Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , Sir John , a rich holding , but not rich enough to murder for . ’ |
| 5 | And Onassis said , ‘ I am rich , but I am not rich enough to pay for all this ! ’ |
| 6 | They 're rich enough to pay for it and smart enough to get it for free . |
| 7 | You 'd still be strong enough to work for us , but you would n't be able to help the Big-Endians . ’ |
| 8 | Hawk joined her , and , clad only in breechclouts , they ran through the sands , wrestled to a standstill — Hawk was wiry , but strong , and agile enough to compensate for her bio-improvements — and climbed the outer walls of Santa de Nogueira . |
| 9 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 10 | Again it 's Bass , Mid and Treble and each pot has a recommended start setting of 12 o'clock to allow for cut or boost , which makes me wonder why these controls are labelled 0 to 10 — would n't -5 to +5 have been more sensible ? |
| 11 | Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out . |
| 12 | I remember in my teens being determined to do something which was not very nice , turning to her for permission and her saying " Well , I would n't do that — but I think you are old enough to decide for yourself , " and suddenly all the joy in the plan faded away and I did n't do it . |
| 13 | His brothers had not replied , and his parents wrote that they hoped he was not hurrying into marriage , but that he was old enough to decide for himself . |
| 14 | You get the kind of life your parents choose until you 're old enough to choose for yourself . |
| 15 | After all , he 's old enough to answer for his own actions . |
| 16 | ‘ Once the kids got old enough to see for themselves what he was like , they packed their bags and left . |
| 17 | Considerable concern was expressed , for example by R. H. Tawney , about the numbers of boys going from school into unskilled jobs with little prospect of advancement , from which they might be dismissed when they became old enough to qualify for higher adult earnings . |
| 18 | Females choose to give birth to their one or two young in dens dug into the snow-drifts on mountainsides of places such as the Svalbard Islands , and often stay on the islands during the Arctic summer until the cubs are old enough to fend for themselves . |
| 19 | I was hoping to film the kits growing up and discovering the world around them , but before they were old enough to fend for themselves , a fisherman trapped and killed the mother . |
| 20 | The man I have been foolish enough to fall for is incapable of trusting me . ’ |
| 21 | Sane enough to arrange for your wife to cart off the incriminating evidence to King 's Cross Station and stick it in a left-luggage locker — ’ |
| 22 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 23 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 24 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 25 | ( N. B. If a client bought one stock today , and sold another tomorrow to pay for it , the time difference served as a cover for the dealer 's churning . |
| 26 | Well er in the early days , erm there were occasions where erm if I may say so , that , that just to divert for a moment , the scheme had to have supervision , and there was an increase in the staff , the number of foremen and chargehands increased . |
| 27 | That certainly did n't sound serious enough to account for her great grief . |
| 28 | These herbs may be easy enough to distinguish for the sighted , but through the eyes of Frank Gardner , it would seem an impossible task . |
| 29 | But I 'm not clever enough to say for sure , so I keep my mouth shut . |
| 30 | What is more , we are told unequivocally that only those who are fortunate enough to live for another 30 years will be able to find out the purchase price of those companies . |