Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perpetual spinach and carrots will tolerate growing close together , but any flowering plant wants elbow room if it is to develop a stem strong enough to support the branches that will spring from it . |
| 2 | Is the government 's tax base strong enough to support a planned expansion of services ? |
| 3 | The solution was a watch with a magnetic field strong enough to undo a zip . |
| 4 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 5 | One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead . |
| 6 | This definition is clarified when Sadat turns off the road through an entrance discreet enough to admit the car with only a centimetre on either side . |
| 7 | Mix the wine , sugar , and spices in a saucepan large enough to hold the pears upright . |
| 8 | .. our task in this parliament is to create the force powerful enough to remove the Tories ; to assemble the policies capable of sustaining a different government ; and to draw together the forces in Britain which will bring change and reform . ’ |
| 9 | The only isotope of radon abundant enough to cause a health problem is & sup222 ; Rn . |
| 10 | He continued to speculate on the subject , and wrote letters to various journals , but seems to have done little further practical work until 1849 , when a glider large enough to carry a small boy was launched in free flight at Brompton . |
| 11 | Take a new but washed tea towel or piece of muslin large enough to hold the cake and moisten with half of the remaining bourbon . |
| 12 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 13 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 14 | I always held that view and did all I could to press for an election before Christmas in order that we might get a majority large enough to stand the racket . " |
| 15 | Roman had clearly primed his housekeeper well in advance , Caroline reflected , finding herself whisked off through grandiose high-ceilinged passageways , up a curving staircase wide enough to accommodate a coach and four , and into a room large enough to hold a full-scale ball . |
| 16 | Just drill a hole in the middle of the lid large enough to take a 15mm 90 degree plastic elbow , to which the pipe is then fitted with another elbow at the top . |
| 17 | The group argues that the area is the only remaining block of forest large enough to support the country 's full range of animal and plant life in its natural habitat . |
| 18 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 19 | For more definition in certain areas I allowed the cutter to stay in one place long enough to burn the surface of the timber . |
| 20 | If the pot-au-feu is for a special occasion you include as well a boiling chicken , but since so many kitchens are n't equipped with a soup pot large enough to hold a chicken at the same time as all the meat , this may have to be cooked separately . |
| 21 | All banks need to maintain a cash ratio large enough to meet the cash requirements of their depositors . |
| 22 | However , he did consider this event important enough to send a report to an Australian station on Lord Howe Island . |
| 23 | There is little evidence available either to assess the magnitude of any labour market disincentives created by existing disability benefits or to predict the impact of the proposed reforms on the employment and incomes of people with disabilities . |
| 24 | " International bird conservation has until now been rather disjointed with no single organisation big enough to tackle the problem alone . |
| 25 | AN earthquake big enough to destroy a city rocked northern Australia last night . |
| 26 | As Esterly puts it , ‘ I 'm the only person crazy enough to make a living out of original limewood foliage work . |
| 27 | Was the movement strong enough to make the boat pull the iron stanchions free of the bank ? |
| 28 | Has n't he got enough to worry about without being clobbered over the head by the injured pride of a woman fortunate enough to have the time and the brain to worry about the title on her season ticket ? |
| 29 | IR leaflet 112 How to Claim a Repayment of Income Tax , obtainable from any tax office . |
| 30 | For further information , obtain IR leaflet 112 How to Claim a Repayment of Income Tax . |