Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly there were signs in the late 1980s that this pattern was breaking down , if only because both superpowers were becoming too weak economically to maintain their former roles , and because the model of a world divided by the October Revolution had little relation to the realities of the late 20th century . |
| 2 | But those who obeyed had little enough to focus their blinkered eyes upon by 1929 . |
| 3 | When one finds a sympathetic platform from which to display an idea , many more ideas are stimulated which , although having no sympathetic platform , may be strong enough to create their own . |
| 4 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |
| 5 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 6 | They were often not interested enough to develop their own bona fide opinions . |
| 7 | The payment of the state non-contributory old age pension from 1909 gave elderly people a right to an income from the state , quite independent of the vicissitudes of the labour market , and this obviously increased their financial independence . |
| 8 | They have irresponsibly encouraged people to withhold payment , and then at the eleventh hour they have made payments , leaving those poorer people who were foolish enough to follow their appalling example to face the consequences of now owing a lump sum . |
| 9 | By April 1988 , on the second anniversary of the Chernobyl eruption , fear had made the previously obedient people of Kiev brave enough to hold their first post-glasnost street demonstration . |
| 10 | Certainly the only reasonable explanation for some of these occurrences ( such as those of Peregrinella ) seems to be that the organisms concerned lived in very restricted environments that did not normally get preserved , though this hardly explains their sudden appearance without obvious ancestors , with a wide but discontinuous distribution . |
| 11 | This inevitably reduces their strategic purchase on racist practices . |
| 12 | This typically depresses their eventual income in old age . |
| 13 | They now not only conduct funerals but have their own joiners and monumental masons making coffins and headstones , and some even own their own crematoria . |
| 14 | The Arab states , on the other hand , were devastated by the scale of their loss and this profoundly affected their political consciousness . |
| 15 | There was also the magnet of London and many families had adventurous members who moved into the capital during the period from about 1775 to 1825 , some considerably raising their financial and social status in doing so . |
| 16 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
| 17 | The Hainges used a special sports turf to give it its clipped , fresh-green look and make it hard-wearing enough to withstand their two children ( Martin , eight , and Carmen , 12 ) . |
| 18 | THE PANTHER Burns came to London with a fearsome reputation — folk lucky enough to witness their two previous London shows still rave about them , and each of their four LPs has achieved the full Sounds five start treatment . |
| 19 | THE PANTHER Burns came to London with a fearsome reputation — folk lucky enough to witness their two previous London shows still rave about them , and each of their four LPs has achieved the full Sounds five start treatment . |
| 20 | Equally , some people are lucky enough to find their neurotic desires and needs catered for in a major religion or political movement which is institutionalized in their society . |
| 21 | Women in tweed overcoats , men in dark melton overcoats — they seemed more overcoats than people ; the sort of people whose personalities are not large enough to dominate their outdoor clothes . |
| 22 | After a couple of weeks they are recognizable as fish , sometimes transparent , sometimes bronze , but all eventually attaining their correct adult proportions and colours . |
| 23 | After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex-Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . |
| 24 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 25 | But if the operation of the Act should prove as detrimental to the interests of trade as many of them imagined , said ‘ A Merchants Clerk ’ in his letter to The Times of 22 August 1844 , they were surely powerful enough to cause their just complaints to be heard . |
| 26 | But back in the sunlight , all quickly resume their 24-hour circadian rhythm . |
| 27 | If most early seventeenth-century English Protestants regarded Roman Catholics as their arch-enemies , a good many also saw their fellow Protestants within continental Europe as natural friends and allies . |
| 28 | UTV and Channel 4 now have their own separate sales arrangements in Dublin , and UTV is pushing itself as an all-Ireland TV medium . |
| 29 | The transnational capitalist class , fractions of the labour force , and other support strata that the TNCs have created , will all increasingly identify their own interests with those of the capitalist global system and , if necessary , against the interests of their ‘ own ’ societies as the transnational practices of the system penetrate ever deeper into the areas that most heavily impact on their daily lives . |
| 30 | Ireland , Scotland , Wales and England all proudly sport their own individual beauty . |