Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His obituary , written by Allan Hayhurst for The British Deaf News of March 1955 , says of him : In Ernest Ayliffe the Deaf instinctively recognised a champion . |
| 2 | Quite the reverse , it is possible expressly to link the concept of " relational properties " with a ( suitably modified ) pluralist thesis by arguing , for example , that the possession of a relational property of a certain kind necessarily entails the existence of more than one thing in the world . |
| 3 | The clear aim of the vendor is to disclose as much as possible thereby reducing the potential for claims under the warranties . |
| 4 | This definition is clarified when Sadat turns off the road through an entrance discreet enough to admit the car with only a centimetre on either side . |
| 5 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a waste of money , ’ said Harriet , looking out of the window at the parkland , which seemed lush enough to feed the whole of the East End of London until the next war . |
| 7 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 8 | In a free enterprise economy it would be profitable only to supply a fraction of the amount to which the government is currently committed . |
| 9 | Fortunately , they were professional enough to do the gig , but it served no useful purpose . |
| 10 | Two movements this time : the first a clever little fantasy on Papageno 's bird-call figure — easy to follow , but just pungent enough to raise the music out of background blandness ; the second knottier , more amorphous and , for me , much less rewarding . |
| 11 | Mm do n't think it 's dry enough to cut the grass is it ? |
| 12 | WELL , we 're back to the time of year when , hopefully , it will be warm and dry enough to get a barbecue organised . |
| 13 | These results suggested that open complexes formed at the φ29 P A2b and P A3 promoters are unstable , and that initiated complexes are stable enough to resist the heparin challenge and give rise to elongation complexes . |
| 14 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 15 | High Ashdonian merely extends the principle : here , the way to form any sentence is to repeat terms such as ‘ proportional representation ’ , ‘ partnership ’ , ‘ yes , my friend ’ , and ‘ I tell you this ’ as often as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd think someone rich enough to own a rig like this could afford a pair of fenders . ’ |
| 17 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 18 | Since the aim of the research was to illuminate the industrial relations of state enterprises by examining two corporations in considerable detail , there was a need to collect material rich enough to illustrate the nature of the processes at work . |
| 19 | If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights . |
| 20 | If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights . |
| 21 | If you do n't feel bold or rich enough to take a gamble on sovereigns , for only £7.25 , you can buy a presentation folder containing one each of the £2 coins issued to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Rights . |
| 22 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 23 | It dates back to 1795 and was issued by the King 's Theatre in London 's Haymarket , and was designed as a throw-away item for theatre-goers rich enough to book a box for the season at the kingly sum of 2,500 guineas . |
| 24 | Of course , this is common to many criminals who define the victim of their criminality as being rich enough to withstand the loss . |
| 25 | It is possible so to violate the state of marriage , specifically by adultery , that in those circumstances divorce is conceivable and permissible . |
| 26 | The only contribution to the present is the fact that it is possible only to reach the railway using modern transport in the form of a motor car or bus . |
| 27 | It 's important to choose a variety that will grow tall enough to reach the surface as you can not raise such plants on bricks . |
| 28 | Once a child could walk and had , through dire necessity , learned how to shed a wet pair of training pants and put on his snow suit , he would vanish into the street , not to be seen again until lunch time ; once he was tall enough to reach the refrigerator door handle , the problem of lunch was also solved — he could get it himself . |
| 29 | ‘ But I 've paid for you ! ’ he said , and this time it was loud enough to stop every conversation within a radius of twenty-five yards . |
| 30 | Although the chosen noise should initially be loud enough to gain the baby 's attention , it should be turned down to background level after 30 seconds . |