Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by 1981 , in the context of wider cultural and social movements to the right , the proponents of the older conception of English felt strong enough to launch an attack on the new pluralism be grounded firmly in the study of the " classics of English literature . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Um I think um where I 've seen things that er discussed under the heading of child sex abuse erm er it 's often the case that um y'know maybe in some families you find the situation where there 's a daughter who 's being abused by the father and then when the brother gets old enough to take an interest in sexuality , he joins in as well sort of thing and it 's er y'know it 's like there 's two blokes abusing the girl . |
| 4 | While the regional value of whisky exports can not easily be gauged with accuracy in view of the complex nature of the industry it is interesting nevertheless to attempt an assessment of its impact . |
| 5 | However he continues , it would be wrong simply to seek an account of actual practices within " critical " work : instead , it is necessary to attend to the " disjointed and episodic philosophy " which is activated in the course of ordinary teaching . |
| 6 | A student has to be versatile enough to evade an attack by stepping , hopping or jumping to the side , while slipping into another more advantageous position in order to counter-strike . |
| 7 | She had even been clever enough to provide an escort for the T'ang . |
| 8 | The accused would , however , be guilty if the lease already existed and the accused dishonestly obtained an assignment of it . |
| 9 | POLICE were early today investigating an explosion at an oil terminal at North Shields , Tyne and Wear . |
| 10 | Overall , most employers felt that it was impossible completely to prevent an executive from moving . |
| 11 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 12 | I was lucky enough to receive an invitation for the special AGM held at the Guildhall London , attended by Lady Baden-Powell and other Guiding dignitaries including a lady who has been connected with Guiding for all its 75 years . |
| 13 | Suppose her mother were n't conscious enough to make an Act of Perfect Contrition in the second before she died , well , she 'd probably have to go to purgatory for a bit and burn . |
| 14 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |
| 15 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 16 | I was intrigued recently to read an interview with Roman Polanski , the film director , in which he claimed that he learns languages not by learning tracts of vocabulary , but by playing at the sounds of a new language , first speaking a " gibberish " version of it , finding out what it feels like to be making those sounds and those speech patterns . |
| 17 | If the phobic now has an explanation for his or her terror and an actual experience on which to base it , the feelings of stupidity disappear . |
| 18 | And now Creggan did begin to feel an awe and a deeper fear , for this grim place must be strong indeed to hold an eagle from the sacred site of Callanish . |
| 19 | It would not have been necessary otherwise to insert an advertisement like this in the New Yorker : |
| 20 | In the case of a relatively small acquisition it may be sufficient just to have an appreciation of the clients ' strategic thinking . |
| 21 | Whilst operating systems as distinct as Unix SVR4 and DEC 's OpenVMS embrace the Posix standard , each has thousands of other calls beyond the specific Posix requirement , says Price , which means that it is not sufficient just to port an application to Posix and assume that it will then run on any Posix-compliant system , because it wo n't . |