Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Because of his understanding of practice , he is able not only to show how police ideology is maintained , but even propose alternative models by merely writing down and presenting his knowledge .
2 Then she would go down to his cluttered little house in South Kensington with his hundreds of contacts ( for he was clever enough never to leave anything to chance ) and he would pronounce them all ‘ Absolutely Divine , ’ but at last succeed , with supreme anguish , in selecting one or two which were even more divine than the others .
3 He was strong enough now to attribute the man 's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice .
4 We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip .
5 The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas .
6 But so far from there being any question of selling Astley , he was able once again to take a full-scale London house in Eaton Square .
7 He was thankful , too , that Len Brayton had healed the rift between him and his father , so that he was able once more to visit the family home .
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