Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know when this six months idea came in but it 's little enough to show respect for the one that 's gone . ’ |
| 2 | In this case the materials which are used must be strong enough to withstand placement of the crown by the dentist and the subsequent stresses created during eating . |
| 3 | The second alternative poses a serious problem , however , insofar as it leads to the further question , how could such Marxism not be true — in the sense of how could History , in the objective processes on which a scientific Marxism places so much faith , be undialectical enough to produce Stalinism from the October Revolution ? |
| 4 | It will have a similar connotation when people discover what drops through their letter boxes if they are foolish enough to vote Conservative at the next general election . |
| 5 | It is easy enough to send information at the speed of light : after all , we do exactly this when we wave at a friend or , to be more subtle , use any form of sign language . |
| 6 | The 500 stars brake so violently because they are brave , strong and skilful enough to take advantage of the extraordinary power of modern brakes and the grip of the latest slicks . |
| 7 | ‘ Cyclists and hikers … day excursionists , refugees from cursed towns ’ were prominent enough to provide fuel for the poetic pen of C. Day Lewis . |
| 8 | Each of these problems is similar enough to fall under the same broad heading but distinct enough to create confusion as the problem-solving proceeds . |
| 9 | As well as North sea oil , we have also been fortunate enough to discover gas in the North sea . |
| 10 | They 'd been delighted therefore to renew acquaintanceship at the beginning of the tour ; and thereafter had spent many an hour together , talking about old comrades they 'd known — those who 'd come through , and those who had n't … and reminiscing about some of the ‘ local talent ’ the GIs had been only too happy to discover , in Oxford itself and in some of the surrounding towns and villages . |
| 11 | To take an example , within this scheme it might be said that computing facilities must be subject to constant returns to scale because a consortium of firms large enough to take advantage of the optimally sized computer could buy one and then time-share its facilities . |
| 12 | A number of reports claimed that the postponement resulted from pressure by Congress ( I ) leaders who feared that the budget would be sufficiently unpopular seriously to diminish support for the party . |
| 13 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 14 | He hoped Mr Souness would be well enough to resume training with the Liverpool squad in July . |
| 15 | As to apparatus , saws were evidently effective enough to cut nephrite into the relatively thin sheets from which many archaic jades were made , and bow-drills must have been available from the beginning . |
| 16 | Northern Ireland has never won the Home Internationals before but team manager Jim McGrory feels that this year 's selection is good enough to achieve success for the first time . |
| 17 | As soon as she could , she resumed the normal pattern of her life , getting up at 7.30 a.m. to prepare breakfast for the older children and get them ready for school . |
| 18 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 19 | The reported occurrence of minor drug related symptoms — that is , not severe enough to warrant withdrawal from the study ) , was similar in each group ( Table III ) . |
| 20 | In past years erm in the British Isles especially with the British Met Office , we 've only been able really to study part of the atmosphere over the northern hemisphere . |
| 21 | Whereas lower-class juvenile delinquents find themselves confronting a legal system which has literally declared war against them , upper-class corporate officials find a legal system which is either at , or on their side ; for the most part it is unwilling and if not , unable even to guarantee compensation for the victims of corporate crime let alone to contain and control the crime itself . |
| 22 | The first is that it is important never to lose sight of the fact that a computer is an assistant to , not a substitute for , a human researcher . |
| 23 | Furthermore , it was difficult both to secure part of the surplus from self-supporting peasant households ( with a rather low participation in any monetary economy ) and to do so on a fair basis , that is , one which did not provoke revolt . |
| 24 | 4.31 It is convenient here to anticipate part of the chapter on future pecuniary loss ( Chap 5 ) . |
| 25 | It would be necessary only to produce evidence of the drawing of straws and some sort of conspiracy to send Oliver Twist to ask for more . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman well knows that there has been a dramatic increase in national health service spending on any measure one cares to take , far and above the amount necessary either to keep pace with the general level of inflation or to keep pace with the level of inflation in medical costs . |
| 27 | The Behringer is the panacea for my guitar-induced headaches , and it 's sensitive enough to take care of the variable pick velocities in the average full-tilt rock solo . |
| 28 | Where others might have been satisfied just to become editor of The Times , he took on one public job after another . |