Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And fifth , it must be alert enough to judge perfectly the moment for a sudden ‘ recovery ’ and flight to safety . |
| 2 | ‘ Suck The Knife ’ rides on a mad axe-hero riff brazen enough to bring out the cigarette lighters . |
| 3 | The lunar light gleamed on gold , and his intake of breath was almost loud enough to echo down the alleyway . |
| 4 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 5 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 6 | Her holy obstinacy , her sulky refusal to bend her stubborn head to emperors , fathers , lovers , or dragons had proved strong enough to conquer even the need to kill . |
| 7 | In the early 1970s , industry observers thought that IBM was strong enough to shake off the challenge from Japan . |
| 8 | This effectively spreads out the resonance peak ( which at a steady temperature is very sharp ) , and produces strong coupling at a range of temperatures . |
| 9 | If the binding energy is low the ejected electrons carry most of the photon energy and can escape from perhaps a depth of 100 Å , while low-energy electrons ejected from levels of binding energy of 1000 eV or more may only reach the surface from depths as small as 1 Å : this effectively includes only the surface layer of atoms . |
| 10 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 11 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 12 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 13 | She 's sixteen , old enough to take over the housekeeping . ’ |
| 14 | Brahmadaitya are kind to humans , though should one be foolish enough to chop down the palm tree where this spirit lives , the offender 's neck will be snapped , like a twig . |
| 15 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 16 | Is there anybody brave enough to take on the post of SAA Executive Secretary ? |
| 17 | One must , of course , be infinitely grateful for a source as detailed and informative as Ata'i ; but one must also be careful not to allow simply the approach to the writing of biographies to mislead as well as inform , and not to ignore , in the flood of welcome facts , the more personal , anecdotal material which is given or to be unaware that there is much that is not given , much that is unexplained and perhaps by now unexplainable . |
| 18 | This further reduces both the power required and the heat generated , but without any threat to vital data . |
| 19 | But this also explains why the music of the counterculture could be so easily co-opted and its radical implications defused . |
| 20 | I have noticed that , given the opportunity , males of several different species are quite happy to make a meal of eggs and fry , and this probably explains why the females are generally extremely hostile to any approach near their family . |
| 21 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |
| 22 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 23 | This radically changed both the function of the US dollar in the international monetary system , and its relationship with other currencies . |
| 24 | This accurately sums up the marketing policy and illustrates what is being achieved by the creation of the new point-of-sale material . |
| 25 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 26 | When we arrived at the arena , we opened the emergency doors and some even crawled out the windows . |
| 27 | I tell you what , this even picks up the girl over the tannoy . |
| 28 | If it is unavoidable then type out the script in double spacing with bold headings . |
| 29 | The day starts with our tail-lift bus leaving the centre at 9.30 am to pick up the clients with the help of 2 escorts . |
| 30 | Such inconvenience pre-disposes young and old alike to decline both the offer and acceptance of joint occupancy . |