Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declarer was alert enough to put this information to good use . |
| 2 | A 43-year-old man was due today to appear before Leeds magistrates charged in connection with the rape of a 71year-old widow at her home in the city 's Hawksworth district on Saturday night . |
| 3 | A 10% jump in half-time profits to £617,000 was due mainly to cost savings . |
| 4 | Nothing satisfied his urge to descend lower , until he was low enough to identify with these men who lay entombed in cramped cells , and crawled on all fours in the dark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 11 | She was strong enough to carry on , to make the most of what she had left . |
| 12 | They offered the essentially optimistic message that nature was strong enough to resist destruction by human agencies — the climax could easily be restored if humankind chose to set aside areas for conservation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whatever it was , it was strong enough to kill his wife and two of his children within the hour . |
| 15 | An hour or so was spent drafting a new outline for this second approach on the mysteries of the Coniunctio and , when she was satisfied that its thread was strong enough to guide her through the maze , she took up again the pursuit of Mercurius through the bridal-chambers of the mind . |
| 16 | Whether any of the grudges was strong enough to justify murder was another consideration he put on one side for the time being . |
| 17 | PAUL BEDWORTH is small and slightly built but he was strong enough to push his mother down a flight of attic stairs when she tried to stop him using his computer . |
| 18 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So the Collector had arranged that the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , should be at his side in the most central part of the Residency ready to wield the Church bell which had been toppled from its tower earlier in the siege and which only he was strong enough to lift . |
| 21 | The divine love on the other hand was strong enough to invade and recapture the world , but God chose a different avenue of attack . |
| 22 | He was strong enough to do that without effort . |
| 23 | Yet , in the context of the long-standing dispute of Aquitaine , Edward III 's claim was strong enough to persuade him that he ought to pursue it , if only as an alternative means of achieving sovereign rule in Aquitaine . |
| 24 | Two days passed before the man was strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his story . |
| 25 | The real European complaint was that US financial power attracted funds to New York and that US industrial power was strong enough to allow it to organize successfully a large volume of production overseas . |
| 26 | Perhaps Eleanor was strong enough to force Gina out of his life and house , and help him to a new beginning . |
| 27 | But the light from the refrigerator itself showed me what had happened … there was a lot of food on the shelves , but it was strong enough to see … ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 30 | But none of these was strong enough to make much difference to the general picture of eighteenth-century Europe as overwhelmingly monarchical . |