Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead . |
| 2 | I hoped this trench was deep enough , and the roof strong enough to give us some protection from the increasing mortar fire that was now coming our way . |
| 3 | ‘ That is easy — make the arch in the shape of a bent tree trunk , and make holes in the branches big enough to place pots of water , to make the flowers stay fresh for longer . ’ |
| 4 | Are the bedrooms large enough to contain , say , two single beds ? |
| 5 | .. our task in this parliament is to create the force powerful enough to remove the Tories ; to assemble the policies capable of sustaining a different government ; and to draw together the forces in Britain which will bring change and reform . ’ |
| 6 | I was hanging from my wing down the length of the pole , the wind strong enough to pull and toss my body against it , and each time it did the pain at my wing was so terrible that I cried out . |
| 7 | Canning , freezing , drying , irradiation and the addition of preservatives , both natural and chemical , are just some of the methods available today to ensure availability of food . |
| 8 | The homeostat , the automaton concerned only to preserve its own equilibrium , was never a convincing model of human behaviour . |
| 9 | Well why was the boy pleased then to show his ugly teeth ? |
| 10 | So powerful a mixture of love and rejection was both perplexing and formative , leaving the child uncertain where to attach his affections , and desperate in his search for acceptance and approval . |
| 11 | The Director General of Fair Trading has indicated that joint ventures can be made the subject of a direction ( under section 21(2) of the Act ) by the Secretary of State to the Director General not to take proceedings before the Court . |
| 12 | All we have are accounts , and in that part of the study our contrasting sources are those within the class and its social order , and those without , including , of course , the teacher unfortunate enough to have to tangle with the kids whose daily life-situation that classroom encompasses . |
| 13 | Was the message or the product important enough to present properly ? |
| 14 | Just drill a hole in the middle of the lid large enough to take a 15mm 90 degree plastic elbow , to which the pipe is then fitted with another elbow at the top . |
| 15 | : The decision by the Attorney General not to prosecute would be construed as a vindication of the legality of the ‘ arrest ambush ’ at William Black 's cottage . |
| 16 | Here the dog will have the benefit of family companionship , but it is best to advise the person concerned not to let your pet off the leash when taking it for a walk outside . |
| 17 | War boars are evil minded creatures that will take every opportunity to maim , bite , and kick their Orc masters but this does n't really bother the Orcs who are on the whole sensible enough to keep out of the way . |
| 18 | Hitachi have also taken the trouble to make the control large enough to operate when wearing thick gloves . |
| 19 | The 10% of the people rich enough to have savings accounts will be yelling for their money . |
| 20 | Was the movement strong enough to make the boat pull the iron stanchions free of the bank ? |
| 21 | Upon the expiry of the new lease , unless the Philippines decided unilaterally to grant continued US access to the bases , there would be " an orderly and expeditious US withdrawal " beginning at the end of the 10th year ; no timescale for the completion of the evacuation was specified . |
| 22 | The procedure was quite simple : the inhabitants of any given building were informed of its imminent demise , sometimes by officials , sometimes by the arrival of earth-moving equipment which dug holes next to the cottages large enough to accommodate the rubble after the individual cottages had been bulldozed into them . |
| 23 | Angel Four eased the door open enough to allow him to slip quickly into the room beyond . |
| 24 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 25 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 26 | The world knows Danny Baker as Dunny Bayker , old , unfashionable rent-a-gob Cockney git on radio and television , current holder of the Radio Personality Of The Year award and the man daft enough to present The Game , a football series composed entirely of contests between pub sides on East London 's Hackney Marshes . |
| 27 | Yet with a frail woman 's tenderness that could surely be touched by the man clever enough to find the way . |
| 28 | This gets the oil hot enough to evaporate any moisture that reacts to form acids in the engine . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman well knows that there has been a dramatic increase in national health service spending on any measure one cares to take , far and above the amount necessary either to keep pace with the general level of inflation or to keep pace with the level of inflation in medical costs . |
| 30 | If I do n't persuade my father to sell you the club , you 'll manufacture enough fake information to make the police suspicious enough to close me down ? ’ |