Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 2 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 3 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 4 | It should be dry enough to brush off the slabs without staining |
| 5 | The mortar should be dry enough to brush off the paving without staining the slabs . |
| 6 | As soon as the soil is dry enough to rake towards the end of the month , do n't delay sowing such hardy crops as cabbage , non-bolting beetroot , lettuce , spinach , peas and broad beans . |
| 7 | There had been little enough to choose between the two killings , yet all the difference in the world between the fates of those responsible : the one retired with honours , the other shot by firing squad at the age of twenty-eight . |
| 8 | Eleanor would have been broad-minded enough to laugh at the whole tale . |
| 9 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 10 | However , once more , it is unknown how often silent evasion went undetected : the official machinery was not extensive enough to check on the activities of all small employers . |
| 11 | This truck stood 9in from the floor , and was constructed to carry two milk churns and , at the same time was narrow enough to pass through the end gangways , so that the churns could be taken from one end of the train to the other . |
| 12 | Pray God to purify and refine them , so that they can be sharp enough and strong enough to cleave like a great blade through the selfishness . |
| 13 | ‘ That is simply not strong enough to cope with the difficult challenges in front of us . |
| 14 | The idea of settling Jews in Palestine , the British Foreign Office cabled two of its ambassadors in 1916 , ‘ might be made far more attractive to the majority of Jews if it held out to them the prospect that when in course of time the Jewish colonists in Palestine grew strong enough to cope with the Arab population they may be allowed to take the management of the internal affairs of Palestine … into their own hands … |
| 15 | Unless local Bars are then strong enough to cope with the demand for advocacy , this will pass more and more to the solicitors . |
| 16 | Their first attempts to invent an anti-hero strong enough to vie with the popularity of Tarzan and Superman , and soft enough to melt the hearts of children , did not quite come off : ‘ I drew him bigger and more handsome . |
| 17 | When the time came for the cake to be cut , Breeze handed the knife to Susan — but her wrists were not strong enough to saw through the solid mass . |
| 18 | Quite strong enough to deal with a man like Nathan Bryce . |
| 19 | Nor is it unreasonable to assume that given a sufficient respite they hoped that Britain 's own nuclear force might become strong enough to act as a deterrent to a Soviet attack on the home islands . |
| 20 | If you think about it , as you were n't strong enough to respond on the first round , you can hardly want to redouble now to play . |
| 21 | Professional advice needs to be taken to check that the foundations under the playground are strong enough to serve as a vehicle park . |
| 22 | This new coalition may not , however , be strong enough to last in the face of increasing economic decline and continued cut-backs in local authority expenditure . |
| 23 | However , he also argued that , under imperial initiative , the process of social transformation in India could not be complete without either a proletarian revolution in Britain or ‘ the Hindoos themselves … grown strong enough to throw off the English yoke altogether ’ . |
| 24 | The woman can still choose to turn away completely , or if the male drive is not strong enough to break through the barriers , the couple may be mismatched and the interaction die away . |
| 25 | I mean young women , strong enough to breed like the cows every spring time and dig the fields in between — is n't that what they want in Australia , for all those men ? |
| 26 | Dacia was not strong enough to beat off the barbarians , and not rich enough to satisfy them once they had conquered it . |
| 27 | The diesel engine burns its fuel so much more efficiently that its hydro carbon and carbon monoxide emisions are low enough to dispense with a two way catalytic converter . |
| 28 | It might have been OK for the prairies , but bottom was n't low enough to cope with the hills of Nanaimo . |
| 29 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |
| 30 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |