Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while . |
| 2 | I never had the opportunity to tell Christie of my method of making up crews , At Kinloss when I was chair-bound there for a short period , all too frequently I received complaints about the composition of crews . |
| 3 | They took me back to London that night , and looked after me carefully all the next day , so that , although my arm was still aching , and I felt very weak , I was fit enough for the planned journey on Wednesday . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Bob rose to the challenge and in January 1991 his first task was to replace hundreds of original magnesium allow rivets , which were good enough for a static rebuild , but not if the aircraft was to fly again . |
| 5 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 6 | She was sorry immediately for the outburst . |
| 7 | Today she was hungry only for the house . |
| 8 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 9 | Anita Brookner 's novels are London-based , and they revive in their concise and elegant style , in fictions at once grim and yet subtly self-mocking , the Brontëan theme of lonely , loving heroines more sensitive than beautiful — ‘ she was attractive enough for a clever woman , but it was principally as a clever woman that she was attractive ’ — and , as in the Brontës , without the solace of a happy ending . |
| 10 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 11 | only we were stuck there for a little while last time could n't get out could we ? |
| 12 | the next leg to La Rochelle saw us arrive five minutes after the pumps shut , so we were stuck there for the night . |
| 13 | He did , and there was quiet again for a few days more . |
| 14 | Another landing when they were close together for a moment , and then another descent . |
| 15 | It would have been different if the other girls had been in the flat , but they were both away for the weekend . |
| 16 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 17 | They were safe enough for the present . |
| 18 | When it was late enough for the embassy to be fully staffed , Agnes called to say she probably would n't be in , but could perhaps be contacted at the motel number . |
| 19 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 20 | X died in March , but it was close enough for the connection that Eliot wrote of in The Waste Land : |
| 21 | ‘ If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul/Disraeli it 's good enough for me ’ at one end . |
| 22 | But an Auxetophone was ; and although the resulting records had a very poor frequency range , it was good enough for the voice of the quail . |
| 23 | On both the family and the part-time farm it was difficult often for the husband to set aside time to go to all the training courses he would like to attend . |
| 24 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
| 25 | As such he was responsible both for the retirement of Lord George Bentinck [ q.v. ] from its leadership in 1847 , after his vote for Jewish emancipation , and for the resumption of the title Conservative for his party in 1848 . |
| 26 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |
| 27 | The atmosphere between them was chilly enough for the most naive Girl to notice . |