Example sentences of "a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 2 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 3 | Residents of Middridge , a pleasant enough village if you like Whitbread 's beer , will pay £243.56 poll tax in the coming financial year . |
| 4 | It was a pleasant enough day 's journey , largely along badger tracks . |
| 5 | He was a pleasant enough lad , but ever bored . |
| 6 | A pleasant enough appearance , but in no way memorable . |
| 7 | He 's a pleasant enough chap , though , and generally looks in to say hullo and have a glass of sherry on his way out to tramp over the common looking for flowers . |
| 8 | Yes yes yes He 's a pleasant enough chap . |
| 9 | He 's a pleasant enough chap |
| 10 | A narrow social grouping just does n't produce a rich enough mixture of ability and talent to regenerate a country . |
| 11 | But , although she smiled briefly at Folly in a friendly enough way , she seemed too distracted to wait for an answer , and started to usher them inside . |
| 12 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 13 | ‘ Hello , ’ she said , in what she thought was a friendly enough manner . |
| 14 | Before Windows 3.1 , Windows was not considered a solid enough environment to allow that to happen , and all the information processing was limited to the server . |
| 15 | There is , of course , a solid enough basis for such an image in the Gospels themselves . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the purse strings have been loosened sufficiently to provide a palatable enough feast . |
| 17 | The gains for the labour movement in the shipyards , at the power stations and on the streets were not therefore translated into electoral support for the Labour Party , on a broad enough basis . |
| 18 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 19 | On other issues , such as nuclear weapons , it could construct a broad enough coalition to determine party policy ( or , at the very least , limit Mr Kinnock 's room for manoeuvre ) . |
| 20 | This is n't giving a strong enough message that this murderous activity has to stop . |
| 21 | Humanity , before it had acquired a strong enough intellect and developed science and technology , had achieved the instinctual renunciations which make communal life possible by using purely affective forces . |
| 22 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the Air Staff , who preferred the military version of the VC-7 , the V-1000 , could not make a strong enough case to offset the commercial and political arguments favouring the Britannia . |
| 24 | Do we have a strong enough case to challenge the Revenue ? |
| 25 | Following a meeting with Energy Minister Tim Eggar , Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards said he was convinced it was now up to the colliery management to present a strong enough case for the pit to be taken off the Government hit-list . |
| 26 | Both men took heavy blows and by withstanding the best of the American 's punches Mason at least emphasised that he has a strong enough chin . |
| 27 | He 's not all that crazy about Pogo anyway — he says he is n't a strong enough character to keep me in order ! |
| 28 | Edward 's hopes of the crown had vanished before the gates of Rheims , but he was still in a strong enough position , with Ring John as his prisoner , to insist on a final solution to the problem of Aquitaine . |
| 29 | Now if you 've planted a seed or if you have n't planted a seed then are we in a strong enough position there to ask about the people we dis we discussed on completion of the er first appointment ? |
| 30 | The problem seems to be that social factors are not a strong enough time-cue . |