Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She wanted to say , ‘ I 'd be more than happy to leave it to the experts . ’
2 Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day .
3 The energy transferred from the photon to the electron is more than enough to remove it from the atom .
4 Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings .
5 Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius .
6 I plan to donate approximately 30 items myself and a friend if willing to help me with the selling .
7 It was obviously advantageous to record those events and the aftermath as quickly as possible to preserve them for the benefit of those who came after us .
8 The novice flyer will normally require that the model 's response to the transmitter is at a minimum , to avoid any tendency to overcontrol , while the gyro has as much effect as possible to help him during the learning process .
9 This time , because your subjects are not static objects but people , you can move the camera as necessary to keep them in the centre of the frame — but stay with the subject , do n't pan part-way through to show something else .
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