Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 2 | The ‘ necessity ’ sought was not that of Newton 's grand mechanical scheme of iron laws and inescapable forces but was strong enough to sustain the thought that the international system is more than the constant and regular behaviour of its parts . |
| 3 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 4 | Also there were doubts as to whether the panelling in the proposed new location was strong enough to take the weight of the new clock and its ‘ sculptured ’ bracket . |
| 5 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 6 | And after about four months I thought I was strong enough to tackle the weight , and that it would n't be too much going on at once . |
| 7 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 8 | When food aid arrived in some of the outlying villages , the elders ' authority was strong enough to ensure a fair distribution . |
| 9 | Even in its infancy , India was strong enough to survive the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 . |
| 10 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 11 | It was hard to believe that this clumsy box of bricks was strong enough to withstand the pressure of its wings . |
| 12 | Neither side was strong enough to overcome the other . |
| 13 | It was pleasant not to have the complexities of crime on his mind for a change . |
| 14 | I reminded myself that if Conchis was rich enough to own Modiglianis and Bonnards , he was rich enough to pick the very best in mistresses . |
| 15 | The First Aid bloke coming to his rescue almost did the same , but was intact enough to lead the dazed lad down the players ' tunnel . |
| 16 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 17 | ‘ But I 've paid for you ! ’ he said , and this time it was loud enough to stop every conversation within a radius of twenty-five yards . |
| 18 | Once a child could walk and had , through dire necessity , learned how to shed a wet pair of training pants and put on his snow suit , he would vanish into the street , not to be seen again until lunch time ; once he was tall enough to reach the refrigerator door handle , the problem of lunch was also solved — he could get it himself . |
| 19 | Madness and Civilization was such a study , but the assumption that it was possible simply to lift the repression and to let otherness speak for itself was questioned by Derrida in his well-known critique , ‘ Cogito and the History of Madness ’ . |
| 20 | The battles over divorce during the period covered by Stone were about the licence to remarry , that is , about the formal recognition that it was possible fully to dissolve the marital contract . |
| 21 | I explained how , at the beginning of each world war , it was possible quickly to double the number of infantry battalions , gunner and other regiments . |
| 22 | Carroll House apart , there was little else to cheer the British challengers , with the failure of Luca Cumani 's Kefaah in the Prix du Rond-Point providing perhaps the biggest disappointment . |
| 23 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 24 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 25 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 26 | He was free not to contract the debt . |
| 27 | ‘ The last time I was in England I was foolish enough to take a woman into my confidence . |
| 28 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 29 | Photographer Andrew MacPherson , who 's more used to female models peering through the lens for Vogue magazine , was brave enough to take the picture |
| 30 | He hoped it would not be too long before she was brave enough to leave the bar . |