Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only when the rest of the Ireland pack were fit and aware enough to stay with the Ulster skipper , did those same critics realise what a good player he really is . |
| 2 | There were people who provided him with houses — such as that in Bethany — which were comfortable and large enough to accommodate , at the very least , his immediate entourage . |
| 3 | The fact that our captors were confident and considerate enough to let us have the radio was almost as encouraging as the news we could at last listen to after two years of silence . |
| 4 | If you were talented or fortunate enough to write a much played work . |
| 5 | The sofas and chairs were deep and soft enough to fall asleep in , a fireplace was topped by an Adam mantel which Hugo had had flown out from England and everywhere there were fresh flowers — long stemmed hothouse roses , orchids flown in from Singapore , daffodils and narcissi and heavy perfumed hyacinths . |
| 6 | People slept there , too , sometimes , when they were poor and weary enough to risk the rats and the police-gangs . |
| 7 | As the existing windows were more than large enough to light the second-storey accommodation to building regulations standards , it was decided to shorten these openings . |
| 8 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 9 | By the time you were four and old enough to go to school you were practised at enticing the dogs in to be fed , undetected . |
| 10 | It was right because he was rich and confident enough to introduce Mary Rose to his terrible clod of a brother and his wife , and to Mammy , who was old and senile and sat like a statue in a corner by the kitchen fire . |
| 11 | The grieving widow was rich and powerful enough to hound anyone through the courts . |
| 12 | He was shocked and unable even to reply . |
| 13 | Sir Ralph 's servant Rastani was lithe and able enough to climb up that wall . ’ |
| 14 | These ‘ Mietkaserne ’ ( literally ‘ rental barracks ’ ) , to avoid the slum problem of a London or central Berlin , would be four storeys high and would open up on an interior square that was green and ample enough to permit plenty of light and fresh air . |