Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were few children lucky enough to visit the cinema mid-week , as he so often did , and that made Frankie feel particularly privileged . |
| 2 | Gambon , 51 , is one of the few actors big enough to play the mountainous Maxwell . |
| 3 | The legal problems are similar to those in the cases of mistake and deception : are all threats serious enough to justify regarding the crime as a rape , or should some threats be accommodated within a lesser offence ? |
| 4 | If our Sun were a member of such a cluster the sky would be ablaze every night , with many stars brilliant enough to cast strong shadows . |
| 5 | Does he recall that he replied that he did not consider those circumstances grim enough to undertake an economic initiative for Paisley ? |
| 6 | But now a test for the drug is years away , and for those athletes desperate enough to win , only their own sense of honour would stop them using it . |
| 7 | Clara had had the sense not to try to ask her mother about a possible purchase , as she could only too clearly imagine the responses to which such a request would expose her , and the abuse which would be cast upon those girls fortunate enough to have a use for party dresses . |
| 8 | So Lady , we 've never found any gentlemen old enough to play old William because he was in his seventies at this time , we never found an old gentleman play William , Robert Hardy 's not quite old enough . |
| 9 | It was built to last , and the vaulted classrooms now serve as tearooms for any tourists intrepid enough to reach them . |
| 10 | To any outsiders curious enough to look — and there were n't many — the Liverpool-centred party-cum-discussion group Big Flame seemed identical to any other of the tiny Trotskyite grouplets . |
| 11 | ‘ There are n't any stones large enough to spell out a message with . |