Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the shame of the public defamation felt by the typical Nazi lawyer was allegedly almost enough to drive him to suicide , reactions of astonishment , disbelief , anxiety , and criticism can be read between the lines of the responses from judges and the justice administration , and the most outspoken reaction was that the Führer had been badly misinformed and his ‘ wholly unexpected attack on justice ’ much ‘ discussed and criticized ’ . |
| 2 | But the concession of the papal taxes of the clergy to the king was all too clearly to release the king from baronial pressure when his oath to the barons was cancelled and the obdurate archbishop recalled . |
| 3 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 4 | It is abundantly clear that when the time came to construct defences around many of these sites , the reason was not always primarily to protect the community . |
| 5 | Even if no more water were to flow into the aquifer , water would flow out , like the air from the tyre , until the pressure was no longer enough to lift the water above ground level . |
| 6 | His last UK hit , Dimples , was in 1964 but his 28-year absence from the charts was not quite enough to beat Eartha Kitt , who disappeared from the charts in 1955 and did n't return until 1983 . |
| 7 | There were some undertakings still charging only ½d. ( or even , in a few cases , ⅓d. ) per additional kWh to domestic users after the War , and ½d. was not even enough to pay for the coal needed to generate that amount of electricity in the majority of the power stations they were then using , far less to pay the other costs of supply . |
| 8 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |