Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite the reverse , it is possible expressly to link the concept of " relational properties " with a ( suitably modified ) pluralist thesis by arguing , for example , that the possession of a relational property of a certain kind necessarily entails the existence of more than one thing in the world . |
| 2 | Wigan are 7-4 on to win the First Division championship with Corals . |
| 3 | This definition is clarified when Sadat turns off the road through an entrance discreet enough to admit the car with only a centimetre on either side . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a waste of money , ’ said Harriet , looking out of the window at the parkland , which seemed lush enough to feed the whole of the East End of London until the next war . |
| 5 | Either way their lives are outstanding enough to capture the popular imagination ; they are remembered and they become part of the town 's history . |
| 6 | In the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 , the tenancy of Downing Street changed between Labour and Conservative four times , an average occupancy of only five years : the Great and Good were trying to produce policies which would be durable enough to survive the swings . |
| 7 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 8 | Fortunately , they were professional enough to do the gig , but it served no useful purpose . |
| 9 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 10 | Two movements this time : the first a clever little fantasy on Papageno 's bird-call figure — easy to follow , but just pungent enough to raise the music out of background blandness ; the second knottier , more amorphous and , for me , much less rewarding . |
| 11 | Mm do n't think it 's dry enough to cut the grass is it ? |
| 12 | It is comprehensive and technical enough to meet the needs of professionals and is easy to use . |
| 13 | These results suggested that open complexes formed at the φ29 P A2b and P A3 promoters are unstable , and that initiated complexes are stable enough to resist the heparin challenge and give rise to elongation complexes . |
| 14 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 15 | Northward from Porta Venezia is a site with little enough to show the visitor but an impressive place in the Medieval history of both Milan and Europe . |
| 16 | The range of academic perspectives covered is broad enough to satisfy the literary specialist 's desire that literature should relate to the world , yet the comparatively rigorous analytical approach to literary studies is very appealing to those who , like myself , have interests which are primarily linguistic and communicative rather than literary . |
| 17 | I reminded myself that if Conchis was rich enough to own Modiglianis and Bonnards , he was rich enough to pick the very best in mistresses . |
| 18 | Since the aim of the research was to illuminate the industrial relations of state enterprises by examining two corporations in considerable detail , there was a need to collect material rich enough to illustrate the nature of the processes at work . |
| 19 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 20 | Grandfather had been rich enough to buy the many diamonds it took to make it up . |
| 21 | Just as he had been rich enough to build The Towers … . |
| 22 | Of course , this is common to many criminals who define the victim of their criminality as being rich enough to withstand the loss . |
| 23 | The First Aid bloke coming to his rescue almost did the same , but was intact enough to lead the dazed lad down the players ' tunnel . |
| 24 | It is possible so to violate the state of marriage , specifically by adultery , that in those circumstances divorce is conceivable and permissible . |
| 25 | The only contribution to the present is the fact that it is possible only to reach the railway using modern transport in the form of a motor car or bus . |
| 26 | I said I 'd meet with them at eleven o'clock to arrange the details . ’ |
| 27 | On occasion we were able to produce small fragments of intact retina that were suitable for microspectrophotometry and yet were extensive enough to answer the present question . |
| 28 | It 's important to choose a variety that will grow tall enough to reach the surface as you can not raise such plants on bricks . |
| 29 | Once a child could walk and had , through dire necessity , learned how to shed a wet pair of training pants and put on his snow suit , he would vanish into the street , not to be seen again until lunch time ; once he was tall enough to reach the refrigerator door handle , the problem of lunch was also solved — he could get it himself . |
| 30 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |