Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was a former radical socialist , Bernie Cornfeld , whose IOS venture was to make him very rich , and many of those rash enough to invest in it extremely poor . |
| 2 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 3 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 4 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 5 | It should be dry enough to brush off the slabs without staining |
| 6 | The mortar should be dry enough to brush off the paving without staining the slabs . |
| 7 | Drying time : most of the fabric was dry enough to wear within three hours in a warm room , but the elasticated waistband and cotton pockets took considerably longer . |
| 8 | As soon as the soil is dry enough to rake towards the end of the month , do n't delay sowing such hardy crops as cabbage , non-bolting beetroot , lettuce , spinach , peas and broad beans . |
| 9 | I see a not very tall man , pleasant enough to look at but a beige man , not very exciting , not very sexual — ’ |
| 10 | There had been little enough to choose between the two killings , yet all the difference in the world between the fates of those responsible : the one retired with honours , the other shot by firing squad at the age of twenty-eight . |
| 11 | TO READ PETER HOUNAM 's letter , you would think he had had little enough to do with Michael Murrin . |
| 12 | Eleanor would have been broad-minded enough to laugh at the whole tale . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , Sir John , a rich holding , but not rich enough to murder for . ’ |
| 14 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind that you 're rich enough to live in Surrey , and some people ca n't even afford a roof over their head do n't you think you have a moral obligation towards these people ? |
| 16 | It is inevitably the case that these tend to be people who are not rich enough to engage in high-powered tax planning , or who , for lack of knowledge or advice , fail to take the necessary precautionary action . |
| 17 | Europe is now rich enough to deal with its tribal , idiotic hatreds and appallingly violent racism on its own . |
| 18 | The family became rich enough to send VS Naipaul to university in England . |
| 19 | And Onassis said , ‘ I am rich , but I am not rich enough to pay for all this ! ’ |
| 20 | They 're rich enough to pay for it and smart enough to get it for free . |
| 21 | As yet , it is possible only to outline in general terms how the arrangements will work . |
| 22 | However , once more , it is unknown how often silent evasion went undetected : the official machinery was not extensive enough to check on the activities of all small employers . |
| 23 | This truck stood 9in from the floor , and was constructed to carry two milk churns and , at the same time was narrow enough to pass through the end gangways , so that the churns could be taken from one end of the train to the other . |
| 24 | oh right , what saying ? , you 're not brainy enough to go to college |
| 25 | It may not occur ; pupils may be resilient enough to deal with negative social encounters themselves , or may have the kind of personality that makes them unlikely to arise . |
| 26 | Pray God to purify and refine them , so that they can be sharp enough and strong enough to cleave like a great blade through the selfishness . |
| 27 | ‘ That is simply not strong enough to cope with the difficult challenges in front of us . |
| 28 | The idea of settling Jews in Palestine , the British Foreign Office cabled two of its ambassadors in 1916 , ‘ might be made far more attractive to the majority of Jews if it held out to them the prospect that when in course of time the Jewish colonists in Palestine grew strong enough to cope with the Arab population they may be allowed to take the management of the internal affairs of Palestine … into their own hands … |
| 29 | Unless local Bars are then strong enough to cope with the demand for advocacy , this will pass more and more to the solicitors . |
| 30 | And you 're going to have to be strong enough to cope with it . ’ |