Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You 've got ta be sad not to notice have you ? |
| 2 | But you 've got to be first-rate academically to get into medical school . |
| 3 | The scheme aims to meet the extra needs of hypertext systems , and yet still to be simple enough to attract wide usage . |
| 4 | So it out to be easy enough to work out where ten is since bar eleven starts the fourth line . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have to be deaf not to hear his sports car roaring up , music blasting , honking his bloody horn night after night . ’ |
| 6 | You 'll have to learn to be grateful just to bear my name … |
| 7 | You 'd have to be daft not to want to give it a go . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For the best results , the framework has to be strong enough to support itself and two thicknesses of 12mm plasterboard . |
| 16 | And you 're going to have to be strong enough to cope with it . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Through assiduous exercise he came to be strong enough to ride and march with his troops . |
| 19 | Given that they are working with a small sample and that the likelihood ratio test is a large sample test , ADD do not consider the evidence to be strong enough to reject the null hypothesis . |
| 20 | It follows that the APB 's findings , once the consultation period and subsequent deliberations are over , will have to be strong enough to convince the legislators of a public interest need to make changes . |
| 21 | Even the agitations of the women 's movement would have warranted little more than a raised eyebrow from a lass in a Salvation Army bonnet that had to be strong enough to protect the head of the wearer from brick bats and other missiles . |
| 22 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 23 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd better rest if you want to be well enough to travel tomorrow , ’ she suggested coldly . |
| 25 | Smallfry said that she was a wicked old woman who pretended to be nice just to trick people into liking her and believing her lies . |
| 26 | For all the talk of Welsh rebirth , Scotland 's performance ought to be good enough to set up the Triple Crown chance at Twickenham next month . |
| 27 | It decided me that I was n't going to be good enough to make the grade . |
| 28 | Tell Nettie that Mr MacKay has arrived , and ask her to be good enough to bring us some tea . ’ |
| 29 | It might be thought that a larger population would create a larger labour force and market , thereby increasing the level of economic welfare in LDCs ; however , it is essential for other resources ( land , capital and enterprise ) to be available also to generate income and wealth through productive enterprise . |
| 30 | And are you able to tell me , Inspector , how a hundred and fifty year old dress sword came to be sharp enough to sever a man 's head ? ’ |