Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had even been clever enough to provide an escort for the T'ang . |
| 2 | Here , if you are lucky enough to own an oven , you lend it to all your neighbours who do n't have one . |
| 3 | And now Creggan did begin to feel an awe and a deeper fear , for this grim place must be strong indeed to hold an eagle from the sacred site of Callanish . |
| 4 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |
| 5 | However he continues , it would be wrong simply to seek an account of actual practices within " critical " work : instead , it is necessary to attend to the " disjointed and episodic philosophy " which is activated in the course of ordinary teaching . |
| 6 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 7 | A student has to be versatile enough to evade an attack by stepping , hopping or jumping to the side , while slipping into another more advantageous position in order to counter-strike . |
| 8 | Meanwhile their parents — and wives — turn back to the only resource over which they do have some control , and produce more children : hoping against hope that this one might stay and help with the work on the land , or that one might be lucky enough to get an education and a job sufficiently secure and well-paid to bring security for all the family . |
| 9 | In Malaysia , a single tiger whisker ground up in the animal 's flesh or bone is thought to be powerful enough to kill an enemy . |
| 10 | The Government 's accumulated fiscal surpluses will then be available both to revive an economy which has had the excess heat taken out of it during 1989/90 and to restore its electoral fortunes . |
| 11 | Given the changes over the previous decade , a further review of the size and distribution of the Leicestershire residential care sector was considered to be essential both to set an information baseline before the implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act and to document changes in the demography and levels of dependency of the residential care population . |
| 12 | In the case of a relatively small acquisition it may be sufficient just to have an appreciation of the clients ' strategic thinking . |
| 13 | POLICE were early today investigating an explosion at an oil terminal at North Shields , Tyne and Wear . |
| 14 | It would not have been necessary otherwise to insert an advertisement like this in the New Yorker : |
| 15 | While the regional value of whisky exports can not easily be gauged with accuracy in view of the complex nature of the industry it is interesting nevertheless to attempt an assessment of its impact . |
| 16 | It is easy enough to hold an opinion , but hard work to actually know what one is talking about . |
| 17 | Alida Thorne is a lonely woman , but it is easy enough to make an effort , to understand and accept and perhaps I have not tried . |
| 18 | We must count ourselves lucky , then , that our own Earth is big enough to retain an atmosphere , and therefore to retain liquid surface water . |
| 19 | ‘ All measures having equivalent effect ’ has been very broadly interpreted and is wide enough to cover an injunction granted in a case such as this : Torfaen Borough Council v. B & Q Plc . |
| 20 | It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored . |
| 21 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 22 | Overall , most employers felt that it was impossible completely to prevent an executive from moving . |
| 23 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 24 | I was lucky enough to receive an invitation for the special AGM held at the Guildhall London , attended by Lady Baden-Powell and other Guiding dignitaries including a lady who has been connected with Guiding for all its 75 years . |
| 25 | Although the treatment is free , the patient may well be asked to pay for the tests used in diagnosis , and for a woman who wished to be screened for , say , gonorrhoea , trichomoniasis , and candidiasis , the bill might come to 250 francs , without the blood tests for syphilis , and if she was unfortunate enough to have an ulcer that might be syphilitic or herpetic , a further 150 francs could be added to the bill . |
| 26 | I was intrigued recently to read an interview with Roman Polanski , the film director , in which he claimed that he learns languages not by learning tracts of vocabulary , but by playing at the sounds of a new language , first speaking a " gibberish " version of it , finding out what it feels like to be making those sounds and those speech patterns . |
| 27 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |