Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No state is strong enough to play this role solo . |
| 2 | Stannard 's books have a teaching element , but the story telling is strong enough to make this quite palatable . |
| 3 | Is that either side each time or is that up until Christmas ? |
| 4 | Now that certainly should cater for all his requirements , the only problem that Alec will have to go through now , is that actually get all this information |
| 5 | The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care . |
| 6 | It is possible nevertheless to draw several conclusions about the general range of structures and their relative importance in the small towns . |
| 7 | I 'm positively not the person to advise anyone on cut-price marine systems or to encourage the idea that it is possible not to compromise such principles by going down market . |
| 8 | Well , because the internal speakers already run at 4 ohms , any additional speakers would create the wrong impedance and , besides , the S80 is loud enough to handle most situations without extra cabs . |
| 9 | but I do n't know what this cos squared X is all about what 's that how does that tie up with cos X ? |
| 10 | it 's forty then going that way , but when you think of the taxi , gee |
| 11 | It is popular nowadays to say that morphogenesis ( that is , the development of form is programmed by the genes . |
| 12 | Romeo and Juliet has slightly less good sound , but it is adequate enough to convey another highly dramatic , very expressive performance . |
| 13 | Once you have conditioned barbel to feed ravenously they are ridiculously easy to catch , assuming of course that you are using tackle which is adequate enough to handle these tremendously hard-fighting fish . |
| 14 | As a result the viewing audience may feel alienated and become bored or hostile unless the original lecture is interesting enough to overcome this reaction . |
| 15 | The Minister is fortunate indeed to have such high-quality civil servants at the Scottish Office . |
| 16 | Toshiba has solved this problem by introducing a mouse and software that 's clever enough to handle this and other demands as well . |
| 17 | Anyway he 's clever enough to hoodwink those two charming young ladies he has with him . |
| 18 | It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice ! |
| 19 | The outback is vast enough to contain several landscape types : stony desert , the Crocodile Dundee wetlands of the Top End , forest , high prairie , and hot red centre . |
| 20 | Then she could n't help but add , ‘ It 's amazing how educated some of the ignorant people are . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly that is a great defect : it is impossible not to wish that , musically speaking , the piece could be played an octave higher . |
| 22 | It is impossible not to connect this finding both with the introduction of machines and with the increasing alarm among the men . |
| 23 | The statement by Adam Smith that businessmen 's meetings , even for ‘ merriment and diversion ’ , usually end up in connivance to restrict competition , is often quoted , but the sentence which follows it is equally perceptive : ‘ It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings , by any law which either could be executed , or would be consistent with liberty and justice . ’ |
| 24 | It is pointless just taking more money from motorists if they are not also given real incentives to reduce their use of cars . |
| 25 | It is easy enough to say all this . |
| 26 | It is easy enough to put another interpretation on the behaviour of the Robinses , to argue that they were doing their best in trying circumstances ( to forbid German was not a bad way of teaching English ) , and that they had their work cut out dealing with precocious children . |
| 27 | It is easy enough to calculate this as a percentage of sales and to show that costs have gone up not only absolutely but relatively . |
| 28 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 29 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 30 | The Adour , which is much the wider , is also the clearer , approximately water-coloured , you could say ; the Nive is the rich colour nearly of chocolate , which is appropriate enough given that Bayonne was long famous for the chocolate that it made and in which it traded . |