Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In other words , if any of you were wealthy enough to employ a lady or a gentleman t do the cleaning . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Internal interpretation was orthodox ; but the first principles were radical enough to assure a development beyond the conventions of civil law . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | It was useless to tell him that you were grown-up enough to have a mind of your own now . |
| 37 | 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 ) . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Even in its infancy , India was strong enough to survive the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | It was hard to believe that this clumsy box of bricks was strong enough to withstand the pressure of its wings . |
| 45 | Neither side was strong enough to overcome the other . |
| 46 | ‘ 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 ’ . |
| 49 | I explained how , at the beginning of each world war , it was possible quickly to double the number of infantry battalions , gunner and other regiments . |
| 50 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 51 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 52 | ‘ The last time I was in England I was foolish enough to take a woman into my confidence . |
| 53 | Photographer Andrew MacPherson , who 's more used to female models peering through the lens for Vogue magazine , was brave enough to take the picture |
| 54 | He hoped it would not be too long before she was brave enough to leave the bar . |
| 55 | In the kitchen the fire was burning low but there was light enough to see the steam rising from the bedclothes as they held them out to air . |
| 56 | He was open-minded enough to appreciate the skill displayed in the carving and scholarly enough to value the insight into Chinese mentality offered by its imagery . |
| 57 | ‘ Since I was old enough to carry a money-bag , I 've trudged round the streets , knocking on every door of every property you own … aye , and sometimes I 've had a fist in my face for the trouble , but never once have I let you down . |
| 58 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 59 | By eight I was old enough to clean the house and do the weekend shopping . |
| 60 | Cos the girls were a little bit different sort of understand , I think Matthew suffered , Matthew was the one that , that had suffered through it , he was four , and he was old enough to understand a little bit more he knew how brushing off on him |