Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that you 're rich enough to live in Surrey , and some people ca n't even afford a roof over their head do n't you think you have a moral obligation towards these people ? |
| 2 | The family became rich enough to send VS Naipaul to university in England . |
| 3 | oh right , what saying ? , you 're not brainy enough to go to college |
| 4 | The novel argues in cold , unremitting fidelity to its own thesis that in life the evil may in the end go unpunished and live happily ever after ; that the truly self-sufficient being , if he anywhere existed , would be ultimately inviolable , fearing neither reproach nor self-reproach ; and that those who are strong enough to live without sympathy are forever beyond the reach of compassion or revenge . |
| 5 | Strong enough to deal with options ? |
| 6 | Though everyone seemed to despise Nigel , Charles had n't met anyone whose feeling seemed strong enough to amount to hatred . |
| 7 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 8 | He had been farsighted enough to recant before Akhenaten 's death , making a discreet escape from the City of the Horizon by barge at night with his family . |
| 9 | There was still less appreciation of the problems encountered by youngsters old enough to go into lodgings . |
| 10 | We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school . |
| 11 | When his own son was old enough to go to school , Alexia took up painting , working her way away from representational landscapes into suggestive abstracts based on the British countryside . |
| 12 | By the time you were four and old enough to go to school you were practised at enticing the dogs in to be fed , undetected . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At six I was old enough to go on errands , at seven to go further to pay the rent and rates , make the long , dreary trip to the Cap for the divi . |
| 15 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 16 | The rate has been raised quite high enough to deal with overheating in the domestic economy . |
| 17 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 18 | The scheme had been widely approved : now as always Edward was careful not to proceed without consent , and had the scheme worked it would have proved highly lucrative . |
| 19 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 20 | We raffled a car at Christmas in the John Radcliffe and collected everybody 's money , and we did n't have too many qualms of conscience about that , but one 's got to be very careful not to beg from patients , but I think er fun for all , a lottery is fun and we feel perfectly er acceptable towards this very worthwhile project when we 're given the cheque on Monday . |
| 21 | However , the party was very careful not to support in principle ministerial contact with the PLO , a stance which clearly angered Weizmann . |
| 22 | Lastly , he and Massingham passed through the open door to the right of the fireplace , careful not to brush against Harry 's body , and explored the kitchen . |
| 23 | are careful not to jump to conclusions too quickly |
| 24 | We must be careful not to speak of oil and cereal needs which may be very different from consumption . |
| 25 | Over the next couple of days she discovered that she had to be careful not to think about Luke Scott . |
| 26 | Rabbits would dash out of their losing darkness , and the village boys would chase them with sticks and yells , careful not to get in front of the two who had the guns . |
| 27 | Davidson ( 1975 ) would even maintain that this requires that they have mastery of a language ; that it is wrong even to think in terms of quasi-beliefs or proto-beliefs when trying to explain even quite complex behaviour of languageless creatures . |
| 28 | Answering this question requires a fuller investigation of the availability and remuneration of work for women and children in both the agrarian and manufacturing sectors of the eighteenth century , but there are no series comprehensive enough to talk of trends and movements in women 's wages . |
| 29 | This is easy enough to use in theory and works effectively . |
| 30 | They form a rough diamond shape , and are in the same × 12 field , so that they are easy enough to recognize in spite of their dimness . |