Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh right , what saying ? , you 're not brainy enough to go to college |
| 2 | The novel argues in cold , unremitting fidelity to its own thesis that in life the evil may in the end go unpunished and live happily ever after ; that the truly self-sufficient being , if he anywhere existed , would be ultimately inviolable , fearing neither reproach nor self-reproach ; and that those who are strong enough to live without sympathy are forever beyond the reach of compassion or revenge . |
| 3 | Though everyone seemed to despise Nigel , Charles had n't met anyone whose feeling seemed strong enough to amount to hatred . |
| 4 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 5 | Again it 's Bass , Mid and Treble and each pot has a recommended start setting of 12 o'clock to allow for cut or boost , which makes me wonder why these controls are labelled 0 to 10 — would n't -5 to +5 have been more sensible ? |
| 6 | We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school . |
| 7 | When his own son was old enough to go to school , Alexia took up painting , working her way away from representational landscapes into suggestive abstracts based on the British countryside . |
| 8 | By the time you were four and old enough to go to school you were practised at enticing the dogs in to be fed , undetected . |
| 9 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 10 | The rate has been raised quite high enough to deal with overheating in the domestic economy . |
| 11 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 12 | The scheme had been widely approved : now as always Edward was careful not to proceed without consent , and had the scheme worked it would have proved highly lucrative . |
| 13 | However , the party was very careful not to support in principle ministerial contact with the PLO , a stance which clearly angered Weizmann . |
| 14 | We must be careful not to speak of oil and cereal needs which may be very different from consumption . |
| 15 | Rabbits would dash out of their losing darkness , and the village boys would chase them with sticks and yells , careful not to get in front of the two who had the guns . |
| 16 | This is easy enough to use in theory and works effectively . |
| 17 | They form a rough diamond shape , and are in the same × 12 field , so that they are easy enough to recognize in spite of their dimness . |
| 18 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 19 | This is simple enough to test by observation . |
| 20 | Those trapped in the crush at Hillsborough who were fortunate enough to escape without injury have no claim in respect of the distress they suffered in what must have been a truly terrifying experience . |
| 21 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 22 | Labour like to talk about unemployment but , while the Conservative Government works to bring unemployment down , the Labour Party are busily embracing policies to put the unemployment rate up . |
| 23 | It is hard enough to cope on invalidity benefits at the moment and any cuts or taxes will make life very difficult . |
| 24 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for a period of more than 14 consecutive days , then your monthly Home Improvement Loan repayments will be made for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 25 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for any period of more than 14 consecutive days , then the cover will pay your monthly loan repayments for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 26 | He 'll give the Colonel every chance to prove that he 's fit enough to return to work . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's up to his doctor to decide if he 'll be fit enough to return to work . |
| 28 | I was told I would n't be fit enough to go to college . |
| 29 | If you 're lucky enough to live at home , or you have your own room in college or good lodgings , you may prefer to study there ( see also Chapter 2 on accommodation ) . |
| 30 | Some deliberate fixed capacitance is incorporated in parallel with R 1 , firstly to make the performance sufficiently independent of connections to the output and , secondly , to render the value of C 2 that satisfies equation ( 8.3 ) large enough to implement in practice , especially when the attenuation is large so that and . |