Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simpson had broadcast a similar report nine months earlier , but the FO had dismissed it as media hype and not considered it interesting enough to follow up . |
| 2 | Had not God made them small enough to do the job ? |
| 3 | Perhaps Lucker has not made himself visible enough to justify the cost . |
| 4 | has done its utmost actively to encourage the blossoming of black golfers , although apartheid , as it is known , is an official policy of racial segregation practised in the Republic of South Africa with a view to promoting and maintaining white ascendancy . |
| 5 | He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety . |
| 6 | If the Leader of the House had had the foresight in those early days to see the merit in that legislation , he would not have felt it necessary tonight to move a savage guillotine motion to curtail debate on the measure . |
| 7 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |
| 8 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 9 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 10 | Although Britain has found it difficult historically to slough off its economic past of stop-go , there are considerable signs that it is now prepared to do so . |
| 11 | Most stable-lads would have counted themselves lucky even to get a ride let alone to win a race . |
| 12 | That Merymose had died because he had discovered something important enough to threaten the killer was clear , and Huy knew that his own reluctance to take the policeman into his confidence had been one indirect reason for his death . |