Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 2 | The most densely populated town on the Nullarbor , Cook has 110 inhabitants , who live opposite each other on the widest street in the southern hemisphere , broad enough for a camel-train to make a U-turn . |
| 3 | We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft . |
| 4 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 5 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
| 6 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
| 7 | Though it is tougher now for a supplier to do business with America 's carmakers , there are compensations . |
| 8 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |
| 9 | Quill-written characters consist of a series of more-or-less straight strokes , simple enough for a computer to turn into numbers and analyse , but complex enough to vary from scribe to scribe . |
| 10 | Designaknit is simple enough for a child to use . |
| 11 | An antagonist is a substance which is similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors , but is not similar enough to fit perfectly and change the cell 's membrane potential , thereby blocking the receptor . |
| 12 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 13 | A draught whipped his bare legs , and he glanced over his shoulder , along the passage ; there was a hole in the little window beside the back door , just large enough for a hand to come through and turn the key in the lock … . |
| 14 | The length of the synthetic sequence should be long enough for a pattern to emerge ; the length of the four sequences given above is not sufficient for reliable conclusions to be drawn . |
| 15 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 16 | In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times . |
| 17 | I try not to cook anything that requires lengthy boiling just before a party to prevent the kitchen being turned into a Turkish bath . |
| 18 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
| 19 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
| 20 | Six feet down , there is a huge circular cellar , ten or twelve feet across and two feet or so high , quite big enough for a man to crawl into . |
| 21 | If you can pull them out you can make a hole big enough for a man to get inside . |
| 22 | The temperature dependence of η can normally be expressed in the form where A is a constant and ΔE D represents the activation energy required to create a hole big enough for a molecule to translate or ‘ jump ’ into during flow . |
| 23 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
| 24 | When all the plates were riveted together , the structure would form a square tube fourteen feet wide and about twenty-five feet high overall — big enough for a train to pass through . |
| 25 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |
| 26 | If , like me , you prefer biodegradable pots , nestle them close together in a seedtray to ensure that their walls stay moist . |
| 27 | This is cheap enough for a user to want to buy one rather than go on a commercial training course . |
| 28 | Soon one lioness is close enough to a zebra to attack . |