Example sentences of "be a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If necessary and you 're a skilled enough actor ( and most of us are ) , invent something to clarify : ‘ I 'm not quite sure what item three means — can anybody explain to me please ? ’ |
| 2 | You 're a good enough driver to have made it look like an accident . ’ |
| 3 | You can go and get it out , you 're a big enough boy now to fetch it . |
| 4 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 5 | Must have been a clever enough chap underneath . |
| 6 | Both sides blame one another and the result has been chaotic sales , at a time when the slack market has been a big enough handicap anyway . |
| 7 | It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies . |
| 8 | Such reactions are a familiar enough story , and the printing trade was by no means the only one where they were found . |
| 9 | Drawing with Iran and getting beat by Costa Rica are a great enough indignity , but coping with the knowledge that star players were on the verge of assaulting a policeman with a Hush Puppy is pushing loyalty to the limits . |
| 10 | You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side . |
| 11 | He must have been an eligible enough bachelor : the son of a fairly prosperous artisan family , trained as a craftsman , and quite a handsome chap into the bargain . |
| 12 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 13 | More recently Bettelheim has stated that ‘ to be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one 's parenthood , and one 's relation to one 's child ’ ( Bettelheim , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Unless there is a serious change of attitude , being the capital will not be a strong enough magnet to draw people to London . ’ |
| 15 | She decided against it in the end , not because she was afraid of any brutish remarks he might — not might , would , she corrected — make when he saw her , but because , from where she viewed it , this was going to be a tough enough weekend without her inviting hassle before it began . |
| 16 | It will never be a large enough part of the family budget to create an adequate financial incentive for people to change their ways . |
| 17 | However , he also feels that there will be a large enough number of users wanting to migrate towards a mixed vendor environment to ensure the future of APPI . |
| 18 | But , obviously , do not wash all the media in one go : stagger the chambers at weekly intervals , so there will always be a large enough population of nitrifying bacteria left . |
| 19 | On the one hand variceal haemorrhage may be the final episode in a progressively deteriorating clinical disease state ; alternatively , it may be a single potentially life threatening episode in a patient who can otherise expect several further years of good quality life . |
| 20 | Apart from re-arranging the furniture — which can be a bad enough job in itself — visualising an extension or addition to any building can be very difficult . |
| 21 | Although he had not a prayer against Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup , Norton 's Coin came to Cheltenham with the reputation of being a useful enough horse despite lowly origins . |
| 22 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 23 | The researchers ' long-term aim is to find out what being a good enough parent really means and their conclusions to this million-dollar question will be eagerly awaited . |
| 24 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 25 | Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford . |
| 26 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 27 | I mean she 's a , she 's a nice enough person but she just gets in a strop so easily , you , you know |
| 28 | Not a great competition-winning shot but er , at the same time it 's a , it 's a nice enough shot of this particular area . |
| 29 | It 's a small enough tape in n it ? |
| 30 | Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organizations in the town , and that creates a sort of area of communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's , say , five or six times as big . |