Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinn 's brow furrowed ; he had not checked the stones himself — he had not the skill to tell real diamonds from good forgeries — but now prayed no one had been foolish enough to insert a proportion of paste among the gems . |
| 2 | During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 3 | Ruth had been fortunate enough to find a job in Ilkley . |
| 4 | Someone had been thoughtful enough to provide a felt lining to the bottom of the box so that there would be no noise from the falling coins . |
| 5 | It 's unlikey that you 're lucky enough to own a Sinclair Harding clock — they 're so exclusive , and take so long to make that only seven hundred have been produced over the last twenty five years . |
| 6 | If you 're lucky enough to have a colour printer , you can also fiddle with text and background colours . |
| 7 | Sadly , unless you 're lucky enough to have a machine with a powerful processor and a large hard disk and you 've got wads of cash for each of these £300-plus packages , then it seems your dreams will come to nothing . |
| 8 | If you 're unlucky enough to have a machine that goes wrong regularly , a service contract may save you hundreds of pounds . |
| 9 | They 're cheeky enough to approach a picnic party for scraps of food , then snatch a teaspoon and make off with it . ’ |
| 10 | No you can run They 're big enough to run a diskful of game but not something that takes more than one disk . |
| 11 | To give a concrete example , personal social services care is only one element in individual care systems in which family , neighbour and purchased care are likely also to play a part . |
| 12 | Some of our packs which are recyclable now carry a symbol , and this will be added to many more in the future . |
| 13 | At last it had been cold enough to need a blanket and a quilt , to hold Zosie in his arms without the sweat pouring off them both . |
| 14 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 15 | In this imaginary scenario , I 've been lucky enough to get a mailing list of some of the country 's top plastic surgeons . |
| 16 | By contrast , increased population counts will enable multiple retailers to identify towns which , for the first time , are large enough to sustain a branch . |
| 17 | But if you 're in a general branch such as I am , which is made up from people of all sorts of industries that have come together because none of us are large enough to have a branch within our own industry on our own , then which section do we go to ? |
| 18 | If you are lucky enough to lure a governor from Sainsbury 's the governor will not only get three days paid leave per year for meetings and training , but also receive £200 for school funds . |
| 19 | ‘ The way I look at it , they 're over there and are lucky enough to make a dollar for something they enjoy . |
| 20 | If you are lucky enough to have a colour printer , or you just prefer to work with pretty colours , you can use a set of designer colour schemes designed , it would appear , by the world 's great composers . |
| 21 | for example , you are lucky enough to have a holiday abroad for two or three weeks but you have no access to scales and you also eat out all the time . |
| 22 | ‘ And for that matter , not many men are lucky enough to have a work-force composed entirely of beautiful women . ’ |
| 23 | Victorian lockets look beautiful if they contain a tiny flower arrangement instead of a photograph , and if you are lucky enough to find a fob watch that no longer works you can transform it into a stunning and unusual frame for a miniature flower design . |
| 24 | If you are lucky enough to obtain a Sear 's catalogue , or one offered by any number of American suppliers , you can give your card number and order what is required on the order form usually enclosed . |
| 25 | Ask any player who has been unfortunate enough to fire a ball into the thick marram grass of a dune on a links and he 'll tell you there is only one way out — pick it up and start again . |
| 26 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 27 | Most spiders have eight eyes , although only two of them are sophisticated enough to create a picture of the scene . |
| 28 | The 8 cameras are powerful enough to perform a variety of surveillance tasks . |
| 29 | He had even been confident enough to order a celebration dinner at the White Hart Hotel in Aylesbury for that evening . |
| 30 | Many are unlikely ever to find a job again . |