Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A favourable monsoon season and a record harvest in 1988-89 of 172,000,000 tonnes of food grain were not enough to prevent the need to continue to import rice and wheat in order to maintain distribution and to provide food for the country 's growing population ; however , the improvement in the agricultural sector did contribute to a major increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , of 9 per cent in real terms in 1988-89 , helped by increases in industrial and manufacturing production . |
| 2 | The sparkle of spray , the glassy mist hanging over the water were pretty enough to taste on the tongue . |
| 3 | As though Bigwig 's angry impatience , Pipkin 's terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with , the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind . |
| 4 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
| 5 | In the result , the proceeds from that sale were not enough to discharge the first mortgage , let alone the subsequent ones . |