Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my towels were dry enough to iron . |
| 2 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 3 | This was the room where only last week they had eagerly discussed the merits of anchovy ( protagonist Auguste ) versus red wine sauce for fillets of John Dory ; whether sole on prawn mousse covered with aspic ( Alice 's invention ) brought out the true flavours of the fish , or smothered them ; whether mussels were preferable simply cooked in white wine or whether , as Emily contended , with cream and sorrel sauce added . |
| 4 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |
| 5 | Fortunately , they were professional enough to do the gig , but it served no useful purpose . |
| 6 | In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit . |
| 7 | Forest landowners could not even erect fences or hedges unless they were low enough to allow the deer to enter and leave , consequently crops were often destroyed by them . |
| 8 | The ground floor windows were low enough to look in and he could see into the-little office , which was empty . |
| 9 | The choir stalls were each carefully sculptured and the wood polished till it shone like burnished gold . |
| 10 | ‘ And what exactly do you think I might do to Kirsty if you were rash enough to leave her alone with me ? ’ |
| 11 | On occasion we were able to produce small fragments of intact retina that were suitable for microspectrophotometry and yet were extensive enough to answer the present question . |
| 12 | We assumed that we would be in control of the reaction , that we were strong enough to channel it . |
| 13 | But it remained uncertain whether they were strong enough to create conditions in which peace could be negotiated even on the most minimal of their terms . |
| 14 | When Peron was overthrown , these organisations were strong enough to resist opposition . |
| 15 | But after a century this ‘ artificial ’ system had created a political life and interests of its own which were strong enough to resist its replacement . |
| 16 | In the sixth century its ancient Christian traditions were strong enough to sustain resistance to Justinian 's attempts to dictate doctrine to the church . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |
| 18 | These two combines were strong enough to focus filmmakers ' creative and entrepreneurial energies , but not so dominant that they crushed out other centres of initiative . |
| 19 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 20 | The analysis of human motives is , of course , a precarious undertaking ; but some of the connections made in the past between scientific and religious ideals were strong enough to bear reconstruction in such terms . |
| 21 | She carried a small basket in her hand containing food for her frugal evening meal , although the rancid smells around her were strong enough to diminish any desire to eat — she had not yet grown sufficiently accustomed to them to ignore them . |
| 22 | It was introduced by confident elites who were strong enough to pay minimal wages and subject workers to appalling and often highly dangerous conditions ( particularly in the mining industry ) , extremely arduous hours of work and quick — if necessary , brutal — repression of worker demands . |
| 23 | ‘ Fox , although allowing me complete control over the physical side of making the picture , were strong enough to prevent me changing the script , ’ he said . |
| 24 | For example , where in 1967 there were eight fully exempting awards for the profession as a whole , with one in building surveying , by 1978 there were sixty-one , five of which were in building surveying ; where in 1967 , 8639 candidates sat the Institution 's examinations in all divisions , in 1978 there were only 4991 . |
| 25 | But even this overestimates the degree of homogeneity : some Nigerians were rich enough to escape being ‘ black ’ ; some whites were always too poor ever to be ‘ white ’ . |
| 26 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 27 | Despite this , his marks were high enough to win him a sought after place in the Indian Army . |
| 28 | He now thought that speciation could take place across a continuous territory if the conditions at the extremes of a species ' range were different enough to promote distinct ecological specializations . |
| 29 | They replied that Edmund left no claim to his brothers and had wanted Cnut to support and protect his sons until they were old enough to rule , and they also swore that they wished to elect Cnut king , humbly obey him , and pay tribute to his army . |
| 30 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |