Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 But am I strong enough to watch him trying to fly over things and skim around things and fritter energy and search ?
2 Is it sometimes better to avoid the word ‘ deaf ’ ?
3 After a brief apology she said : ‘ Is it all right to allow credit for this , Miss Carne ? ’
4 ‘ Tell me , Uncle , is it all right to carry on thinking about ordinary gravity force instead of wonky space — if you want to ? ’
5 Is it all right to eat or drink before a session ?
6 ‘ But is it all right to eat Grandson Richard 's sandwich ? ’
7 Is it all right to walk on a Sunday , Uncle Rory ? ’
8 While attentive to the spirit of his reproach , it is not enough to retreat into the security of a duality — even a dialectic duality — in which difference is always already valorized against the corrosiveness of repetition ; but nor is it enough simply to reverse the poles and allow the current to run the other way .
9 The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ?
10 Is he good enough to play for us ?
11 And is hers strong enough to marry a man who regards unpunctuality almost as a mortal sin ?
12 Was it deep enough to sweep the vehicle over the edge ?
13 Was it too soon to wear Faith 's amethyst brooch ?
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