Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 2 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 3 | The wheel advanced , or ‘ escaped ’ , by the space of one tooth for each to-and-fro oscillation of the foliot . |
| 4 | A narrow social grouping just does n't produce a rich enough mixture of ability and talent to regenerate a country . |
| 5 | There were grounds for believing that only fear of the consequences of dismantling UNRWA for the stability of the host governments guaranteed the perpetuation of its services , pending a solution to the refugee problem . |
| 6 | It rests at an angle , it rests on the er ladders of course because they are ang er the ladders are at an angle like that so part of the weight 's taken by the actual ladders . |
| 7 | In the school system , many teachers do not have a strong enough grasp of the language to teach in it effectively . |
| 8 | If you have a strong enough army of voluntary workers you can conquer the world , or even turn the People 's Republic of Islington blue ! |
| 9 | 1.6.8 shall make available to a camera-ready copy of the English only version of the Documentation . |
| 10 | He longed to discuss Meredith further , his background , his opinions — on the surface he sounded a sensible enough sort of fellow but he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 11 | Young Ben Titford was born and raised in smelly , noisy Pig Street — a lively enough corner of the world , perhaps , but not the healthiest of places for all that . |
| 12 | It may well be , in any case , that we now have a high enough proportion of school-leavers in cap and gown . |
| 13 | The real trick is then to sustain a high enough level of air play , press and TV to allow the record to ‘ cross-over ’ and appeal to people other than the band 's fans . |
| 14 | This is a high enough level of protection to control the diseases and prevent epidemics devastating whole communities . |
| 15 | All three address the problem that high achievement in school science and mathematics depend on students having achieved a high enough level of intellectual ability by the time they are 14 . |
| 16 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 17 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 18 | We have , after all , a meagre enough amount of free time . |
| 19 | At the same time , there is an ambiguity in this backwards opening of the canon . |
| 20 | This entailed , first , an attack on the Messines Ridge to straighten the salient just south of Ypres which included the towns of Messines and Wytschaete . |
| 21 | Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind . |
| 22 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years . |
| 23 | And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ? |
| 24 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 25 | And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ? |
| 26 | Manchester was unlucky to be in the strongest ever field of candidates for an Olympic Games , Jim Knight I R N Tokyo . |
| 27 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 28 | As the proposed grant for 93–94 from Christian Aid was so large , at £50,000 , the Committee was asked to consider the proposal in advance , and give some now indication of whether it would support the request when it came to committee for approval next year . |
| 29 | It 's quite interesting though sort of thinking |
| 30 | And er get and then strip this er at the side , cos a girl used to be at the front to strip all this here lace of these here pins . |