Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Eleanor would have been broad-minded enough to laugh at the whole tale . |
2 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
3 | A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times , but one of this size … . |
4 | It is helpful therefore to look at the pre-1991 case law to understand how the welfare principle operates in practice . |
5 | It is difficult even to guess at the actual figures , but probably even in these areas thought of as " largely black " less than half the population is Caribbean . |
6 | When I was foolish enough to laugh at a preposterous and provocative statement made by Mr Dinsdale — who had surely modelled himself on Dickens 's character Mr Bounderby — he gave me a withering look and asked sarcastically : ‘ Is this a reason to laugh ? ’ |
7 | He was hard enough to resist at the best times . |
8 | When the ‘ cruise ’ to Bordeaux was over he was good-humoured enough to laugh at the joke with the rest of Highbury . |