Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the advice Mrs then is if you know what variety it is and you know it 's a variety tough enough to grow outdoors like er Peregrine , then send protection at the susceptible time of the year when the blossom 's out , otherwise er if it is a tend a more tender variety we do n't think er the thing is going to survive and certainly not going to fruit . |
| 2 | Further enhancements could include a case big enough to hold various components of the system like the power supply unit and Microdrive interface or other add-ons . |
| 3 | I hope the work will be interesting , I was a bit disappointed not to have the chance to tackle my own book as the main editor at last but of course one does n't want to rock the boat too much — there are too many people who 'd happily fill my shoes . |
| 4 | Think you were a bit young then to take pictures . |
| 5 | First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming . |
| 6 | ‘ We have played well there so far and were a bit unlucky not to beat Norway and Holland . ’ |
| 7 | I think it 's a bit wrong perhaps to say it did n't affect Britain . |
| 8 | Yanto was a bit unsure how to take him as he stood there swaying and Billy 's befuddled mind was getting angrier by the second . |
| 9 | I am a bit embarrassed not to have written sooner but , inter alia , have been a little ‘ below par ’ this last week with a stinking cold and sore throat . |
| 10 | He has a budget generous enough to allow creative cooking with the likes of caviar , fresh asparagus and smoked salmon at his contract , and also works within an environment that he finds friendly and relatively stress-free . |
| 11 | Perpetual spinach and carrots will tolerate growing close together , but any flowering plant wants elbow room if it is to develop a stem strong enough to support the branches that will spring from it . |
| 12 | In surviving the conspicuous favour of Edward II in order to go on to win that of Edward III he had followed a course unusual enough to suggest both his high abilities and his political dexterity . |
| 13 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 14 | Dr Gary Coles has designed a sensor accurate enough to monitor tiny changes in exhaust gases given off while the vehicle is being driven . |
| 15 | I always held that view and did all I could to press for an election before Christmas in order that we might get a majority large enough to stand the racket . " |
| 16 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 17 | I drove the girls around the suburbs until we found a newsagent big enough to sell maps and stuffed behind a wad of yellowing unfunny birthday cards , I found an Ordnance Survey map of the Blackberry Hill region . |
| 18 | Mix the wine , sugar , and spices in a saucepan large enough to hold the pears upright . |
| 19 | You ought to go to Yelton yourself and see the privation there , but I do n't suppose you could walk as far as your gate , never mind finding a horse strong enough to carry you . |
| 20 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 21 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 22 | They made a water gate in the south wall and built a boathouse large enough to accommodate three barges , thereby gaining rent paid by two other users . |
| 23 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 24 | A wind large enough to make it certain that no Yule feast could be held , and small enough to allow the workmen and their womenfolk and the hall people who were over already to cross to the shore and spend Christmas with a clear conscience at home … |
| 25 | One notes with approval the prominent place given to The Daily Telegraph in the order of daily reading ; her ‘ oldie ’ taste for a Roberts radio , which she surely calls a wireless , and a telephone heavy enough to act as a doorstopper . |
| 26 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 27 | How can you use your descriptions of place — a room , a garden bench , the large cupboard under the stairs , a lift in a block of flats — to create a mood strong enough to sustain your story ? |
| 28 | A poor peasant , who made up seventy percent of the population , is a peasant who does n't have a plot big enough to support himself and his family . |
| 29 | He continued to speculate on the subject , and wrote letters to various journals , but seems to have done little further practical work until 1849 , when a glider large enough to carry a small boy was launched in free flight at Brompton . |
| 30 | On the other hand , it requires a membership large enough to enable it to represent a significant number of credit managers . |