Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually supergrains of matter coalesced until the rocky fragments became large enough to attract more materials with gravity accreting at a faster and faster rate until they became full-sized planets . |
| 2 | ‘ Once the kids got old enough to see for themselves what he was like , they packed their bags and left . |
| 3 | ‘ The Crate combo looks rugged enough to chuck in and out of the back of the car and take some general punishment , so that 's good . |
| 4 | Eleanor seemed anxious not to lose sympathy . |
| 5 | Only after the Uprising had established new political realities did the PLO feel strong enough to concede the demands made by Western nations — renouncing terrorism , accepting 242 and recognizing Israel more explicitly than before . |
| 6 | Not only that , the civil servants entrusted with carrying out the auction seem unclear how to do the job . |
| 7 | The living turtles are placed on burning coals and heated until their top and bottom shells become malleable enough to rip off . |
| 8 | By the spring of 1967 , it seemed that Ceauşescu felt confident enough to reiterate Dej 's insistence on Romania 's independence from the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | And being with Gittel was like — oh , I do n't know the right words-like the first day when the sun turns warm enough to start the ice melting off the eaves . |
| 10 | And they head into the 1993 campaign looking good enough to make it a re-match . |
| 11 | And they head into the 1993 campaign looking good enough to make it a re-match . |
| 12 | Gennaro seemed unsure how to react to this . |
| 13 | For the first time Aranyos seemed uncertain how to proceed , sucking his lip thoughtfully for several seconds before continuing , ‘ It involves looking into a curious business which could prove to be a complete dead end , namely an attack on a girl in the Bauernmarkt last Saturday evening . |
| 14 | Two or three drinks later Sandison felt relaxed enough to ask Maidstone about the other British in Naples . |
| 15 | For art 's sake , Yeats held on to the myth of his high , unrequited love ( he even proposed marriage to Maud 's daughter when the child grew old enough to look just like her mother did , so long ago ) . |
| 16 | By October 1964 in the complex shifting sands of Ugandan parliamentary politics this alignment changed to one in which Obote felt strong enough to break his alliance with the kabaka , with whom he moved into a position of open enmity . |
| 17 | Suitably armed , the Princess felt confident enough to write a long and detailed rejoinder to her irate father-in-law which effectively spelled out the way she felt she had been treated by husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 18 | The issue proved serious enough to force Miyazawa to abandon the government 's controversial bill authorizing Self Defence Force personnel to join UN-sponsored peacekeeping operations overseas . |
| 19 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 20 | Salisbury looks good enough to stay for a while , although he briefly gives Sussex once again two players with three initials who have each played for England only once , the other being A.C.S. Pigott . |
| 21 | By and large , the academic community seems content simply to accommodate to the instrumental needs of post-industrial society . |
| 22 | Enough there for a painting — but for the most part there is an awful lot of nothing and no canvas seems big enough to contain it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 25 | Information offered by the Committee 's membership proved substantial enough to suggest something unprecedented was occurring in the borough , but not accurate enough to remove uncertainty and speculation about the size of the heroin problem . |
| 26 | The support post proved successful enough to establish Manchester as a national datasets centre with considerable expertise in handling and analysing Census data . |
| 27 | The courts construed this broadly to include the documents which initiated the proceedings , the pleadings and the adjudication . |
| 28 | The current function calls this twice to obtain expsrL and expsrH and defines the ‘ good ’ exposure as a suitable point between them . |
| 29 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 30 | No policeman seemed brave enough to bar his way . |