Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh Richard be careful not to bump into each other |
| 2 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 3 | It is also a real lesson in how to avoid the obvious without being freakish , how to start with the stimulus of a hot vegetable dish , how to vary the eternal purée of potatoes with your meat ( lacking chestnut flour we could try instead a purée of lentils or split peas ) , how to follow it with a fresh , bright , unexpected salad ( that excellent mixture of corn salad and beetroot — how often does one meet with it nowadays ? ) and since by that time most people would have had enough without embarking on cheese , de Pomiane is brave enough to leave it out . |
| 4 | And Freud is careful here to use the word illusion . |
| 5 | Whatever the problem — bereavement , illness , disability , debt , marital problems , loneliness or anything else causing worry and distress — SSAFA is available locally to help . |
| 6 | Marie was ready now to believe that Gazzer could have stolen the keys and wrecked the kiosk . |
| 7 | When Apricot was three weeks away from the examinations which were , in theory , to get herself , Belinda and Brenda out of school , away from home and into a preferable social and intellectual environment-Liese was happy enough to fail hers , and be allowed to stay cosily at home and be married off to someone suitable — there was an unusual uproar in Mafeking Street . |
| 8 | The next day Becky was well enough to go home . |
| 9 | Two years later , however , Gundovald was wealthy enough to bribe the leading citizens of Angoulême . |
| 10 | Perhaps Eleanor was strong enough to force Gina out of his life and house , and help him to a new beginning . |
| 11 | Yet if Miss Hill was unlucky not to get a medal , her disappointment was nothing compared to that felt by the American Lance Larson on a steaming hot night in Rome over 30 years ago . |
| 12 | Tilly Mulliver had been shocked by the revelations , but she was also delighted that Richard was incensed enough to raise his voice in such anger . |
| 13 | ‘ Under their previous director Graham Mather the IEA was anxious not to rock the boat . |
| 14 | Ezekiel was bold enough to long for this too , and God gave him the marvellous vision of the valley of the dry bones ( chapter 37 ) as an assurance that the longed-for day would indeed come . |
| 15 | Brilliant but temporary , and Poshekhonov was lucky not to have been shot with his two principal collaborators . |
| 16 | During the Wars of Independence , which began in 1297 , Rothesay was remote enough to survive largely unscathed . |
| 17 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 18 | The scheme had been widely approved : now as always Edward was careful not to proceed without consent , and had the scheme worked it would have proved highly lucrative . |
| 19 | By the time Tanith was big enough to go into it she was too heavy to carry any great distance . |
| 20 | Linda was intelligent enough to recognise when a question was being dodged . |
| 21 | ‘ Only because of the way you behaved , ’ Molly was angry enough to answer . |
| 22 | For if Mrs Phipps been clever enough to manage her husband 's murder , then she was too bright to make such uninhibited admissions , even to a sympathetic vicar 's wife , other than in the knowledge that she 'd nothing to hide . |
| 23 | England are barmy not to take Gower |
| 24 | While people in Scotland are flattered that in Battersea they think of nothing else but the protection of the people of Scotland from excessive expenditure , I fancy that the people of Scotland are mature enough to elect or to refuse to re-elect Governments who do not conduct taxation affairs in the way in which they wish . |
| 25 | IF THE life stories of Billie Holliday , Loretta Lynn and Pasty Cline were interesting enough to inspire major Hollywood movies , it 's surely only a matter of time before the Dinah Washington biopic arrives . |
| 26 | After the Dubai 1986 Olympics when England were unlucky not to win against a full-strength USSR , it seemed that gold would be there once the Russians had another off day . |
| 27 | The move could force the city of Albuquerque to spend US$250 million cleaning up its water waste so that the Rio Grande is clean enough to drink in religious ceremonies when it reaches Isleta Pueblo , 20 kilometres downstream from the city . |
| 28 | Alan was lucky enough to discover a scorpion in the fruit bowl . |
| 29 | In the early 1970s , industry observers thought that IBM was strong enough to shake off the challenge from Japan . |
| 30 | He knew that he was the shortest in the class by about three inches and that Mr Gillis was considerate enough to bark out the height of each boy after measurement so that everyone in the class knew the awful truth . |