Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear M. Sorry not to have answered letter will do so to-morrow evening . |
| 2 | Being a large station , the many senior officers who come and go at Easton act as a constant and visible reminder to constables of the structures of power and authority in the station , and a prominent item in the conversations of ordinary policemen and women is complaints against ‘ the authorities ’ , which is an indexical category flexible enough to include everyone above their own level . |
| 3 | Among Easton 's section police ‘ common sense ’ subsumes all competences , being an indexical category flexible enough to include different sorts of skills , all of which are described as constituting common sense . |
| 4 | Do n't pull the wool tight — leave loops between each stitch big enough to put your little finger into . |
| 5 | The overall aim appears to be to stop the growth of left-wing political organizations strong enough to challenge both the power of the military and the appallingly low wages and living conditions of plantation workers . |
| 6 | You may , looking back at the stories about those two ( and you should have read them , twice over ) think they are no more than high old eccentrics bright enough to solve intriguing cases . |
| 7 | The solution was a watch with a magnetic field strong enough to undo a zip . |
| 8 | By July 1989 it was estimated that the country possessed foreign exchange sufficient only to cover three weeks ' worth of imports . |
| 9 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 10 | There had to be some reason why , some factor strong enough to outweigh all his obvious qualifications . |
| 11 | However , he did consider this event important enough to send a report to an Australian station on Lord Howe Island . |
| 12 | Maybe there are some people gullible enough to believe that . |
| 13 | There were few children lucky enough to visit the cinema mid-week , as he so often did , and that made Frankie feel particularly privileged . |
| 14 | People often feel that it is in some way distasteful deliberately to use your behaviour to influence others and this also leads to the conclusion that manipulating behaviour is unethical . |
| 15 | Gambon , 51 , is one of the few actors big enough to play the mountainous Maxwell . |
| 16 | Here he obviously considered the pharmaceutical value of this plant important enough to include an illustration , and he felt the economic significance of Rubia tinctorum , madder , warranted an engraving by John Sebastian Miller , from Hortus Cliffortianus . |
| 17 | This [ contemporary ] condition … greatly puzzles the now small body of surviving constitutionalists old enough to remember the sentiment of the mid-Victorian era , with its prevalent belief that to imitate the forms , or at any rate to adopt the spirit of the English constitution , was the best method whereby to confer upon the people of any civilised country the combined blessings of order and of progress . |
| 18 | When it is completed it will boast an indoor hall large enough to take two full-size tennis courts , social rooms , a bar and a synthetic outdoor playing pitch . |
| 19 | DEPORTIVO Coruna underlined their Spanish championship aspirations by thrashing Real Sociedad 5-1 yesterday to consolidate their position at the top of the league . |
| 20 | One answer to it might be that there are systemic forces strong enough to propel the nation states through their orbits , rather as if they were planets in a solar system in dynamic equilibrium . |
| 21 | But religious language not only provided a link between different political constituencies , it offered a set of concepts , a rhetoric of resistance and a strength of moral certainty powerful enough to take on the weight of the medical and political establishment . |
| 22 | not a tremendous amount new just to get there |
| 23 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 24 | This suggests that the subducted sediment somehow survived as a chemically and physically distinct region large enough to avoid obliteration by diffusion . |
| 25 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 26 | ACTRESS Julia Roberts should make Pretty Woman 2 quickly to revive her flagging career , a magazine survey has urged . |
| 27 | Turning to Charles Kettering , who 'd invented an electric motor small enough to power a National Cash Register , Leland asked if something similar could be adapted to the internal combustion engine . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 29 | There is little evidence available either to assess the magnitude of any labour market disincentives created by existing disability benefits or to predict the impact of the proposed reforms on the employment and incomes of people with disabilities . |
| 30 | It was also recommended that the Committee should seek to make some of its existing activities profitable enough to employ a social development director from its own resources . |