Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If necessary and you 're a skilled enough actor ( and most of us are ) , invent something to clarify : ‘ I 'm not quite sure what item three means — can anybody explain to me please ? ’
2 You 're a good enough driver to have made it look like an accident . ’
3 You can go and get it out , you 're a big enough boy now to fetch it .
4 The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices .
5 Must have been a clever enough chap underneath .
6 Both sides blame one another and the result has been chaotic sales , at a time when the slack market has been a big enough handicap anyway .
7 It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies .
8 Such reactions are a familiar enough story , and the printing trade was by no means the only one where they were found .
9 Drawing with Iran and getting beat by Costa Rica are a great enough indignity , but coping with the knowledge that star players were on the verge of assaulting a policeman with a Hush Puppy is pushing loyalty to the limits .
10 You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side .
11 If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth .
12 More recently Bettelheim has stated that ‘ to be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one 's parenthood , and one 's relation to one 's child ’ ( Bettelheim , 1988 ) .
13 ‘ Unless there is a serious change of attitude , being the capital will not be a strong enough magnet to draw people to London . ’
14 She decided against it in the end , not because she was afraid of any brutish remarks he might — not might , would , she corrected — make when he saw her , but because , from where she viewed it , this was going to be a tough enough weekend without her inviting hassle before it began .
15 It will never be a large enough part of the family budget to create an adequate financial incentive for people to change their ways .
16 However , he also feels that there will be a large enough number of users wanting to migrate towards a mixed vendor environment to ensure the future of APPI .
17 But , obviously , do not wash all the media in one go : stagger the chambers at weekly intervals , so there will always be a large enough population of nitrifying bacteria left .
18 On the one hand variceal haemorrhage may be the final episode in a progressively deteriorating clinical disease state ; alternatively , it may be a single potentially life threatening episode in a patient who can otherise expect several further years of good quality life .
19 Apart from re-arranging the furniture — which can be a bad enough job in itself — visualising an extension or addition to any building can be very difficult .
20 Although he had not a prayer against Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup , Norton 's Coin came to Cheltenham with the reputation of being a useful enough horse despite lowly origins .
21 We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered .
22 The researchers ' long-term aim is to find out what being a good enough parent really means and their conclusions to this million-dollar question will be eagerly awaited .
23 And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen .
24 Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford .
25 I mean she 's a , she 's a nice enough person but she just gets in a strop so easily , you , you know
26 Not a great competition-winning shot but er , at the same time it 's a , it 's a nice enough shot of this particular area .
27 It 's a small enough tape in n it ?
28 Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organizations in the town , and that creates a sort of area of communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's , say , five or six times as big .
29 Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organisations in the town , and that creates a sort of an area of erm communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's say five or six times as big .
30 It 's a reasonable enough slice of hyperactive club-pop , featuring roaring guitars , a tense , busy beat , and Cat 's imprecations to ‘ dance all night long . ’
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