Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Christmas and the New Year is the peak booking season , so we are announcing this now to stimulate maximum interest , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 2 | He who has gone through life without being tested is one who had been considered unworthy ever to gain the victory over fortune . |
| 3 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 4 | ‘ Usually the turning is all done right when it first spins , we 're doing that only to help turn the bike . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 're saying that just to frighten me . ’ |
| 6 | Theoretical considerations indicated that if the electric field applied to the surface could be made strong enough to confine the mobile electrons to a very thin layer near the semiconductor 's surface , with thickness comparable to the wavelength associated with the electrons there , then the electrons ' motion perpendicular to the surface would be ‘ quantised ’ . |
| 7 | Radar can also yield images , but whereas a radio telescope or a group of such telescopes can yield an image of an object in an analogous way to a conventional telescope , a radar pulse from the Earth can not be made narrow enough to select anything other than the whole disc of the planet , except for the Moon where small areas can be examined because of its large angular diameter . |
| 8 | It turns out that we went far enough with [ an experimental project ] to determine that , unfortunately , it was going to be too expensive and could not be made large enough to approach the market as a whole . |
| 9 | Consistent with this , the results of recent research on Kuwait oil fires indicate that the smoke did not appear to be rising high enough to reach the stratosphere , where transport may occur over considerable distances with soot particles remaining for months . |
| 10 | ‘ So it might , ’ said Ramses , ‘ if anyone could be found stupid enough to lend to the Khedive . ’ |
| 11 | Well I 'm taking four anyway to see what happens and the booklet . |
| 12 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 13 | It was the sordid exhaustion of poverty , of overwork , of perpetual near-incarceration , of eternal nagging demands , and to be left alone just to sit for perhaps only five minutes in unthinking apathy was her sole remaining desire . |
| 14 | Talks on a merger between the polytechnics ' and the universities ' admissions systems now seem to be in trouble , and many students will be left unsure how to go about applying to the new universities . |
| 15 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 16 | In 1988 the Secretary of State for the Environment suggested that people were becoming homeless simply to jump the housing waiting list queue . |
| 17 | At sixteen or seventeen many adolescents in the sample were considered old enough to make up their own minds about issues such as smoking , exercise , and diet ; it was often left entirely up to them to contact doctors , dentists , and sometimes schools for undiscovered GCSE results . |
| 18 | When , however , a sentence " has time " to introduce the supernumerary information contained in a non-restrictive clause , but apparently fails to introduce the information on which the definite article relies , despite the definiteness being felt important enough to deserve an intensifier , then the sentence has a dislocated feel to it and the very is left dangling ; this is the case of sentence ( 23 ) . |
| 19 | No man can have two homes , and the children were getting old enough to ask where their father was . ’ |
| 20 | Like everyone else , I 'd come to Hawaii for the waves , but some clandestine part of me had been plotting all along to make love on the beach beneath a palm tree . |
| 21 | Not only that ; we would be breaking the law if we ‘ interfered ’ with him in any way ; the sand lizard is considered rare enough to have been designated a ‘ protected species ’ ( Wildlife and Countryside Act , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | To add to the uncertainty , the age at which a person is considered old enough to vote may be different from that at which they are allowed to marry or fight for their country . |
| 23 | The clear inference is that the nuclear threshold is becoming robust enough to withstand even fairly overt military challenges . |
| 24 | It is becoming fashionable again to grow fruit and vegetables in the back garden . |
| 25 | The game plan is to grow big enough to threaten even the city giants . |
| 26 | However , the organizers must ensure as in all other types of issue that the ownership is spread wide enough to create a liquid market . |
| 27 | Just as the wall belongs to every Berliner on both sides , East and West , so does the entire site which , which now is left fallow so to speak . |
| 28 | Shops like these are the only outlets for such abominations , and the only way you can stop the terrors of opening horrible gifts and feigning delight is to become rich enough to buy them out and turn them into cake shops . |
| 29 | Although at one time it was considered relevant only to study child language when words appeared , we are now able to consider language development as a continuous process from birth . |
| 30 | It used to hurt me that an African who was considered good enough to hand the cement to the man to lay the bricks could n't get the opportunity to lay the bricks himself and become a qualified tradesman . " |