Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
2 | You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side . |
3 | Still , I had n't thought I was a big enough fish for this sort of attention . ’ |
4 | are shorter than everybody else 's and , but this one had a , a cape on with a gold braid which meant he was a big high up one , and he was just absolutely paranoid , I mean they reckon that the Matawa are such fanatics that they are just Greeks , you know they just , you know these ones that just |
5 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
6 | He says I do n't think he 's a responsible enough citizen . |
7 | The recognition of blocks within ageing counsellees is therefore an important skill , but like so many others in counselling it is a perceptual rather than a concrete skill . |
8 | No she 's a doctor , I think she 's a junior like , she 's under him but |
9 | Which I think is a blessing cos I think he 's a real so and so . |
10 | I think he was an Aberdonian really the way he spoke anyway but he 'd been brought up in Blair Gowrie . |
11 | Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organizations in the town , and that creates a sort of area of communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's , say , five or six times as big . |
12 | Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organisations in the town , and that creates a sort of an area of erm communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's say five or six times as big . |
13 | Erm I think it was an inter-club actually , oh the inter-club table show was the only night he could manage and that was no good to us so erm we , we the only way we could do it was to t bring him the night that there was a full table show transfer the full table show to the champion of champions judge that first and put the winning fish into the champion of champions and I know , well it 's gon na be woof you know a rush and that will , oh well , never mind . |
14 | You said it 's a growing up ! |
15 | Said it was no good anyway ? |