Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cirque was made , it seems , even before the period of glaciation , by water finding its way out from the mass if of the Monte Perdido behind and undermining the cliffs , though it was the glacier , shreds only of which are left , that eventually cleared this gigantic bowl of its debris . |
| 2 | Suppose by reorganizing production it was possible to produce at point B to the north-east of A. If David and Susie assess their own utility by the quantity of goods they themselves receive , and if they would each rather have more goods than less , B is a better allocation than A since both David and Susie get more . |
| 3 | The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care . |
| 4 | Declarer was alert enough to put this information to good use . |
| 5 | The Spanish naturally thought these irregulars were pirates and their position was certainly ambiguous . |
| 6 | They want a written constitution ( though Labour only implies this ) and a Bill of Rights . |
| 7 | And his feeling of intense satisfaction at this conclusion was only because he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision . |
| 8 | This period convinced him even more that merely eating less cereals and other more uncommon food products , such as tulip bulbs , improved the clinical condition of his patients . |
| 9 | Table 5.1. below gives some performance figures for the HWIM and RM1 lexical access components . |
| 10 | The Church was always broad enough to include such people . |
| 11 | The Committee was equivocal on this , but recommended a formulation which would be broad enough to encompass these wider factors — ‘ the balance of the woman 's mind was disturbed by reason of the effect of giving birth or circumstances consequent upon that birth ’ . |
| 12 | He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety . |
| 13 | Johnson 's contention that the USA was rich enough to provide both " guns and butter " was over-optimistic . |
| 14 | I thought we both looked pretty good : rich enough to have all the trappings , oiky enough to want to come on an Action Man course . |
| 15 | Daffodils like to be planted as early in the autumn as possible so get those in now . |
| 16 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 17 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 18 | Wycliffe walked on towards the town , but he avoided the waterfront and returned instead by the main street , which was narrow enough to give some shelter from the gale . |
| 19 | Well , because the internal speakers already run at 4 ohms , any additional speakers would create the wrong impedance and , besides , the S80 is loud enough to handle most situations without extra cabs . |
| 20 | But that only posed another question : Why so frightened ? |
| 21 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 22 | " I 've been wanting to tell you , Nenna , that I very much doubt whether you 're strong enough to undertake all the work you do on Grace . |
| 23 | He was strong enough to do that without effort . |
| 24 | Gardening tools have to be strong enough to take some hard wear and tear , and those made of poor-quality metal will tend to bend or break under stress . |
| 25 | There had to be some reason why , some factor strong enough to outweigh all his obvious qualifications . |
| 26 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 27 | No state is strong enough to play this role solo . |
| 28 | She carried a small basket in her hand containing food for her frugal evening meal , although the rancid smells around her were strong enough to diminish any desire to eat — she had not yet grown sufficiently accustomed to them to ignore them . |
| 29 | If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them . |
| 30 | John Walsh has written of Methodism earlier in the century when it was still painfully experiencing instigated mob hostility that it is " improbable that infant Methodism was strong enough to have much overall effect as an emollient to industrial disturbance , let alone prevent a general revolt " . |