Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground floor windows were low enough to look in and he could see into the-little office , which was empty . |
| 2 | ( And even if the political will did exist , he doubted whether the institutions which would have to translate it into collective action were strong enough to do so . ) |
| 3 | Both were old enough to feel keenly the savage blow , one from which Leonard suffered in particular , albeit outwardly in guarded silence : ‘ The deeper the sorrow , the less tongue it has , ’ said the rabbis . |
| 4 | She got over her homesickness pretty quickly and he used to come over here with her every year until we were old enough to come instead . ’ |
| 5 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 6 | People have entered its secret paths and entrances and have either never returned or , if they were fortunate enough to do so , came out with their minds mazed , their wits scattered . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You knew I was unworldly and naïve , and you were clever enough to know how to appeal to me : through children , through my longing for family , my sexual inexperience . |
| 8 | Reigning in their verbal and facial expressiveness to play a character so damaged that a big speech is possible ( if at all ) only at the end , they subsequently receive an award from a jury awed that they were clever enough to play so dumb . |
| 9 | He explains that most specialist dies are , of course , catered for , including vegetarian dishes , which , I noticed , were unusual enough to tempt even the staunchest of meat-eaters like myself . |
| 10 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 11 | I tried myself this morning , in case you were fit enough to go home , but still no answer . ’ |
| 12 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 13 | The residential streets did n't like it early in the morning , the clatter of Midnight 's hooves on their concrete drives , but she was no worse than the milkman , and they were quick enough to scoop up any free dung for their roses , she noticed . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the new wealth was subject to some control through institutions which were central to the image of Arab government ( household , lineage ) even if the wider groupings were likely eventually to break down under the pressures of differentiation . |
| 15 | Few Britons in the middle of the eighteenth century had seen the ocean or were likely ever to do so . |
| 16 | In the court were twelve tiny cottages and I only remember a few of the families who were unfortunate enough to live there — the Pragnells , Goodfellows , Wheadons , Dears , Rattues and Dawkins . |
| 17 | Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday . |
| 18 | These were deep enough to bathe in and , after three days of sweaty walking , this open-air jacuzzi was most welcome ! |
| 19 | Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on . |
| 20 | I did n't need to use any weights as the skeins were heavy enough to pull out the kinks . |
| 21 | This conservative response , led by the fiery Abbot Joseph of Volokolamsk , carried the day , and Ivan 's successors were unable even to halt effectively the further growth of ecclesiastical landholding . |
| 22 | What if you were unable ever to work again ? |
| 23 | What if you were unable ever to work again ? |
| 24 | Neither Charles Booth nor Seebohm Rowntree were sociologists ; they were just wealthy men with strong social consciences who were interested in the problems of poverty and were able enough to carry out quite sophisticated studies of this phenomenon in London and York at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Only the children were courageous enough to step out of hiding and watch her . |
| 26 | The walls of the cottage were thick enough to shut out the worst sounds of the storm 's buffeting , and even the creaking of doors and rattling of windows could not keep me awake for long . |
| 27 | It took her a minute to unlock the car and then she sat shaking behind the wheel , waiting until her hands were steady enough to switch on the ignition . |
| 28 | Although we found the geese , the nests were long deserted and the large creches of goslings were big enough to run much faster than we could . |
| 29 | It seemed to me that if the Fraxillians were docile enough to put up with their misery , and stupid enough to believe in their rulers divinity , they were n't likely to offer much of a threat to him or to my delivery . |
| 30 | The cold and damp were bad enough to put up with , without adding the stink of stale piss to his overall discomfort . |