Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 3 | ‘ The last time I was in England I was foolish enough to take a woman into my confidence . |
| 4 | However , in reaffirming it as an objective , Mr Kinnock was careful not to set a timescale for reducing unemployment to between 750,000 and one million , depending on circumstances . |
| 5 | ‘ Since I was old enough to carry a money-bag , I 've trudged round the streets , knocking on every door of every property you own … aye , and sometimes I 've had a fist in my face for the trouble , but never once have I let you down . |
| 6 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 7 | Cos the girls were a little bit different sort of understand , I think Matthew suffered , Matthew was the one that , that had suffered through it , he was four , and he was old enough to understand a little bit more he knew how brushing off on him |
| 8 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 9 | Mungo looked up and was relieved not to see a face at the window . |
| 10 | Overall , most employers felt that it was impossible completely to prevent an executive from moving . |
| 11 | I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds . |
| 12 | In 1961 , I was fortunate enough to win a by-election in the constituency of Worcester . |
| 13 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 14 | I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy . |
| 15 | He was lucky not to get a prison sentence and claims that since that time he has remained sober . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1884 New Zealand was lucky enough to acquire a railway architect and engineer who had been trained in Scotland . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ I was here last year with the Irish team and was lucky enough to score a couple of tries in the Test that we lost in Dunedin . |
| 21 | Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen . |
| 22 | Alan was lucky enough to discover a scorpion in the fruit bowl . |
| 23 | He delivered his dissertation on time , was awarded his doctorate , and was lucky enough to obtain a lectureship in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Suffolk , ‘ the last new job in Romanticism this century ’ , as he was wont to describe it , with justifiable hyperbole . |
| 24 | Later I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of his Impressionist Painting in Oils , a , small handbook published by The Artists ' Publishing Co . |
| 25 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 26 | Several weeks later , John was lucky enough to find a home , but Poppy did n't have to cope alone for long . |
| 27 | If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village . |
| 28 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I got in touch with your old man , baby , and then I was lucky enough to get a lift to this — this Wilderness place . ’ |
| 30 | At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality . |