Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared that one of Edna 's married daughters had split up from her husband and needed somewhere to go with her small children . |
| 2 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 3 | Because you 're — mature enough to cope with my get-up-and-go , self-interested philosophy ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 5 | Chewing on a lump of gristle in an effort to render it small enough to pass through her swollen throat , Evelyn thought back over her first meeting with Biff Thacker . |
| 6 | Had she gold , poor woman , so to entrap for herself that monstrous lump of selfishness ? |
| 7 | In my view , an unsharp image in colour however beautiful will rarely be strong enough to stand on its own , whereas the same image in black & white can through the nature of the medium , become a tantalising and thought provoking subject . |
| 8 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 9 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
| 10 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 11 | He paused only to smooth down his unruly black hair and tuck his vest into his pants before groping his way down the long dark corridor to the kitchen door . |
| 12 | The danger facing American troops , military analysts say , is that the new civilian government headed by President Guillermo Endara may not be strong enough to rule on its own . |
| 13 | After all , he 's old enough to answer for his own actions . |
| 14 | You have only to look at your own publication of June 1991 to find racist comments related to the attractiveness of watersports to black people from the Chairman of the Transvaal Canoe Union . |
| 15 | If , at times in an ordinary reproductive life , I am moved not only to look after my own progeny but those of my sister as well , then I clearly increase my fitness above that due solely to selfish interests . |
| 16 | If it is not strong enough to grow on its own , let it die as soon as possible . ’ |
| 17 | Conversely , do they trust you sufficiently to discuss with you those delicate and sensitive issues which need confidential handling ? |
| 18 | Carol had quite enough to do with her own job and all her own shopping without preparing meals as well and she hoped she would have a little rest after Christmas , now that people took time off in lots of offices until after the New Year . |
| 19 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 20 | Europe is now rich enough to deal with its tribal , idiotic hatreds and appallingly violent racism on its own . |
| 21 | It 's all to do with their continued wilful rejection of Captain Bob 's morale-boosting pay and conditions package which , for some reason , they deplore . |
| 22 | As swiftly as she could she dropped the dress over her head and wriggled into it — only to emerge from its temporary darkness to see Luke Hunter 's eyes upon her , and a look of mocking appreciation on his face . |
| 23 | Report to me when you consider she is proficient enough to manage on her own , ’ Kerly said . |
| 24 | ‘ We all thought I was old enough to manage on my own , ’ he said laconically . |
| 25 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 26 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 27 | First , a star with a mass of roughly will end its cycle of thermonuclear burning with an iron core which is massive enough to collapse under its own gravitational self-attraction . |
| 28 | Some people leave it very late to discover that they may not be aggressive/intellectual/pragmatic enough to succeed in their particular company . |
| 29 | Yeah , I mean I do n't know how powerful they were that , I mean he were n't , he were n't belting on those but there was , he was playing loud enough to appreciate with its own you know |
| 30 | Hardly compact enough to squeeze into your average Tokyo matchbox flat but all the rage nevertheless , this surreal Daliesque chair was designed by Japanese ‘ furniture tailor ’ Yoichi Nakamura . |