Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 2 | In fact , many years ago I was rash enough to suggest that the great Ankara melange itself ( humorously called by the locals turlu guvec — a Turkish version of Lancashire hotpot ) might be an Argille scagliose type of deposit . |
| 3 | Acting was unsatisfying ; he was clear-headed enough to recognise that he was not particularly talented , and he was permanently detached from the narcissism of the self-styled Glamour Capital of the World . |
| 4 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 5 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 6 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |
| 7 | The experience was painful enough to ensure that no-one did it again ; it simply was n't worth the risk . |
| 8 | He was wily enough to recognise that he did need his stepson ; more than David himself would ever know ; or at least needed him until his own son could be found and persuaded home . |
| 9 | Weatherhead was honest enough to realise that there are many aspects of religion about which one has to remain uncertain , that is , agnostic . |
| 10 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |
| 11 | However she was honest enough to feel that , as she had begun the courting by sending him the valentine , she ought not to refuse him now . |
| 12 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 13 | She needed help , professional help , and Kate was honest enough to admit that it could n't come from her or her mother . |
| 14 | She was honest enough to admit that she had become very single-minded , but Miss Efficiency ? |
| 15 | There was no reason why she should satisfy his curiosity and she was honest enough to admit that the only reason for doing so was because she was proud of her success . |
| 16 | GERRY Barron-Fox , newly appointed director of our Facilities Management Service , was delighted recently to announce that we have been awarded the contract for the management of multiple support activities at BP sites throughout Dorset and at Sherwood House , BP Wytch Farm . |
| 17 | He was clever enough to realise that he was defending the indefensible . |
| 18 | It was imperative now to show that the British could still govern , and Irwin confounded his critics by showing that he was the man to do it . |
| 19 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 20 | in Brazil the archbishop now in his late eighties I should think was renowned everywhere said that there 's a quote here from him on the Traidcraft leaflet . |
| 21 | This separation between decision-making and actual implementation might appear rigid , but in fact de Gaulle was flexible enough to recognize that conditions could change between the moment of decision and the moment of implementation and that sometimes these changes were fundamental enough to require a modification of the original decision . |
| 22 | Occasionally I was lucid enough to remember that I must never write about what was going on , or what I thought was going on . |
| 23 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
| 24 | He was shrewd enough to appreciate that here was someone who needed to be coaxed , not coerced . |
| 25 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 26 | She was shrewd enough to see that , if all the saintly characters were killed off , readers might be inclined to deduce that ‘ the sure reward of virtue is a fatal accident . ’ |
| 27 | He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything . |
| 28 | She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself . |
| 29 | He wished he was big enough to forget that she was a fat young woman with nothing about her but her voice . |
| 30 | Because she was naïve enough to think that married men did n't flirt with other women ? |