Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ever more intense rivalry between Mercedes and BMW , that should have been a blast big enough to silence the boys from Munich . |
| 2 | Think you were a bit young then to take pictures . |
| 3 | I think it 's a bit wrong perhaps to say it did n't affect Britain . |
| 4 | Well the advice Mrs then is if you know what variety it is and you know it 's a variety tough enough to grow outdoors like er Peregrine , then send protection at the susceptible time of the year when the blossom 's out , otherwise er if it is a tend a more tender variety we do n't think er the thing is going to survive and certainly not going to fruit . |
| 5 | First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming . |
| 6 | Here was a gravity you could argue with ; here was a horizon close enough to reach out and grasp hold of . |
| 7 | Sir Arthur Fairbairn was a man great enough to shoulder these responsibilities gracefully , tirelessly and successfully , leaving behind him some concrete examples of generosity and philanthropy as well as the memory of a genial heart and a simple soul doing good in an aristocratic manner . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he was a man prudent enough to realise that he could not antagonise the entire civil service . |
| 9 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 10 | A pity , in a way , that the dancing would be merely metaphorical : this was a house large enough to accommodate dancing , but their friends were not of the dancing classes , would gaze in astonishment , alarm , sophisticated horror , intellectual condemnation , at dancing in a private house … another year , perhaps , for the dancing . |