Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perpetual spinach and carrots will tolerate growing close together , but any flowering plant wants elbow room if it is to develop a stem strong enough to support the branches that will spring from it . |
| 2 | Is the government 's tax base strong enough to support a planned expansion of services ? |
| 3 | It was also recommended that the Committee should seek to make some of its existing activities profitable enough to employ a social development director from its own resources . |
| 4 | The solution was a watch with a magnetic field strong enough to undo a zip . |
| 5 | The question we are entitled to ask is : are new values strong enough to hold the old institutions together ? |
| 6 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It dates back to 1795 and was issued by the King 's Theatre in London 's Haymarket , and was designed as a throw-away item for theatre-goers rich enough to book a box for the season at the kingly sum of 2,500 guineas . |
| 9 | He found words strong enough to describe a " torrent " which " bore down everything in its way " , a " great current " and " an extraordinary agitation " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Unless local government is organized to meet the needs of the future , and in particular is organized in units large enough to match the technical and administrative requirements of the services which it administers , its powers must diminish , and with it the power of local democracy … |
| 12 | Mix the wine , sugar , and spices in a saucepan large enough to hold the pears upright . |
| 13 | .. 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 . ’ |
| 14 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 15 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 16 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |
| 17 | The provision of homes small enough to provide a reasonable place of residence was , and still is , insufficient for all mentally handicapped people in mental handicap hospitals to leave them . |
| 18 | The only isotope of radon abundant enough to cause a health problem is & sup222 ; Rn . |
| 19 | In the highly charged atmosphere of the 1840s , Owen served his conservative masters well by steadfastly blocking the radicals ' attempts to postulate relationships close enough to justify the theory of transmutation . |
| 20 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 21 | Yet it is equally possible to see the faults lying with industry in its failure to provide opportunities attractive enough to overcome the alleged prejudice against it . |
| 22 | Members will be asked to vote on the following actions which are designed to achieve a reversal of the decision made at F&S on 5 March 1991 not to implement the Shop 's proposal for a reduction in pay differentials . |
| 23 | This [ contemporary ] condition … greatly puzzles the now small body of surviving constitutionalists old enough to remember the sentiment of the mid-Victorian era , with its prevalent belief that to imitate the forms , or at any rate to adopt the spirit of the English constitution , was the best method whereby to confer upon the people of any civilised country the combined blessings of order and of progress . |
| 24 | The difficulty with a single-tier system is to arrive at areas large enough to obtain the benefits of unifying the provision of services requiring an extensive area for their efficient operation , yet small enough to form a have for local democratic involvement . |
| 25 | He continued to speculate on the subject , and wrote letters to various journals , but seems to have done little further practical work until 1849 , when a glider large enough to carry a small boy was launched in free flight at Brompton . |
| 26 | Take a new but washed tea towel or piece of muslin large enough to hold the cake and moisten with half of the remaining bourbon . |
| 27 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 28 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 29 | Does he recall that he replied that he did not consider those circumstances grim enough to undertake an economic initiative for Paisley ? |
| 30 | The Crimean Supreme Soviet had voted on July 9 not to hold the referendum on independence planned for Aug. 2 . |