Example sentences of "[be] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Should you be pleb enough to require chips with breakfast , remember to ask for fries .
2 There would be time now to see Mr. Fynney , the chief debenture holder on the line , and take his opinion , which I believe has not been given on the position but he , unfortunately , a short time ago lost his brother , and could not attend to business , and there would be time now to obtain the consideration of the promoters of the points above named , before the bill passes the House of Lords .
3 An equivalent medical prognosis would be pessimistic to say the least , and it is time now to explore alternatives which will allow us to approach the 21st Century with confidence instead of indecision and fear .
4 He was hit on the side of the chest in 1748 but did not die until March 1751 , having contracted pleurisy four weeks previously when he was ass enough to inspect landscape gardening at Kew in icy weather .
5 This was guarantee enough to secure loans which left the government in the peacetime year of 1786 paying 55 per cent of its net expenditure in interest on the national debt , compared with a level of 45 per cent before the war .
6 No , to-morrow was time enough to reclaim Barbarossa and see his friends again .
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