Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact she was so kind to me that I became brave enough to ask a question . |
| 2 | No longer are my positive and negative leads just hanging free about to blow a fuse or allow my personal electricity to seep away . |
| 3 | Swap these over to try the other way before you decide which is best . |
| 4 | Certainly the house hardly looked large enough to support a private chapel . |
| 5 | When , even with their minimal research and development funding , some renewables have looked promising enough to threaten the nuclear hegemony their prospects have been unceremoniously ditched . |
| 6 | It used to hurt me that an African who was considered good enough to hand the cement to the man to lay the bricks could n't get the opportunity to lay the bricks himself and become a qualified tradesman . " |
| 7 | Herod Antipas , tetrarch ( a title for a ruler who was not considered important enough to have the rank of king ; again it amounted to being a ‘ governor ’ ) of Galilee . |
| 8 | We must therefore consider first how to determine the symmetry of a vibration , and secondly what the consequences of these symmetry selection rules may be . |
| 9 | Sometimes , Alex thought , eating a grape from the bowl provided by the management and then walking barefooted across to open the windows and step out on to the balcony , sometimes Nina seemed to be living on her own private planet . |
| 10 | In 1988 the Secretary of State for the Environment suggested that people were becoming homeless simply to jump the housing waiting list queue . |
| 11 | Sexually mature males are driven out of this group once they grow big enough to constitute a threat to the dominant male ( although occasionally an ageing dominant male will allow a younger male to take over his harem and will be tolerated by his successor for a while ) . |
| 12 | He who has gone through life without being tested is one who had been considered unworthy ever to gain the victory over fortune . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Theoretical considerations indicated that if the electric field applied to the surface could be made strong enough to confine the mobile electrons to a very thin layer near the semiconductor 's surface , with thickness comparable to the wavelength associated with the electrons there , then the electrons ' motion perpendicular to the surface would be ‘ quantised ’ . |
| 15 | It seemed possible then to order the past through the focus of feminism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He twisted half round to display the handcuffs on his wrists . |
| 20 | Nevertheless he seemed willing enough to accompany the Finnish detective in the dangerous climb down over the tumbling rocks to where his cousin and his cousin 's pretty , peroxided fiancée lay . |
| 21 | How many of us have felt interested enough to attend a Building Society A.G.M. provided we are receiving the interest on our deposits we think we are entitled to ? |
| 22 | In a heart-rending telephone call to a US television station , Mrs Dragseth said the US embassy was of no help , and it seemed incompetent even to register the fact of his abduction . |
| 23 | The search for practical results as well as for good science stems from the administration 's desire to use technology to revive the US economy as well as from the fact that the initiatives have grown large enough to attract the attention of Congress . |
| 24 | It turns out that we went far enough with [ an experimental project ] to determine that , unfortunately , it was going to be too expensive and could not be made large enough to approach the market as a whole . |
| 25 | Timothy may even feel well enough to spend the afternoon by the pool , provided he does n't try to do anything too energetic , like diving , for instance . ’ |
| 26 | They do n't appear good enough to win the title yet with a crop of youngsters emerging and a new maturity in central midfielder Dennis Wise , they are hard to beat . |
| 27 | Even though I can say they are eager to do it , a lot of people in authority do n't feel confident enough to sign a cheque . |
| 28 | When , however , a sentence " has time " to introduce the supernumerary information contained in a non-restrictive clause , but apparently fails to introduce the information on which the definite article relies , despite the definiteness being felt important enough to deserve an intensifier , then the sentence has a dislocated feel to it and the very is left dangling ; this is the case of sentence ( 23 ) . |
| 29 | If if it seemed advisable not to eat the fish , would that be a big problem for the ? |
| 30 | But he seemed reluctant even to enter the little room . |