Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course there were a lot of questions , but right now the answers did n't matter ; it was enough just to enjoy the questions , and know that the world was full of astonishing things , and that he was n't a frog . |
| 2 | This had the advantage of assuring leadership by a strong adult rather than the possibility of a child inheriting — a hazard which was so frequently to affect the later Stuart dynasty . |
| 3 | He told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the universe after the big bang , but we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God . |
| 4 | The number could easily have been doubled , and doubled again , in further trips , but what I had discovered was already enough to reveal the full horror of what was happening . |
| 5 | But there was scarcely enough to colour the greyness of Christmas Day itself . |
| 6 | ‘ The valves are set according to the weather conditions , and the setting it was on was just enough to cause the tanker to leak slightly . |
| 7 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
| 8 | If Scotland was ever again to have a free , strong ruler , there had to be consistent support from the nobles . |
| 9 | But at Tunis his own career was once again to take a new turn . |
| 10 | Then all at once Rachel had to fight a sudden impulse to go and find David , for at that moment all she wanted was once more to feel the strength of his arms around her . |
| 11 | But the ‘ decay heat ’ from the reaction was still enough to cause the uranium fuel to begin to melt . |
| 12 | This was Tom Chalmers , who had already had a great influence on the development of broadcasting in Nigeria and was later also to have a major impact on the development of radio in Malawi , Zambia , Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland . |
| 13 | The possibility of a bid from an unwelcome quarter ( notably the Canadian Carling magnate E. P. Taylor and his United Breweries , later merged with Charrington and subsequently part of Bass ) was often enough to persuade the directors to approach a more acceptable company for protection . |
| 14 | Her plan was really just to find the place , then go away and have tea somewhere while she waited for him . |
| 15 | He inspired spite : critics called him a male Farah Fawcett , said he was pretty enough to make a convincing transvestite . |
| 16 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 17 | This was grievous enough , but there was worse : the confidence and coherence of the Austrian Army had been broken in these first weeks of the war , and it was never again to comprise an efficient military weapon . |
| 18 | It is clear that the Tories enjoyed fairly solid electoral support from the ‘ middle classes ’ , but given the relative numerical strength of the ‘ classes ’ in Britain , this was never enough to win an election , and a substantial minority of the working class provided around half of the Tory vote . |
| 19 | CORPORATE bankruptcies in Japan rose only 2.7 per cent in January and their resulting debt fell more than 40 per cent from a year ago , but analysts said that it was too soon to say the worst was over . |
| 20 | We know what happened : Enya was very quickly to attract the attention of David Puttman and had two successful soundtrack recordings for the BBC , ‘ The Frog Prince ’ and ‘ The Celts ’ . |