Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , they were professional enough to do the gig , but it served no useful purpose . |
| 2 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 3 | If Adam had not issued from his hiding-place early in May they would not have been discovered ; but the messages which had come from Llewelyn were grave enough to warrant a risk which by then appeared so slight . |
| 4 | For example , Levin et al , 1983 concluded , from their 1980 survey of 150 elderly confused people , that about half were suffering from ‘ physical illnesses which were grave enough to impede the performance of daily living activities ’ , many involving such problems as incontinence , failing , unsteadiness or pain . |
| 5 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 6 | They were fortunate enough to secure a seat actually in the window alcove , which , although the shop was crowded , gave an illusion of privacy to their conversation . |
| 7 | We were fortunate enough to have the loan of a new Citroën BX 4×4 Estate for our weekend trip which , with its sure-footed permanent 4-wheel drive , impeccable road manners and self-levelling suspension , had taken everything in its stride , — including , thanks to its optional electronic ABS braking system , stopping quickly and safely when we suddenly encountered a 5 mile tail back in a contra-flow on the M1 . |
| 8 | Those traders were relieved yesterday to see the Bundesbank had held the 8.25 per cent rate unchanged . |
| 9 | We were delighted yesterday to obtain the agreement of the manufacturers to concentrate on these three key areas . |
| 10 | The first bonding systems for dentine that were reproducible enough to eliminate the need for mechanically retentive cavities were first seen in the late 1970s . |
| 11 | The thin oil that coated each vital component , the enamel and metal tapes were warm enough to aromatize the air as fast as the air-conditioning changed it . |
| 12 | If they were lucky enough to find a skylark 's nest they might not want to spoil the countryside for all of us . |
| 13 | An early aircraft it was returned to Boeing at Everett for structural testing to destruction on April 5 , 1988 and the Science Museum were lucky enough to secure a cross section , including the upper deck . |
| 14 | ‘ I came straight to Cochabamba with my family because we were lucky enough to have the money from my book and I 'd bought this land before leaving Bolivia in 1980 . |
| 15 | Most units were large enough to allow the son to return to work at home , in which case the wife 's role changed again to that of housewife . |
| 16 | The corks were tight enough to keep the wine in good condition for perhaps forty to fifty years , but it is understandable that after sixty years some evaporation should have taken place . |
| 17 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 18 | Indeed they were good enough to assign a USAF Public Relations Officer , the very friendly Major Hal Brubaker , as my guide and mentor . |
| 19 | This project almost died at that point , as I should not imagine that my skills were good enough to meet the precision requirements and the time factor seemed unacceptable . |
| 20 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 21 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Because of their size they were unable fully to support a family and so there was need for off-farm employment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room . |
| 29 | The king 's advisers were shrewd enough to turn the pope 's language against him . |
| 30 | 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 . |