Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school . |
2 | Those trapped in the crush at Hillsborough who were fortunate enough to escape without injury have no claim in respect of the distress they suffered in what must have been a truly terrifying experience . |
3 | In March 1862 the novelist Ivan Turgenev satirized Russia 's revolutionary youth in Fathers and Sons , but the fires that devastated St Petersburg two months later led many to suppose that radicals were tough enough to engage in arson . |
4 | The scheme had been widely approved : now as always Edward was careful not to proceed without consent , and had the scheme worked it would have proved highly lucrative . |
5 | When his own son was old enough to go to school , Alexia took up painting , working her way away from representational landscapes into suggestive abstracts based on the British countryside . |
6 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
7 | By March he was out again , and back at his office in Faber and Faber , although he was prudent enough to retire to bed early in the evening : with a complaint which had no organic cause , he could not be certain that he had been cured " . |
8 | Oh well , if she was unwise enough to come to tea , Gina was unlikely to try the same thing again . |
9 | Her energy and enthusiasm for life returned , her sleep pattern became normal once more and she was able again to cope with life . |
10 | Other candidates presented themselves : Brassard must know Miller 's End and he might have come to hate being bullied by Newley ; Yorick blamed Newley for his own failings , and was hysterical enough to kill on impulse ; Henry , having predicted Newley 's death , had a vested interest in ensuring that the prediction was fulfilled ; Zaza might have been seduced by Newley and then spurned |
11 | And if she was naïve enough to fall in love with him — so much the better . |
12 | Echoing this anxiety over the future of democracy at the end of the First World War , another government inspector wrote of the need to keep working-class youth ‘ in touch with ‘ the forces of civilisation ’ , for it was necessary always to keep in mind that ‘ we are training a whole social class ’ . |
13 | ‘ So , here I am , Uncle Orrin , ’ she had said gaily , ‘ your naughty niece , exiled because she was silly enough to fall in love with a poor man who was only interested in her money . |