Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most spiders have eight eyes , although only two of them are sophisticated enough to create a picture of the scene . |
| 2 | Part of that rally — and I am immodest enough to think a not unimportant part — was to enlist the services of my partner John Montgomerie ( Monty ) and myself to assist in preparing their answer to the consultative document . |
| 3 | I am pleased also to tell the House that the United Kingdom is sending £20 million worth of animal feed aid to St. Petersburg so that livestock need not be slaughtered this winter . |
| 4 | I am pleased also to announce a total of more than £6.5 million industrial investment by a further four companies , either expanding , modernising or setting up operations in Wales . |
| 5 | I am old enough to remember the clean streets , the neat parks , the dignity of Carmel Road , the sedate trolley buses , the low rates , the LNER trains which ran to time , the prosperous water , gas and electricity works and the big crowds at Third Division north games at Feethams . |
| 6 | I am big enough to take the stick . |
| 7 | Even if that does not happen — I am realistic enough to know the vagaries of elections — the legislation will not be implemented in the form in which the House is discussing it tonight . |
| 8 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 9 | About a month later , he said to me that he was compelled to agree that the first dinner had not been a success ( his words ) , and would I be kind enough to arrange a second ? |
| 10 | It is likely to be waterproof and windproof and there is additional protection should someone be foolish enough to fire a shot in the direction of the ferrets ' container while bolting rabbits . |
| 11 | Well I do like trains , but it 's not just a case of liking trains , okay , yes , I like , I like trains , I like , I mean I 'm old enough to remember the steam trains , it 's not just a case of that . |
| 12 | Does n't she think I 'm old enough to know the truth ? ’ |
| 13 | I 'm lucky enough to have a diary full of opera engagements , and my recording schedule for the next couple of years is particularly exciting : Così with Mehta [ See our interview in the next issue ! — Ed. ] , a disc of Mozart arias , and a Magic Flute ( all for Sony ) , a Don Carlos with Levine , a Verdi Requiem , all the Schubert Masses , a Verdi recital , some Russian bass/baritone duets , and a recital of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov songs with Alexis Weissenberg ! ’ |
| 14 | In 1973 I was fortunate enough to see a spectacular total solar eclipse at Lake Turkana in northern Kenya , with the bonus that this wild and exotic region is worth visiting in its own right . |
| 15 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 16 | I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy . |
| 17 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 18 | In 1961 , I was fortunate enough to win a by-election in the constituency of Worcester . |
| 19 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 20 | I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds . |
| 21 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 22 | And after about four months I thought I was strong enough to tackle the weight , and that it would n't be too much going on at once . |
| 23 | I was intrigued recently to read an interview with Roman Polanski , the film director , in which he claimed that he learns languages not by learning tracts of vocabulary , but by playing at the sounds of a new language , first speaking a " gibberish " version of it , finding out what it feels like to be making those sounds and those speech patterns . |
| 24 | With a group of others , I was misguided enough to raid the school strawberry beds . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I felt unfortunate to lose that tournament but it told me I was good enough to win a major and I 've come here hitting the ball as well as I ever have . ’ |
| 26 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 27 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 28 | Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen . |
| 29 | I was lucky enough to receive an invitation for the special AGM held at the Guildhall London , attended by Lady Baden-Powell and other Guiding dignitaries including a lady who has been connected with Guiding for all its 75 years . |
| 30 | I was lucky enough to join the makers of Gospel Green , a Sussex-made hard cheese , to watch the cheesemaking in process . |