Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most spiders have eight eyes , although only two of them are sophisticated enough to create a picture of the scene . |
| 2 | Teachers will understand and support the way in which management decisions are made if they are fortunate enough to receive any management training and any assistance in their professional development , especially if it is linked with their working experience ( DES 1990a:9 ) : Training opportunities increase in value to the degree that they are planned to integrate with and enhance the experience of management in school . |
| 3 | If they are fortunate enough to become involved in an initiative which supports their progress into employment , this can lead them into another level of experience . |
| 4 | When this happens , sometimes it is because they are fortunate enough to have similar interests and standards of behaviour , plus warm , easy-going personalities , with a good tolerance of other people 's ways and opinions . |
| 5 | Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways . |
| 6 | it 's up to him whether it 's , whether they say it 's right or wrong I think , I think what the council said is if they , if they want it , the thing shifting , they are strong enough to get it shifted if they , if they , if they really feel that the things rot , you see up in the Dales they , one chap built a house and er , and they said they had to pull it down because it would n't fit in with , of |
| 7 | In order to give maximum protection , the siting of smoke detectors must be such that they are close enough to risk areas where fires are most likely to occur ( kitchens or living rooms ) , and yet be near to bedrooms and other sleeping areas . |
| 8 | However , an extra allowance must be made for any head wind , and in poor visibility inexperienced pilots should make sure that they are close enough to keep the field in sight all the time . |
| 9 | They are powerful enough to burn for 2 hours and can be seen for 20 miles . |
| 10 | Self-sowing is likely ; seeds should be collected on their stems just before they are ripe enough to drop , and placed in paper bags hung in a warm dry airy place . |
| 11 | They are unlucky enough to live in London 's Tower Hamlets — one of the most deprived inner-city boroughs in the country — Somerset , Lincolnshire , Dorset , Hillingdon and Sutton . |
| 12 | There are many moto-cross clubs in this country and they are easy enough to join . |
| 13 | They form a rough diamond shape , and are in the same × 12 field , so that they are easy enough to recognize in spite of their dimness . |
| 14 | Spelling rules are of little help , because if they are thorough enough to explain a pattern , they 're likely to be incomprehensible to the children . |
| 15 | Yorkshire have always attracted some of their most fervent support from the North-East and they are anxious not to see it all transferred to Durham . |
| 16 | And with the South Africans planning 18 more Tests and a glut of one day internationals in the next two years , they are anxious not to drain the energy of their top-flight fast bowler . |
| 17 | Blabbermouths are finished in the fringe City if they are stupid enough to get noticed for it . |
| 18 | Even if they are deep enough to house a few aquatic plants , it would be unwise to do this , for when used for their proper purpose , water turbulence is such that none but the coarsest and most vigorous aquatics would survive . |
| 19 | They are all there to greet us . |
| 20 | If you are fixing battens over existing rendering make sure they are long enough to give adequate penetration into the brickwork or blockwork beneath . |
| 21 | Creating curves in paths is n't too difficult if you use bricks , paviors or cobbles , as they are small enough to cut easily , or to lay in a tight curve . |
| 22 | It 's possible to keep a few goldfish in an unfiltered pond , as they are hardy enough to tolerate less than perfect conditions . |
| 23 | While males , especially conspecific males , can be decidedly hostile to one another , territorial requirements are small , and non-cichlids are left alone unless they are unwise enough to come too near to a female with fry . |
| 24 | Studded with ( studied ) disco clichés now distant enough to resonate with Antiques Roadshow mystique , throbbing with a new cyber-strength that the old classics could never match , they are smart enough to avoid a headlong plunge into unabashed shallowness . |
| 25 | They are harder still to interpret : what does a large attendance at Easter communion imply ? |
| 26 | Where geologically instantaneous events such as earthquakes are concerned , they are rigid enough to transmit the shock waves , like any solid . |
| 27 | The only point I would make is that you must wait until they are willing reflectively to turn around before you start operating with the abstractions . |
| 28 | Students must pass through three stages of training before they are ready actually to break something . |
| 29 | ‘ They are shrewd enough to appreciate that the appearance of pressure from outside is counter-productive in Israel , ’ one official said . |
| 30 | They are flexible enough to bend , making it simple to slot them into the side strips . |