Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandfather had been rich enough to buy the many diamonds it took to make it up . |
| 2 | Just as he had been rich enough to build The Towers … . |
| 3 | She had not been brutal enough to mention the office rumour and Ayling had not expected his words to be interpreted that way . |
| 4 | He had been careful not to push the bulls too hard . |
| 5 | Candidates from Labour 's Left still within the party have been careful not to rock the boat . |
| 6 | Quinn 's brow furrowed ; he had not checked the stones himself — he had not the skill to tell real diamonds from good forgeries — but now prayed no one had been foolish enough to insert a proportion of paste among the gems . |
| 7 | He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters . |
| 8 | Many of us have thought of doing similar studies , but none of us has been brave enough to incur the wrath of the establishment . |
| 9 | Although on the whole wages in the iron industry were good , real earnings would not have been high enough to produce a tangible effect on the structure of taxable wealth . |
| 10 | During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 11 | Very recently David Davis ( 1982 ) has made a scholarly contribution to this field and has been fortunate enough to have the chance to put theory into practice at Birmingham Polytechnic where under the leadership of Brian Watkins a specialist course of considerable merit and vision for P.G.C.E. students has been introduced . |
| 12 | Ruth had been fortunate enough to find a job in Ilkley . |
| 13 | She had even been clever enough to provide an escort for the T'ang . |
| 14 | Someone had been thoughtful enough to provide a felt lining to the bottom of the box so that there would be no noise from the falling coins . |
| 15 | At the time it had been easy enough to make the pledge he had demanded , since she had n't been able to imagine a situation where she would ever want to attack anyone . |
| 16 | You might think that it would have been easy enough to reconstruct the evolutionary pathway , but it was n't . |
| 17 | They have been little fires , really , quickly doused , but they have been visible enough to consume the Interest of us club golfers , ever on the alert to condemn the game 's heroes for walking on feet of clay . |
| 18 | Each territory would have been a complete business organisation in its own area , but because no territory would have been large enough to run a complete main line a great deal more co-operation would have been necessary than existed between the regions , and on a much more formal basis . |
| 19 | Sedimentation must therefore have been fast enough to bury the tree and solidify before the tree had time to rot . |
| 20 | At last it had been cold enough to need a blanket and a quilt , to hold Zosie in his arms without the sweat pouring off them both . |
| 21 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 22 | We have been lucky enough to see the Minister of State ; he has been very kind and we have had really good discussions with him . |
| 23 | And at least we 've been lucky enough to get a bottom bunk . ’ |
| 24 | In this imaginary scenario , I 've been lucky enough to get a mailing list of some of the country 's top plastic surgeons . |
| 25 | We were not terribly surprised when he was informed that he would only receive the basic amount , since he had been lucky enough to get a golden handshake . |
| 26 | The most difficult part of the journey had been the hitch-hike from Udine to Treviso , but at Treviso he had been lucky enough to meet the local head of the Allied Military Government , who occupied another luxurious villa . |
| 27 | Ask any player who has been unfortunate enough to fire a ball into the thick marram grass of a dune on a links and he 'll tell you there is only one way out — pick it up and start again . |
| 28 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 29 | Though small in size and numbers , Border has from time to time been good enough to thump the New Zealand All-Blacks and the British Lions at rugby , and to produce such cricketers as Peter Kirsten , Hylton Ackerman , Ken McEwan and the brothers Greig . |
| 30 | Skelton and Everest Major Wager , who had been unlucky not to reach the jump-off of the Volvo showjumping World Cup round , went flat out to overtake Whitaker on Henderson Grannusch in the Grand Prix . |