Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 SINGER Melanie O'Reilly drew a standing-room only attendance for the last of the inaugural season of Assembly Direct 's ‘ The Jazz Club ’ promotions .
2 Burton found a burned out dinghy on the waterline with German markings .
3 It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district .
4 She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance .
5 Nevertheless , even if their cosmology , like that of all religions , was expressed in fantastic terms , the Siberian natives , like the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of any land , had a rational enough view of the world which surrounded them , in addition to a wealth of practical knowledge about the forest and its fauna , and about crafts and hunting techniques .
6 If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that .
7 Speed : Had a quiet enough game including the goal .
8 More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities .
9 In fact she had been approached by wealthier men than Jonas , whose interests in her were sometimes honourable but mostly not , and she had a realistic enough sense of her attraction not to be ruffled by anything her cousin could say .
10 He longed to discuss Meredith further , his background , his opinions — on the surface he sounded a sensible enough sort of fellow but he did n't know how to go about it .
11 It sounded a trivial enough disturbance on the surface , but it seemed as though there might be substance in Tom Watt 's fears after all .
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