Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 2 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 3 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 4 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't enough to put us back in the World Cup contention . |
| 6 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 7 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 8 | Because of properties that we can think of as their ‘ shape ’ , atoms and small molecules tend naturally to pack themselves together in a fixed and orderly manner . |
| 9 | The latter was partly accomplished in your childhood and boyhood ; and it now depends on you alone to raise yourself gradually to a position of eminence , such as no musician has ever obtained . |
| 10 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 11 | Worthless character had now run foul of the law and was willing to take one final payment , enough to get him out of the State , and out of her life for ever . |
| 12 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 13 | Thinking you were Napoleon was clearly not enough to get you out of the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' Independent Day School . |
| 14 | The boys aim only to get one over on the girls while the girls dream of being romantically swept off their feet . |
| 15 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 16 | Just occasionally an electron whose energy is not enough to take it legitimately over the top will nevertheless emerge the other side . |
| 17 | It worried her to think of it , still alive , perhaps to harm someone else in a land she could not name and would never see . |
| 18 | Those in the top left-hand group represent the present and future of the company and should be invested in to push them further into the corner . |
| 19 | But the move to the climax does n't build with inexorable power , the backward placing of the horns and percussion finds the sound wanting , and the emotional grip simply is n't tight enough to pin you helplessly to the wall . |
| 20 | But despite Mr McDonald 's frantic efforts , the kiss of life was not enough to bring him back from the dead . |
| 21 | If county shops put fanzines in , then we spectators can decide whether or not to slog them out of the ground after a couple of deliveries . |
| 22 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 23 | The first leg of the voyage was from the Tyne to Bergen in Norway , where a second group of trainees , from England took over to sail her back across the North Sea . |
| 24 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 25 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 26 | The surgeon instructed a patient not to bend her back after an operation . |
| 27 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 28 | ‘ Sadly there is n't a venue in England yet 1,200 British fans came over to cheer me on at The Hague in Holland recently . ’ |
| 29 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 30 | Thoroughly out of sorts now , she turned away to busy herself unnecessarily with the tray — anything to get away from those black , compelling depths . |