Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave him a piece , which to my horror he popped straight into his mouth , for it was surely large enough to kill some half-dozen dragoons together with their horses . |
| 2 | But it was n't good enough to secure his release . |
| 3 | The Department of Transport , they were very little help , we contacted them and after initial propaganda visits , we were told that sixty thousand tons of traffic was n't worth bothering about it was n't large enough to warrant any help or subsidy . |
| 4 | But it was n't large enough to button and showed her blouse and skirt , and so when she appeared in the yard again Ben , standing ready by the cart , grinned at her , saying , ‘ That 's nice ! |
| 5 | But it was n't cold enough to settle . |
| 6 | It was n't big enough to get lost in , but almost . |
| 7 | Only by touch was it possible to establish that the body inside was entire , though it was not practical either to drain the liquid or to lift the remains . |
| 8 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 9 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 10 | The apparent trend to the Left in the Labour Party was in keeping with the political atmosphere of the times , but it was not strong enough to force the abandoning of official opposition to any form of the Unity Campaign . |
| 11 | She found it was not possible even to get up out of her seat without shoving people , elbowing her way , pushing past them . |
| 12 | Having concluded that it was not possible accurately to assess industry 's wishes , the Report then proceeded to make a number of far-reaching recommendations . |
| 13 | During the period of the project , because of the teachers ' action , it was not possible systematically to collect data relating to generalization . |
| 14 | It was not possible suddenly to change direction , yet the damage being done to education was obvious as campuses sometimes resembled market-places rather than institutions of higher learning . |
| 15 | Earlier , in June , the Finance Minister , Theodor Stolojan had said that it was not possible suddenly to remove controls on prices without creating an inflationary spiral in the ensuing price-wage explosion , although he agreed that the current pricing mechanism distorted prices and adversely affected supply and demand . |
| 16 | It was not possible merely to apply management skills and manuals across different sorts of business . |
| 17 | Never got through unfortunately , after a month or so it was not topical enough to bother . |
| 18 | It was not clear enough to protect the sellers from the consequences of their own negligence and it did not apply when the sellers had delivered something wholly different in kind from that which had been ordered . |
| 19 | The English government maintained a small military force in the islands but it was not large enough to guarantee the English population against slave revolt or foreign invasion , and the settlers had to make an effort on their own account as well . |
| 20 | 6 of them had to be transferred from the Aylesbury Young Offenders Institution when Judge Stephen Tumim 's prison inspection team found it was not secure enough to take them . |
| 21 | It was even good enough to ease the conscience of the people on our side who decided to leave them where they were . |
| 22 | It was also necessary formally to sever its links with the Odiham Agricultural Society so , on 19 April 1791 , a letter was sent to the Society , saying that the College would not now persist in the Odiham plan of sending youths to France to be trained . |
| 23 | It was also possible finally to abandon many of the controls maintained since wartime . |
| 24 | We were to discover that it was just large enough to hold a corpse and two breathlessly claustrophobic busy-bodies . |
| 25 | A shopkeeper with a shop in Bristol Central and a home in Bristol West would now qualify for a vote in both constituencies ; under the new system , there were few ways to qualify for plural votes , but it was much easier actually to qualify , and so tens of thousands of new plural votes were created , overwhelmingly Unionist . |
| 26 | I packed away my Bible in its plastic bag and , as it was now light enough to see , switched off the torch . |
| 27 | It was more irritating still to realise he was n't in the least bit put out by the woman 's comments . |
| 28 | So it was nonetheless interesting recently to undergo a full battery of professional and occupational psychology tests which found me to be thoroughly rounded in skills and attitudes , a good communicator both normally and at times of stress and so on . |
| 29 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 30 | He told Mary that it would be all right and that anyway it was too late now to do anything else . |