Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 2 | Nigger pulled out a wad of notes large enough to choke a horse , gave Knocker a pound note , and told him to keep the change . |
| 3 | Both Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitism had declined in the past decade , in part reflecting the deaths of Germans old enough to remember Nazi Germany before the war . |
| 4 | The provision of homes small enough to provide a reasonable place of residence was , and still is , insufficient for all mentally handicapped people in mental handicap hospitals to leave them . |
| 5 | She could n't think of words bad enough to describe them . |
| 6 | The only isotope of radon abundant enough to cause a health problem is & sup222 ; Rn . |
| 7 | Take a new but washed tea towel or piece of muslin large enough to hold the cake and moisten with half of the remaining bourbon . |
| 8 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 9 | The slim angular shape was definitely well suited to a graphic style , but was the lay down of pigment soft enough to blend out in a more painterly manner ? |
| 10 | The group argues that the area is the only remaining block of forest large enough to support the country 's full range of animal and plant life in its natural habitat . |
| 11 | First , vaccinia itself is not without its dangers : vaccination against smallpox carries a risk of encephalitis serious enough to have prohibited its use in countries where smallpox was not endemic well before the success of the eradication campaign . |
| 12 | The DPP failed to gain the number of seats necessary seriously to oppose President Lee 's constitutional reform programme in 1992-93 . |
| 13 | To take an example , within this scheme it might be said that computing facilities must be subject to constant returns to scale because a consortium of firms large enough to take advantage of the optimally sized computer could buy one and then time-share its facilities . |
| 14 | By April 1988 , on the second anniversary of the Chernobyl eruption , fear had made the previously obedient people of Kiev brave enough to hold their first post-glasnost street demonstration . |
| 15 | It may therefore be that while a perfectly competitive market composed of producers big enough to benefit fully from economies of scale would be the ideal , something like the existing state of affairs , particularly against a background of merger control and regulation of anti-competitive practices , is the best realisable outcome . |
| 16 | Nor were the levels of resources available enough to pay for the increased skills needed for the more complex requirements of local administration . |
| 17 | There were larger numbers of Whig and Tories who found the pull of Court strong enough to override party loyalty . |
| 18 | In a pool of 30 WFS countries ( see Table 10 ) , the mortality of infants born less than 24 months after the preceding birth was found to be 80 per cent higher than that of infants fortunate enough to have been born after an interval of 24 to 47 months . |
| 19 | The change will allow the warehousing of goods liable solely to import VAT in order to suspend payment of that VAT . |
| 20 | In the past , anything neatly encapsulated was said to be ‘ like The Iliad in a nutshell ’ — a reference to the ancient Greek epic which Roman historian Pliny maintained could be written on a piece of paper small enough to fit in a walnut . |
| 21 | She had heard of storms great enough to flood some of the booths near to the shore , but never one that had thrown more than spray on the walls of the longhouses . |
| 22 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 23 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 24 | First there is tonight 's second round tie against struggling Third Division Bury to negotiate — a nerve-shredding 90 minutes with the thought of pitting wits against the stars of Manchester United enough to inspire both sides . |
| 25 | Britain 's civil nuclear power programme is said to have produced a stockpile of plutonium big enough to make 14 000 nuclear warheads . |
| 26 | The latter move came in the wake of parliament 's decision of Dec. 11 temporarily to suspend the privatization process . |
| 27 | Are the indicators of success precise enough to enable the achievement to be assessed with considerable certainty ? |
| 28 | However , we did find a strong influence on the occurrence of episodes severe enough to lead the mother to take the child to a clinic , and those that subsequently resulted in the child being admitted to hospital , as well as an effect on mortality . |
| 29 | The national park proposed for the Cairngorms , for example , covers an area of land big enough to include not only the skiing at Cairngorm , but also that at the Lecht and Glenshee as well . |
| 30 | Of oceans fresh enough to drink , too shallow to drown in , and narrow enough for children to wade across , shrimping net in hand , from Southampton to New York . |