Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the drowsy state there is very little coming in and yet the cortex is still relatively alert and demanding something to work on , although not alert enough to provide an effective inhibition of nonsense being offered by the senses . |
| 2 | Either way their lives are outstanding enough to capture the popular imagination ; they are remembered and they become part of the town 's history . |
| 3 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 4 | Similarly , the range is not broad enough to produce a median ratio . |
| 5 | The range of academic perspectives covered is broad enough to satisfy the literary specialist 's desire that literature should relate to the world , yet the comparatively rigorous analytical approach to literary studies is very appealing to those who , like myself , have interests which are primarily linguistic and communicative rather than literary . |
| 6 | We have limited the field to stored-program computers , and we further limit the field to general-purpose computers ; that is , to computers with an instruction set rich enough to perform a wide variety of tasks . |
| 7 | Many are rich enough to support a distinctive cryoconite flora of algae and cyanobacteria , which survive winters encapsulated in the ice ( Wharton et al . |
| 8 | Grandfather had been rich enough to buy the many diamonds it took to make it up . |
| 9 | The largest of them , Greenpeace , has , in the space of two decades , enlisted 3.5 million members worldwide and become rich enough to maintain a small fleet of boats and a research station in Antarctica . |
| 10 | The First Aid bloke coming to his rescue almost did the same , but was intact enough to lead the dazed lad down the players ' tunnel . |
| 11 | On occasion we were able to produce small fragments of intact retina that were suitable for microspectrophotometry and yet were extensive enough to answer the present question . |
| 12 | JIM KERR 's heartbeat is loud enough to wake a whole sleeping city . |
| 13 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 14 | It was also recommended that the Committee should seek to make some of its existing activities profitable enough to employ a social development director from its own resources . |
| 15 | The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowder tied to the man 's neck . |
| 16 | Theoretical considerations indicated that if the electric field applied to the surface could be made strong enough to confine the mobile electrons to a very thin layer near the semiconductor 's surface , with thickness comparable to the wavelength associated with the electrons there , then the electrons ' motion perpendicular to the surface would be ‘ quantised ’ . |
| 17 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 18 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 19 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 20 | The mind of a young child is not yet strong enough to hold the two conflicting emotions . |
| 21 | The question we are entitled to ask is : are new values strong enough to hold the old institutions together ? |
| 22 | However the displayed images suggested another effect , which was quite strong enough to explain the experimental results . |
| 23 | Indeed , the blaze did little to counteract the wintry draughts blowing into the room through the unshuttered windows , some strong enough to stir the heavy tapestries covering the stone walls . |
| 24 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 25 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 26 | If the output effect is still strong enough to outweigh the latter effect , then w/r falls , and in the final equilibrium , is still higher . |
| 27 | Is the government 's tax base strong enough to support a planned expansion of services ? |
| 28 | If all the children are to be involved , is the production strong enough to support a large cast in worthwhile roles ? |
| 29 | Strong enough to whip a 1 50-kilogramme seal out of the water with one paw , able to swim many kilometres in freezing seas and quite capable of climbing up almost vertical ice-faces , they represent one of nature 's supreme examples of adaptation to an inhospitable environment . |
| 30 | And who would be strong enough to overcome a young man as well as a , presumably , fairly robust young damsel ? ’ |