enough to write a long and detailed rejoinder to her irate father-in-law which effectively spelled out the way she felt she had been treated by husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 6 | However , the organizers must ensure as in all other types of issue that the ownership is spread wide enough to create a liquid market . |
| 7 | Cooperation is rarely found to succeed amongst those who are unequal in material terms since it becomes difficult both to ensure an equal distribution of costs and benefits . |
| 8 | We have limited the field to stored-program computers , and we further limit the field to general-purpose computers ; that is , to computers with an instruction set rich enough to perform a wide variety of tasks . |