Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the studies are not large enough to detect or exclude with certainty clinically relevant differences in the effects of serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic and related drugs . |
| 2 | ‘ But if you 're not willing even to try and be helpful — ’ |
| 3 | You 're also wise enough to know that finding the person who 's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy . |
| 4 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 5 | A worthy father should pass the tests of strength and endurance , and so she rewards the efforts of those who are still fit enough to subdue and defend her at the end of the arduous rut . |
| 6 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
| 7 | Although frequently the butt of the jokes of modern comedians , his works are as powerful today to move and command respect as they were then . |
| 8 | ‘ The Zoom is ecologically correct , cute to behold , and promises to be highly practical both to run and keep . |
| 9 | The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down . |
| 10 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 11 | Anyway I 'm not naïve enough to forget that if we go dancing you 'll immediately be surrounded by hundreds of your female fans ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We must be very careful not to show that we suspect him , ’ Holmes warned me . |
| 13 | One 's reason for doubt lies not merely in the way selection is made : it is simply that those selected have to be very independent indeed to withstand or divert the direction pushed by permanent staff , all of whom seem already to be behaving with unwonted circumspection . |
| 14 | Although both Downing Street and the Treasury welcomed them , the figures were not strong enough to indicate whether economic recovery was finally under way . |
| 15 | Although the paper stated that the measurements of the neutrons were not accurate enough to determine if the fusion was thermo -nuclear , there was a great desire that Britain 's prestige should be boosted by the ZETA ‘ triumph ’ following the nation 's ‘ backwardness in Sputnik research ’ ( the Soviet satellite having been launched in October 1957 ) . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 17 | Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable . |
| 18 | Was he being indescribably presumptuous even to suppose that Sir Philip might consider allowing his only daughter to share her life with a man who could pay for little more than the bare necessities ? |
| 19 | You were n't mature enough to realise that running a large and expanding business concern requires a huge amount of concentrated hard work . ’ |
| 20 | The most we can get is some idea of the world view the one hand , impossible to say on the other and most importantly , what it is not possible not to say or avoid saying/implying ’ ( personal communication ) . |
| 21 | This being the case , it is not possible simply to exclude or , indeed , restrict , liability for the supply of goods which infringe third party intellectual property rights . |
| 22 | It is not good enough to say that badgers are lovely creatures ; so are foxes and salmon . |
| 23 | It is not good enough to say that an authoritative measure is justified because it serves the public interest . |
| 24 | To them it is not good enough to say that the idea of a god has ‘ great psychological appeal ’ . |
| 25 | So please take on board that it is not good enough to answer that a notice was put up to tell people that they could claim , when many people are blind or disabled or do not have the wherewithal to understand . |
| 26 | However , it is not good enough to assume that physical restrictions to access to college buildings can be removed , in one fell swoop , by the construction of a ramp or the fitting of a handrail . |
| 27 | Although all of this adds up to a fairly persuasive case in favour of certain types of co-operative R&D in certain circumstances , the case is not strong enough to suggest that all types of ventures will have positive ( or even benign ) effects on social welfare . |
| 28 | If one affirms that there is and can be only one ultimate and self-sufficient principle , the transcendent Father , and also that the divine Triad is three distinct realities ( as Origen had taught ) , it is not easy then to affirm that the Son and the Father are in being identical or ‘ of one substance ’ — not at least without fairly complicated explanations . |
| 29 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 30 | It 's not good enough to say that by becoming international stars they are compensated by the kudos this brings with it and that their personal fame enables them to cash in . |