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 | WELL , we 're back to the time of year when , hopefully , it will be warm and dry enough to get a barbecue organised . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd think someone rich enough to own a rig like this could afford a pair of fenders . ’ |
| 6 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | That only lasted a year and a half . |
| 14 | But that only lasted a week or two , did n't it ? |
| 15 | ‘ That only lasted a week last time , ’ Mandy taunted , with no concern at all . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This sense is strong enough to motivate a succession of attempts to find what is interesting . |
| 18 | The solution was a watch with a magnetic field strong enough to undo a zip . |
| 19 | I know now what her power is strong enough to shatter a man 's mind and cast him from this world . |
| 20 | He even felt strong enough to issue a threat . |
| 21 | But what could be strong enough to drive a man from his homeland , to face terrible dangers in the skies ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oliver Tambo staggers on as president of the ANC , though he is hardly strong enough to deliver a speech . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I pushed with both hands but I was n't strong enough to get a squeak out of it . |
| 27 | It was explained to me that over the years all the planes on the green sward had landed by mistake , assuming that it would be solid enough to allow a take-off . |
| 28 | This is home video , and if the person is not familiar with the text , then it is possible perhaps to have a libretto and translation to one side . |
| 29 | This presumably discouraged a liking for beer . |
| 30 | This presumably reflected a belief either that the damage caused by opencasting had been exaggerated by Flowers or that this damage was fully justified by the perceived benefits gained from increased production . |