Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 2 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
| 3 | For a century or more both Parliament and the courts have been careful not to act so as to cause conflict between them . |
| 4 | Seemed to love going forward and was quick enough to get back when needed . |
| 5 | It was better not to go out than to go and fall down . |
| 6 | An important stated purpose of the Act was to give a legal framework for credit which was compatible with present-day commercial realities , and flexible enough to suit rather than restrict future developments in the credit industry — instead of the old framework , inflexibly moulded to outdated patterns of credit use . |
| 7 | What we therefore need to do is to print it out in a way that will not only show the grid , but be big enough to follow easily whilst knitting . |