Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are few enough references to international hostilities in the novels of Jane Austen , or signs of distress in the great landscape and portrait paintings of the age . |
| 2 | In the 1912 London dock strike , the Transport Workers ' Federation had been willing enough to agree to a joint board and but for Lord Devonport 's stubborn resistance this might have been achieved . |
| 3 | are careful not to jump to conclusions too quickly |
| 4 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 5 | There are still a few more places available if you are interested please send to the Office as soon as possible . |
| 6 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 7 | ‘ If you are old enough to propose to me , then you are old enough for this . ’ |
| 8 | The odds are favourable enough according to Chelsea 's Mike Hazard , who said of his adversary : ‘ He could cope in Poland , not just because of his ability to close people down and use the ball well , but temperament — you saw that when he scored the goal that won Arsenal the League . ’ |
| 9 | Therefore , since the sellers ' breach had not been serious enough to go to the root of the contract , the buyers were entitled only to damages . |
| 10 | ‘ After all , bottle banks have given glass a good green image and we 're all now used to recycled paper . |
| 11 | It 's pointless attempting to pick out individual songs because they 're all brutally reduced to one-dimensional , rudimentary stompalongs that quickly become brain-numbing and tiresome . |
| 12 | And sometimes when you 've had a late night with the baby and you come in and think , Oh , I 've got to work , and they say if you 're tired just go to sleep on the couch . |
| 13 | They suckle the pigs and otherwise nurture them until they 're mature enough to return to the wild to breed . |
| 14 | True , DF 118 's predilection for improvisation results in one yawn-inducing instrumental howler entitled ‘ Preacher Dub ’ ( foolishly placed at the start of the set ) , and they 're daft enough to return to clichéd ranting on '60 Seconds ’ ; but by the time proceedings close with ‘ Chainsaw ’ , they 're looking like people who could take on more established named and win hands down . |
| 15 | Get rid of weed seedlings before they become young plants , and thin the herb seedlings when they are large enough to handle to about 6 rum ( t/4 in ) spacing , and when they have filled this , to their final spacing . |
| 16 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for a period of more than 14 consecutive days , then your monthly Home Improvement Loan repayments will be made for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 17 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for any period of more than 14 consecutive days , then the cover will pay your monthly loan repayments for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 18 | You are an eighteen year old single girl which most , which most of these days , of these sort of days are these most appeal to ? would yo religions with your partner ? |
| 19 | There are three further points to be made about writing objectives . |
| 20 | Indeed most Buddhists are unhappy even to refer to " God " at all . |
| 21 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 22 | Your clothes are all neatly cut to ribbons : you spin like a maypole . |
| 23 | But it appears to imply that we are all equally disposed to crime all the time ; there are no individual differences in motivation ; variations in individual criminal action are solely accounted for by variations in the constellations of incentives and disincentives that apply in each case . |
| 24 | We ourselves are all fully committed to the idea that the effective communication of information from our resources to each other and to our user community is a fundamental objective directly flowing from the obligations laid on us by statute . |
| 25 | Diseases of the liver and digestive system , motor vehicle accidents , accidents in the home and mental disorders are all commonly related to alcohol , and drinking also impinges powerfully on the work of social services , where child abuse is often related to parental drinking , and on the work of police and probation services . |
| 26 | ‘ We have n't been able yet to speak to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , ’ he observed . |
| 27 | It does need teaching , though we must be careful not to go to the opposite extreme , as many courses do , and patronizingly treat adult learners like new-born babes . |
| 28 | If you think you might be interested please turn to page 5 for the ‘ job descriptions ’ and decide whether you would enjoy either of the jobs . |
| 29 | But she 'd still let herself be fool enough to cling to the wisp of hope there might be someone of position who saw things different . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's up to his doctor to decide if he 'll be fit enough to return to work . |