Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and , apart from that , the box was only just long enough to take it . |
| 2 | These were the basic tools of Mr Kronweiser 's research , and the study was only just big enough to hold them and him . |
| 3 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 4 | Winter was just too far away to take advantage . |
| 5 | I was just too late yesterday to go across , but the islet looked marvellous . |
| 6 | And a morning was not nearly long enough to explore the friendly and fascinating city . |
| 7 | Laura , however , declined on the grounds that she was not nearly important enough to share the limelight with such august people . |
| 8 | The support he found amongst gentry and townsmen in eastern Sussex was not yet strong enough to guarantee victory . |
| 9 | He drew his sword and held it in front of him , the pulse pounding in his temples , but he was not yet afraid enough to wake the others . |
| 10 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 11 | Implicit was the feeling that Saito 's papermaking company was not quite grand enough to own these French status symbols . |
| 12 | His legs were encased in tight black trousers that outlined his figure tantalisingly ; the light was not quite bright enough to see his full silhouette . |
| 13 | Mogg had hailed her victory : ‘ Although Mrs Thatcher 's majority was not quite large enough to avoid a second ballot , the victory was clearly a decisive one . ’ |
| 14 | She had spent her share of time in caves digging for archaeological pieces , and realized that she was probably too deep underground to feel a breeze from outside . |
| 15 | It was far more convenient just to dislike him , to tell herself he was a rat , a snake , a ruthless villain . |
| 16 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 17 | Fairbrother knew , but was far too discreet ever to say , that the Prince was oversensitive on the subject of his empty heart . |
| 18 | Thank God her college was n't yet fashionable enough to attract more than the odd one or two . |
| 19 | Thornton was n't quite good enough to take his title , but Eubank might soon be so tired that someone , somewhere , will catch up with him . |
| 20 | There were some er farms say of fifteen or twenty acres which was n't quite big enough to make a living . |
| 21 | And mostly those were er married men who had a small place of their own which was n't quite big enough to keep them full time . |
| 22 | When she finally reached his side , he looked up , his eyes dark with an anger he was n't quite quick enough to conceal . |
| 23 | ‘ I was n't quite brave enough to put the champagne in the fridge on election night , ’ said Edmund Vestey , chairman of the Campaign for Hunting . |
| 24 | Syl went out of his way to preserve a semblance of youthfulness , wearing his clothes untidily and even eating in a haphazard fashion as though he was n't quite old enough to have learned proper manners . |
| 25 | She was certainly still young enough to play with children , but , in a way , she seemed to have an old head on those shoulders . |