Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way their lives are outstanding enough to capture the popular imagination ; they are remembered and they become part of the town 's history . |
| 2 | The range of academic perspectives covered is broad enough to satisfy the literary specialist 's desire that literature should relate to the world , yet the comparatively rigorous analytical approach to literary studies is very appealing to those who , like myself , have interests which are primarily linguistic and communicative rather than literary . |
| 3 | The First Aid bloke coming to his rescue almost did the same , but was intact enough to lead the dazed lad down the players ' tunnel . |
| 4 | On occasion we were able to produce small fragments of intact retina that were suitable for microspectrophotometry and yet were extensive enough to answer the present question . |
| 5 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 6 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 7 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 8 | If the output effect is still strong enough to outweigh the latter effect , then w/r falls , and in the final equilibrium , is still higher . |
| 9 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 10 | Decades later , in 1984 , the sense of unity was still strong enough to calm the sectarian anger that followed the murder of Rajiv Gandhi 's mother , Indira . |
| 11 | The boys were not strong enough to handle the heavy boat at flood tides so Mabel had to cope then . |
| 12 | The Wall Street Journal figures current management is n't strong enough to meet the mounting crisis but does n't know yet whether Akers is loosing the support of his board . |
| 13 | The small war in Spain had to be fought , they argued , precisely in order to check the fascist advance before Hitler felt strong enough to launch the big war . |
| 14 | It is true that this formulation of treating a person as an equal is consistent with the traditional liberal conception of equality , amounting to the familiar idea of equality of opportunity , and even this restricted concept of equality appears capable of generating a competing individual right which is strong enough to defeat the welfare-tax protester 's claim to be allowed to divert some of his tax into non-welfare spending schemes . |
| 15 | Given that they are working with a small sample and that the likelihood ratio test is a large sample test , ADD do not consider the evidence to be strong enough to reject the null hypothesis . |
| 16 | The Hunt-class ship , which also acts as a mine sweeper , is characterised by a superstructure made of glass reinforced plastic and is strong enough to withstand the explosive shock of mines . |
| 17 | It was almost predictable that a perfectionist like Pérignon would not rest until he found a bottle strong enough to withstand the internal pressure exerted by a sparkling wine . |
| 18 | Matthias ' aim , apart from regulating the internal affairs of Hungary by subduing the powers of chronically feuding magnates , was to create a Danubian empire strong enough to withstand the Turkish assault . |
| 19 | This perfect plant habitat will further be strong enough to withstand the physical punishment inflicted by the weather and by the animals and machines that harvest the crops it bears . |
| 20 | It was n't too windy , but windy enough to cause the occasional shot to go astray . |
| 21 | Porous enough to displace the minimum amount of water , this is very useful man-made ‘ rock ’ for marine tanks and for cichlids . |
| 22 | My imagination is of an order lively enough to appreciate the invidious nature of your position without a recital of the sordid details . ’ |
| 23 | She had , even at their wedding , surrounded herself with people , nearly all of whom were interesting enough to warrant the close scrutiny of the police . |
| 24 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 25 | Though the flush of larvae on the pasture may be an annual event , the appearance of clinical nematodiriasis is not ; thus if the flush of L3 is early the suckling lambs may not be consuming sufficient grass to acquire large numbers of L3 , and if it is late the lambs may be old enough to resist the larval challenge . |
| 26 | The plastic box used ( see parts list ) is also high enough to accept the highest component on the p.c.b. , namely the mains transformer . |
| 27 | Nevertheless he seemed willing enough to accompany the Finnish detective in the dangerous climb down over the tumbling rocks to where his cousin and his cousin 's pretty , peroxided fiancée lay . |
| 28 | Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved . |
| 29 | NO ONE was brave enough to grant the last wish of remarkable 11-year-old Kelly Good . |
| 30 | Who would be brave enough to face the terrible beast ? |