Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His obituary , written by Allan Hayhurst for The British Deaf News of March 1955 , says of him : In Ernest Ayliffe the Deaf instinctively recognised a champion . |
| 2 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 3 | In a free enterprise economy it would be profitable only to supply a fraction of the amount to which the government is currently committed . |
| 4 | And , and erm because it 's all mass produced er they can actually build a nuclear power station for half the price that we can that obviously has an effect on the economics . |
| 5 | WELL , we 're back to the time of year when , hopefully , it will be warm and dry enough to get a barbecue organised . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd think someone rich enough to own a rig like this could afford a pair of fenders . ’ |
| 7 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 8 | If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights . |
| 9 | If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights . |
| 10 | If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights . |
| 11 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 14 | That only lasted a year and a half . |
| 15 | But that only lasted a week or two , did n't it ? |
| 16 | ‘ That only lasted a week last time , ’ Mandy taunted , with no concern at all . |
| 17 | By the end of the year , Biya felt strong enough to force a showdown with Ahidjo and the latter lost the position of party chairman while still abroad . |
| 18 | This sense is strong enough to motivate a succession of attempts to find what is interesting . |
| 19 | The solution was a watch with a magnetic field strong enough to undo a zip . |
| 20 | I know now what her power is strong enough to shatter a man 's mind and cast him from this world . |
| 21 | He even felt strong enough to issue a threat . |
| 22 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |
| 23 | But what could be strong enough to drive a man from his homeland , to face terrible dangers in the skies ? |
| 24 | Initially , Chilton has only been able to persuade the makers to turn out spools of line with a 70lb breaking strain , strong enough to tow a boat . |
| 25 | Oliver Tambo staggers on as president of the ANC , though he is hardly strong enough to deliver a speech . |
| 26 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |
| 27 | McCrory , 28 , quit to the ring after being knocked out in two rounds by Lewis 21 months ago but trimmed back down to cruiser and felt strong enough to make a comeback . |
| 28 | I pushed with both hands but I was n't strong enough to get a squeak out of it . |
| 29 | However , by 1981 , in the context of wider cultural and social movements to the right , the proponents of the older conception of English felt strong enough to launch an attack on the new pluralism be grounded firmly in the study of the " classics of English literature . " |
| 30 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |