Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 2 | The stars were clouded over , the gas lights were dim then grew a bit brighter , and I could hear a tinkly organ out of tune , the sound came from the direction of the Iron Pier . |
| 3 | Needless to say a great deal of cheating occurred — the biggest boy 's interpretation of the rules having to be accepted unless you were brave enough to risk a good hiding . |
| 4 | If Adam had not issued from his hiding-place early in May they would not have been discovered ; but the messages which had come from Llewelyn were grave enough to warrant a risk which by then appeared so slight . |
| 5 | They were fortunate enough to secure a seat actually in the window alcove , which , although the shop was crowded , gave an illusion of privacy to their conversation . |
| 6 | POLICE were early today investigating an explosion at an oil terminal at North Shields , Tyne and Wear . |
| 7 | However , for the last three seasons they 've been disappointed — unless like me , they were lucky enough to chance a late holiday and hit the best powder of the season . |
| 8 | If they were lucky enough to find a skylark 's nest they might not want to spoil the countryside for all of us . |
| 9 | In spite of what Professor Woodburn had said , it was a little cooler in Washington Square , especially as they were lucky enough to find a vacant seat under a tree . |
| 10 | An early aircraft it was returned to Boeing at Everett for structural testing to destruction on April 5 , 1988 and the Science Museum were lucky enough to secure a cross section , including the upper deck . |
| 11 | Sothebys were unfortunate enough to misattribute a French eighteenth-century picture , which was in fact by Fragonard . |
| 12 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 13 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 14 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |
| 15 | Thus , Lincoln during the Civil War , Wilson during World War I and Franklin Roosevelt in an era of domestic and international crisis were all temporarily accorded a leeway that non-crisis presidents have not enjoyed . |
| 16 | He also said that teams such as leeds , arse-nil , norwich , newcastle and blackburn had each put up a brief fight but none were good enough to sustain a serious challenge . |
| 17 | Indeed they were good enough to assign a USAF Public Relations Officer , the very friendly Major Hal Brubaker , as my guide and mentor . |
| 18 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 19 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 20 | This separation between decision-making and actual implementation might appear rigid , but in fact de Gaulle was flexible enough to recognize that conditions could change between the moment of decision and the moment of implementation and that sometimes these changes were fundamental enough to require a modification of the original decision . |
| 21 | Because of their size they were unable fully to support a family and so there was need for off-farm employment . |
| 22 | The Branches have to depend upon the voluntary support of the membership to fulfil what many see as their prime role , and where once the polytechnics were able heavily to subsidise a service of CPD seminars or even help run an ‘ in-house ’ programme , they can no longer operate in this way and have to charge for the events on a full cost basis . |
| 23 | Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size . |
| 24 | They were hard-pressed even to get a hotel room . |
| 25 | In other words , if any of you were wealthy enough to employ a lady or a gentleman t do the cleaning . |
| 26 | Last year you were kind enough to allow a skip to be placed in the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish . |
| 27 | They were anxious also to find a mooring place for their four-oared ceremonial barge , with a cabin in the stern . |
| 28 | Internal interpretation was orthodox ; but the first principles were radical enough to assure a development beyond the conventions of civil law . |
| 29 | As he walked through the centre of the town he saw a large group of navvies sauntering across the wide market square , whistling at the women and calling out to any particularly young or good-looking girls — or those of any age who were careless enough to throw a smile in their direction . |
| 30 | It was useless to tell him that you were grown-up enough to have a mind of your own now . |