Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We were patriotic enough to cheer the goals of Charlton , Hurst and Hunt , but knew in our hearts that there might be a better way to play . |
| 32 | This separation between decision-making and actual implementation might appear rigid , but in fact de Gaulle was flexible enough to recognize that conditions could change between the moment of decision and the moment of implementation and that sometimes these changes were fundamental enough to require a modification of the original decision . |
| 33 | Potential problems regarding the treaty 's formal implementation , which surfaced after the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Byelarus said that they were unable immediately to ratify the accord , were circumvented by an extraordinary conference in Vienna at which representatives from 29 signatory nations approved " provisional application " of the treaty pending its ratification by Armenia and Byelarus . |
| 34 | Because of their size they were unable fully to support a family and so there was need for off-farm employment . |
| 35 | The Branches have to depend upon the voluntary support of the membership to fulfil what many see as their prime role , and where once the polytechnics were able heavily to subsidise a service of CPD seminars or even help run an ‘ in-house ’ programme , they can no longer operate in this way and have to charge for the events on a full cost basis . |
| 36 | Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size . |
| 37 | Thus , we were concerned throughout to interpret the process and practices of the project in terms of the perspectives , situational definitions and shared meanings of a wide range of actors . |
| 38 | They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room . |
| 39 | The king 's advisers were shrewd enough to turn the pope 's language against him . |
| 40 | During this period , the initial nonuniformities would have been amplified until they were big enough to explain the origin of the structures we observe around us . |
| 41 | As they were fitter all had the procedure in one stage and withstood up to 52 minutes rotation time ( patient VIII ) . |
| 42 | In other words , if any of you were wealthy enough to employ a lady or a gentleman t do the cleaning . |
| 43 | Last year you were kind enough to allow a skip to be placed in the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish . |
| 44 | Before they could reach him , however , he was borne aloft like a javelin and carried to the quayside a few yards away where he was dumped unceremoniously into the murky waters to a great cheer from those who were close enough to witness the event . |
| 45 | Internal interpretation was orthodox ; but the first principles were radical enough to assure a development beyond the conventions of civil law . |
| 46 | As he walked through the centre of the town he saw a large group of navvies sauntering across the wide market square , whistling at the women and calling out to any particularly young or good-looking girls — or those of any age who were careless enough to throw a smile in their direction . |
| 47 | It was useless to tell him that you were grown-up enough to have a mind of your own now . |
| 48 | We were near enough to compare the drake 's greenish-yellow bill , with his mate 's orange ( it is the female mallard which alarm-quacks the loudest ) . |
| 49 | It 's implicit from their staging that the band knows they 're nothing to look at , and they were smart enough to create a slide show that transfixes the audience . |
| 50 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 51 | The ‘ necessity ’ sought was not that of Newton 's grand mechanical scheme of iron laws and inescapable forces but was strong enough to sustain the thought that the international system is more than the constant and regular behaviour of its parts . |
| 52 | Also there were doubts as to whether the panelling in the proposed new location was strong enough to take the weight of the new clock and its ‘ sculptured ’ bracket . |
| 53 | And after about four months I thought I was strong enough to tackle the weight , and that it would n't be too much going on at once . |
| 54 | Even in its infancy , India was strong enough to survive the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 . |
| 55 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 56 | It was hard to believe that this clumsy box of bricks was strong enough to withstand the pressure of its wings . |
| 57 | Neither side was strong enough to overcome the other . |
| 58 | ‘ But I 've paid for you ! ’ he said , and this time it was loud enough to stop every conversation within a radius of twenty-five yards . |
| 59 | Once a child could walk and had , through dire necessity , learned how to shed a wet pair of training pants and put on his snow suit , he would vanish into the street , not to be seen again until lunch time ; once he was tall enough to reach the refrigerator door handle , the problem of lunch was also solved — he could get it himself . |
| 60 | Madness and Civilization was such a study , but the assumption that it was possible simply to lift the repression and to let otherness speak for itself was questioned by Derrida in his well-known critique , ‘ Cogito and the History of Madness ’ . |