Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1856 he needed Britain too much to thwart her desires over the Black Sea Clauses of the Treaty and so he accepted them , hoping that it would still be possible eventually to bring about an entente with Russia . |
| 2 | And fifth , it must be alert enough to judge perfectly the moment for a sudden ‘ recovery ’ and flight to safety . |
| 3 | Political fear of the working class was not acute enough to bring about a widespread demand to conciliate the workers ; rather the 1890s saw attempts to suppress trade unionism through the law courts , lock-outs and the use of ‘ blackleg ’ labour . |
| 4 | ‘ Suck The Knife ’ rides on a mad axe-hero riff brazen enough to bring out the cigarette lighters . |
| 5 | The lunar light gleamed on gold , and his intake of breath was almost loud enough to echo down the alleyway . |
| 6 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 7 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 8 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 9 | Her holy obstinacy , her sulky refusal to bend her stubborn head to emperors , fathers , lovers , or dragons had proved strong enough to conquer even the need to kill . |
| 10 | In the early 1970s , industry observers thought that IBM was strong enough to shake off the challenge from Japan . |
| 11 | Sergei and Anton , from Chernobyl , too shy perhaps to speak even a few words in their own language . |
| 12 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |
| 13 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 14 | She 's sixteen , old enough to take over the housekeeping . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been painting since I was old enough to pick up a brush . |
| 16 | Both were old enough to feel keenly the savage blow , one from which Leonard suffered in particular , albeit outwardly in guarded silence : ‘ The deeper the sorrow , the less tongue it has , ’ said the rabbis . |
| 17 | Brahmadaitya are kind to humans , though should one be foolish enough to chop down the palm tree where this spirit lives , the offender 's neck will be snapped , like a twig . |
| 18 | Sane enough to cover up a murder ! |
| 19 | NOW you can see the fearsome fighters of the WWF in your own home — if you 're brave enough to let in a muscular gang of mighty strong men . |
| 20 | Is there anybody brave enough to take on the post of SAA Executive Secretary ? |
| 21 | Such inconvenience pre-disposes young and old alike to decline both the offer and acceptance of joint occupancy . |
| 22 | It is interesting too to consider how the nature and incidence of figural designs relate to these possible sequences of development . |
| 23 | The Ministry is due shortly to take over the countryside premium scheme . |
| 24 | This , implicitly at least , demands the use of major computer systems , otherwise it would not be possible easily to carry out the necessary regular checks as to whether the various procedures have been undertaken within the prescribed time period . |
| 25 | However , it is generally easy enough to sort out the ones that do and the ones that aim to provide police-based fantasy . |
| 26 | It is easy enough to brush aside the Pribram incident . |
| 27 | It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) . |
| 28 | One can only guess how these drugs were originally recognized , though it is easy enough to imagine how the fermented juice of squashed grapes began to be enjoyed . |
| 29 | It was easy enough to climb down the covers on to the floor . |
| 30 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |