Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a test much be wide enough to safeguard public morality , yet narrow enough not to encroach on private taste or conscience . |
| 2 | She did n't look old enough not to know of the riggers . |
| 3 | By the mid 1960s , only four per cent were reporting that they might be willing once again to vote for someone like Hitler . |
| 4 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 5 | In the time that followed , Auntie was very careful indeed not to talk about her sight , long sight , or foresight . |
| 6 | Round-eyed , the knitter said , " It turns you cold all over to think of it . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd never keep Jupe awake long enough to listen to the arguments . |
| 8 | PC Hall , a 38-year-old father of two , was well enough yesterday to complain about hospital food which he refused to eat . |
| 9 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 10 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 11 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 12 | It is not uncommon even now to read in popular science that this notion has firm scientific support . |
| 13 | Nor is it surprising that it was one of the two arts areas in the curriculum pantheon at the time , art , with its claim to encourage pupil 's imaginative abilities , which was able most readily to respond to the changed educational climate . |
| 14 | Yet he was unable to help her , unable even properly to converse with her . |
| 15 | This interpretation was kind to Edward , because it was more normal even then to demand of a king that he produce an heir , and Edward 's childlessness unloosed on his luckless kingdom the horrors of 1066 . |
| 16 | By choosing varieties which are grafted on dwarfing rootstocks where these are available ( cherries , apricots , plums , peaches , pears , apples ) , together with less vigorous varieties of others , trees can be kept to a more manageable size , some small enough even to grow in large pots or in a greenhouse . |
| 17 | Fair enough not to decide on the phone on the basis of my say-so , but — ’ He did n't finish . |
| 18 | ‘ However , there is no mortuary big enough here to cope with the number of the dead . |
| 19 | But then we were big enough now to look after the kids for her while she went . |
| 20 | Viewed from the rear , hindlegs are straight , strong and wide enough apart to fit with a properly built body . |