Example sentences of "an [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , he was an old enough hand to know that nobody else in the room wanted to know the answer . |
| 2 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |
| 3 | That 's an interesting actually side chart , I mean this is completely off the agenda and things , but erm , I just had some information up from er , from RADA and er |
| 4 | But hardly more grateful than I am already , if grateful is an adequate enough word ! |
| 5 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 6 | It seems an appropriate enough reaction on watching someone struggle so much just to line up a ball . |
| 7 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 8 | An unambitious enough menu — and what a delicious surprise it would be to encounter such a meal at any one of those country town Hôtels des Voyageurs , du Commerce , du Lion d'Or , to which my own business affairs in France now take me . |
| 9 | The top two semitones , B ♯ and C are , however , rather difficult to produce and should only used at the end of an upward-rushing ff scale . |
| 10 | An estimate of how well the non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is conserved has been made by applying an exact fivefold rotation for a given atom and determining the r.m.s.d. from the observed positions . |
| 11 | That 's an unleaded only pump I think . |
| 12 | Force yourself to think of an effective here-and-now action and go ahead and do it . |
| 13 | It was highly unlikely that the chronic population discharged from the mental hospitals would provide an affluent enough target population to support self-funding mental health centres . |
| 14 | She knew that as a Deacon she was still an uncommon enough phenomenon in the Church to evoke curiosity . |
| 15 | It seemed an innocent enough thing to do . |
| 16 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 17 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 18 | The report of a nut of Trapa natans , the water chestnut , from Loch Ceann a'Bhaigh , S. Uist ( Heslop Harrison and Blackburn , 1946 ) would , if it is really of post-glacial age , indicate an enormous northward range-extension of Trapa ( see Flenley et al. , 1975 ) and suggest a major climatic warming . |
| 19 | These findings suggest that the formation of a specific complex between an IE protein and its own gene promoter may be a common mechanism used by alphaherpesvirinae to autoregulate transcription of an essential IE gene . |
| 20 | This is felt to be an inadequate preparation for the work of life , because it tends to produce a super-abundant supply of an indifferent clerkly class and to create and foster a distaste for agriculture and the handicrafts , which are more indispensable to the country and are better calculated to promote independence of character . |
| 21 | He must have been an eligible enough bachelor : the son of a fairly prosperous artisan family , trained as a craftsman , and quite a handsome chap into the bargain . |
| 22 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 23 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 24 | He was just about to stitch my up again when he saw a movement and pulled out an inch-and-a-half-long botfly larva , at which point the nurse in attendance fainted . ’ |
| 25 | Alas , there is little reason to be optimistic that this will develop into an influential enough movement to provoke radical change . |
| 26 | The Ayrshire Yeomanry had experienced an active enough war after all . |
| 27 | And the nonempiricist theories that they have meaning for us by virtue of our having encountered platonic forms in an earlier non-bodily life , or by virtue of having had ideas put into our mind-s by God , or by virtue of our having been born with them , can all be happily abandoned . |
| 28 | Jacqui was an attractive enough bit of stuff , but there were hundreds more like her and why should he stick to one ? |
| 29 | They found that the swamp was forcing them back and that they could no longer keep even an erratic southward course but were withdrawing towards the east , away from where they believed the Outlaws ' Camp lay . |