Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Supplies of bright red paint ran out in 1943 and several cars appeared painted ‘ indian red ’ , this was a red oxide , that rather resembled the oxide used for trucks by many other undertakings .
2 Er and and and because they are struggling to bring forward examples it seems to me that that rather proves the point .
3 That rather settled the problem .
4 Quite the reverse , it is possible expressly to link the concept of " relational properties " with a ( suitably modified ) pluralist thesis by arguing , for example , that the possession of a relational property of a certain kind necessarily entails the existence of more than one thing in the world .
5 Nevertheless , I. B. Cowan could publish a book in 1971 justifiably entitled The Enigma of Mary Stuart .
6 The clear aim of the vendor is to disclose as much as possible thereby reducing the potential for claims under the warranties .
7 ‘ THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ENFOLDING DARKNESS , THE INVISIBLE WINDRUSH AND RUMBLE OF SURF , THAT POWERFULLY CONCENTRATES THE MIND . ’
8 If the purpose is to write , each at our separate window , there is something about the enfolding darkness , the invisible windrush and rumble of surf , that powerfully concentrates the mind .
9 That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest .
10 That effectively ended the meeting .
11 As Erika had already made up her mind , that effectively ended the debate .
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself .
15 Fortunately , they were professional enough to do the gig , but it served no useful purpose .
16 Two movements this time : the first a clever little fantasy on Papageno 's bird-call figure — easy to follow , but just pungent enough to raise the music out of background blandness ; the second knottier , more amorphous and , for me , much less rewarding .
17 And that obviously creates the uplift in land values which finances the social structure that would be set in terms of the operational criteria for the new settlement .
18 Mm do n't think it 's dry enough to cut the grass is it ?
19 If the informed sources in Beirut er have said through the Al , the prestigious Almahan newspaper , now this is one that er that rightly predicted the release of the American hostages , Frank Reid and Robert Polehill .
20 These results suggested that open complexes formed at the φ29 P A2b and P A3 promoters are unstable , and that initiated complexes are stable enough to resist the heparin challenge and give rise to elongation complexes .
21 Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls .
22 Northward from Porta Venezia is a site with little enough to show the visitor but an impressive place in the Medieval history of both Milan and Europe .
23 High Ashdonian merely extends the principle : here , the way to form any sentence is to repeat terms such as ‘ proportional representation ’ , ‘ partnership ’ , ‘ yes , my friend ’ , and ‘ I tell you this ’ as often as possible .
24 Since the aim of the research was to illuminate the industrial relations of state enterprises by examining two corporations in considerable detail , there was a need to collect material rich enough to illustrate the nature of the processes at work .
25 Of course , this is common to many criminals who define the victim of their criminality as being rich enough to withstand the loss .
26 It is possible so to violate the state of marriage , specifically by adultery , that in those circumstances divorce is conceivable and permissible .
27 The only contribution to the present is the fact that it is possible only to reach the railway using modern transport in the form of a motor car or bus .
28 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 .
29 Once a child could walk and had , through dire necessity , learned how to shed a wet pair of training pants and put on his snow suit , he would vanish into the street , not to be seen again until lunch time ; once he was tall enough to reach the refrigerator door handle , the problem of lunch was also solved — he could get it himself .
30 Although the chosen noise should initially be loud enough to gain the baby 's attention , it should be turned down to background level after 30 seconds .
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