Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That rather vitiates the traditional nature of Cabinet government if you have a strong-minded figure ending discussions in this way . |
| 2 | None of them commands much loyalty amongst the other provinces and each effectively rules an independent state . |
| 3 | That effectively broke the General Strike , which ended on 12th . |
| 4 | In the drowsy state there is very little coming in and yet the cortex is still relatively alert and demanding something to work on , although not alert enough to provide an effective inhibition of nonsense being offered by the senses . |
| 5 | Either way their lives are outstanding enough to capture the popular imagination ; they are remembered and they become part of the town 's history . |
| 6 | The worst fact of 1987 was that without the Foot and Falklands factors , Labour only reduced the Tory lead from 5 to 3¾ million . |
| 7 | It is dependent not so much on the generous staffing levels of PNP Phase 1 ( though that obviously helped a great deal ) as on a combination of a degree of staffing flexibility and a basic preparedness to accept that this kind of role is important and needs to be built into a school 's staffing arrangements under whatever label is deemed appropriate . |
| 8 | As far as I was concerned , that merely represented a different path to the same goal and so on 22 June I told the House of Commons that rail electrification was going ahead . |
| 9 | It might seem little enough to get an extra bus stop or pedestrian crossing , but those are real concerns for local people and such matters affect the way they regard you politically . |
| 10 | Similarly , the range is not broad enough to produce a median ratio . |
| 11 | The range of academic perspectives covered is broad enough to satisfy the literary specialist 's desire that literature should relate to the world , yet the comparatively rigorous analytical approach to literary studies is very appealing to those who , like myself , have interests which are primarily linguistic and communicative rather than literary . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many are rich enough to support a distinctive cryoconite flora of algae and cyanobacteria , which survive winters encapsulated in the ice ( Wharton et al . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The First Aid bloke coming to his rescue almost did the same , but was intact enough to lead the dazed lad down the players ' tunnel . |
| 16 | On occasion we were able to produce small fragments of intact retina that were suitable for microspectrophotometry and yet were extensive enough to answer the present question . |
| 17 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 18 | ‘ That only leaves a positive ID from the victim . ’ |
| 19 | But that only adds a new dimension of urgency to the business . |
| 20 | It was also recommended that the Committee should seek to make some of its existing activities profitable enough to employ a social development director from its own resources . |
| 21 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 22 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 23 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 24 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 25 | Is the government 's tax base strong enough to support a planned expansion of services ? |
| 26 | If all the children are to be involved , is the production strong enough to support a large cast in worthwhile roles ? |
| 27 | And who would be strong enough to overcome a young man as well as a , presumably , fairly robust young damsel ? ’ |
| 28 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 29 | Decades later , in 1984 , the sense of unity was still strong enough to calm the sectarian anger that followed the murder of Rajiv Gandhi 's mother , Indira . |
| 30 | Join Congress , Mr Gandhi seemed to be saying , and create a party strong enough to have a clear majority . |