Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the existing windows were more than large enough to light the second-storey accommodation to building regulations standards , it was decided to shorten these openings . |
| 2 | It should , he reflected , be more than large enough to finish the job . |
| 3 | The 2.5 litre petrol engine fitted to the cheapest version is a mere toy by US standards but more than lusty enough to give the Wrangler real credibility against the Suzuki and Daihatsu offerings which inhabit this sector of the fast expanding 4X4 market . |
| 4 | Before the war it had opened at 6 am and kept open until 6 pm to give the men a further chance of shopping . |
| 5 | Dr Harris left , closing the door softly as if anxious not to wake a sleeping child . |
| 6 | While happy enough to accept the Czechs ' omission of repeats in these earlier works , surely they were unwise to omit that of the exceptionally concise and concentrated exposition of the first movement of the Ghost , Op. 70 No. 1 . |
| 7 | Now , and while anxious not to bore the pants off either of my faithful readers , I feel bound to return to and to expand upon the theme as a result of what I consider to be a truly appalling piece of recent news . |
| 8 | Learn as quick as possible how to drive a car on the road . |
| 9 | Our association of dominant ideology with bureaucracy has tempted us to reserve our notions of way of life for our villagers , thereby reducing bureaucrats and other representatives of the wider world beyond the boundaries of community to automatons , ciphers in depersonalised processes which are unintentionally portrayed as existing merely to threaten the way of life of local communities . |