Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be flexible : not in terms of changing.to meet the inputs but in terms of being broad enough to channel different inputs in the required direction . |
| 2 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 3 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 4 | ‘ Vinnie had an agent who did not take the necessary precautions of being able either to edit or vet what was said on the video . |
| 5 | Robbins has credited his audience with being sophisticated enough to decode the movie without oversalting the soup . |
| 6 | You 've got ta be sad not to notice have you ? |
| 7 | These form today 's big stick : their owners hope that , by possessing the ability to kill tens of millions of people and destroy the fabric of modern industrial society , they will prevent an enemy from being stupid enough to risk all by waging all-out war . |
| 8 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |
| 9 | I know they were not complacent about the Swiss because it was only a year earlier that they had been forced to come back from being two down to snatch a vital European point against them . |
| 10 | By the way , next time a driver blocks an entrance to a property , preventing the people who live there from being able either to get in or out perhaps the driver would like to ask him or herself how they would like it . |
| 11 | Apart from being cold enough to remove your skin , there is a sinister tunnel sweeping water away on some underground journey , and although a metal grid may stop you from joining it , I have visions of diving in naked with a happy yell , only to emerge in the urinals of the aluminium smelter in Fort William . |
| 12 | Labour yesterday demanded publication of the report , which warns that British industry is in a lamentable state and will take decades before being fit enough to compete internationally . |
| 13 | The kind of woman I 'm interested in is adult enough to recognise what I want from the outset . |
| 14 | But you 've got to be first-rate academically to get into medical school . |
| 15 | The scheme aims to meet the extra needs of hypertext systems , and yet still to be simple enough to attract wide usage . |
| 16 | So it out to be easy enough to work out where ten is since bar eleven starts the fourth line . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have to be deaf not to hear his sports car roaring up , music blasting , honking his bloody horn night after night . ’ |
| 18 | You 'll have to learn to be grateful just to bear my name … |
| 19 | You 'd have to be daft not to want to give it a go . |
| 20 | No food producer who actually wants to sell his product is going to be daft enough to admit on the label that the meat contained therein predates the Gulf War , Princess Beatrice and the fall of the Berlin Wall . |
| 21 | It appears to us to be wide enough to cover the mind 's activities in all its aspects , not only the perception of physical acts and matters and the ability to form a rational judgment whether an act is right or wrong , but also the ability to exercise will-power to control physical acts in accordance with that rational judgment . |
| 22 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |
| 23 | However , the recovery is not expected to be strong enough to enable total visitor numbers for 1991 to surpass 1990 's record of 1.4 million . |
| 24 | Gardening tools have to be strong enough to take some hard wear and tear , and those made of poor-quality metal will tend to bend or break under stress . |
| 25 | It 's unlikely that they will allow you to use an arch to carry the load : the abutments are n't likely to be strong enough to resist the thrust . |
| 26 | They have to fly increasingly by the seat of their pants , knowing that their trouser-material is sometimes not going to be strong enough to hold them up . |
| 27 | For the best results , the framework has to be strong enough to support itself and two thicknesses of 12mm plasterboard . |
| 28 | And you 're going to have to be strong enough to cope with it . ’ |
| 29 | We are not going to establish British companies across Europe , let alone across the world , if our monopolies legislation disallows mergers of major companies within one industry — the only way they are going to be strong enough to do it . |
| 30 | Through assiduous exercise he came to be strong enough to ride and march with his troops . |