Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later , however , Gundovald was wealthy enough to bribe the leading citizens of Angoulême . |
| 2 | Alan was lucky enough to discover a scorpion in the fruit bowl . |
| 3 | Tired as he was , Ramsay was glad enough to leave the slow and wearisome convoying of cattle for swift riding and positive action . |
| 4 | Louis was perceptive enough to gauge the degree of royal influence that would be welcomed in the great principalities . |
| 5 | Thanks to the German and Italian aid , Franco was able substantially to increase the number of troops being transported daily from Morocco to Spain , while the Republic remained apparently unable to stop him . |
| 6 | Yet Pickard was keen also to echo the more positive tone of the seminar and the alleged changing face of the administration in this country , when he said , ‘ There are still many things to be done but there is renewed enthusiasm and that must be maintained . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher was cute enough to see the need to cultivate the backbenchers who made up her lobby fodder and the knighthood became once again the reward for wrecked marriages and broken health caused by sitting up all night to vote as the whips instructed . |
| 8 | He welcomed the European Commission on Human Rights ' ruling that the case of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar was good enough to go the European Court . |
| 9 | In some areas — notably labour relations policy — Citrine was able successfully to keep the mandarins and ministers at bay , but he lacked the independent powers of the old CEB to say a straight ‘ no ’ in the last resort on a point on which the Minister had strong feelings . |
| 10 | In 1884 New Zealand was lucky enough to acquire a railway architect and engineer who had been trained in Scotland . |
| 11 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sothebys were unfortunate enough to misattribute a French eighteenth-century picture , which was in fact by Fragonard . |
| 14 | Because the motorbike was tucked cunningly under the very rampart of the fortress , much closer than the blue Corvette , Wilkie was able both to reverse the firm family progress of the Grimauds , and to make it impossible for Alexander not to catch up . |
| 15 | Even in its infancy , India was strong enough to survive the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 . |
| 16 | In the September 1981 party conference it was revealed that Healey had indeed won , by the narrowest of margins , with 50.3 per cent of the popular vote ; the star of Tony Benn began to dim somewhat thereafter , not least because Michael Foot was able subtly to mount a movement of the old ( or ‘ soft ’ ) constitutionally-minded left against the ‘ hard left ’ of the neo-Marxist , unilateralist fringe . |
| 17 | Several weeks later , John was lucky enough to find a home , but Poppy did n't have to cope alone for long . |
| 18 | There was an almost miraculous answer to their prayers , and Margaret was well enough to attend a special service of thanksgiving on April 10th. 1660 . |