Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Bush won all of the Republican contests , his margins of victory were not sufficiently large either to destroy Buchanan 's candidacy , or to disguise the sizeable portion of Republicans who were dissatisfied with Bush 's record . |
| 2 | Many students felt Deng was on their side , for they were not politically sophisticated enough to realise that he was using their movement to attack his opponents and thereby strengthen his own position . |
| 3 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 4 | The younger children , who had completed nine years of school but who were not quite old enough to join the Hechalutz training programme , combined a half-day study syllabus with agricultural work . |
| 5 | Its folded wings were nevertheless still wide enough to scrape the wall on both sides of the room . |
| 6 | The trouble was they were just too far away to see things clearly , and also I could n't hear the sound . |
| 7 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 8 | William Whitelaw believes , however , that there were no abstainers : the six who did not vote were either too far away to present themselves at Westminster , or they were ill . |
| 9 | Men with anal cancer were significantly more likely never to have married than were men with colon or stomach cancer ( table ) . |
| 10 | It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and , apart from that , the box was only just long enough to take it . |
| 11 | These were the basic tools of Mr Kronweiser 's research , and the study was only just big enough to hold them and him . |
| 12 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 13 | Winter was just too far away to take advantage . |
| 14 | I was just too late yesterday to go across , but the islet looked marvellous . |
| 15 | And a morning was not nearly long enough to explore the friendly and fascinating city . |
| 16 | Laura , however , declined on the grounds that she was not nearly important enough to share the limelight with such august people . |
| 17 | The support he found amongst gentry and townsmen in eastern Sussex was not yet strong enough to guarantee victory . |
| 18 | He drew his sword and held it in front of him , the pulse pounding in his temples , but he was not yet afraid enough to wake the others . |
| 19 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 20 | Implicit was the feeling that Saito 's papermaking company was not quite grand enough to own these French status symbols . |
| 21 | His legs were encased in tight black trousers that outlined his figure tantalisingly ; the light was not quite bright enough to see his full silhouette . |
| 22 | Mogg had hailed her victory : ‘ Although Mrs Thatcher 's majority was not quite large enough to avoid a second ballot , the victory was clearly a decisive one . ’ |
| 23 | She had spent her share of time in caves digging for archaeological pieces , and realized that she was probably too deep underground to feel a breeze from outside . |
| 24 | It was far more convenient just to dislike him , to tell herself he was a rat , a snake , a ruthless villain . |
| 25 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 26 | Fairbrother knew , but was far too discreet ever to say , that the Prince was oversensitive on the subject of his empty heart . |
| 27 | Thank God her college was n't yet fashionable enough to attract more than the odd one or two . |
| 28 | Thornton was n't quite good enough to take his title , but Eubank might soon be so tired that someone , somewhere , will catch up with him . |
| 29 | There were some er farms say of fifteen or twenty acres which was n't quite big enough to make a living . |
| 30 | And mostly those were er married men who had a small place of their own which was n't quite big enough to keep them full time . |