Example sentences of "was [adj] enough [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even in its infancy , India was strong enough to survive the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 . |
| 5 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 6 | It was hard to believe that this clumsy box of bricks was strong enough to withstand the pressure of its wings . |
| 7 | Neither side was strong enough to overcome the other . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 've paid for you ! ’ he said , and this time it was loud enough to stop every conversation within a radius of twenty-five yards . |
| 9 | Once a child could walk and had , through dire necessity , learned how to shed a wet pair of training pants and put on his snow suit , he would vanish into the street , not to be seen again until lunch time ; once he was tall enough to reach the refrigerator door handle , the problem of lunch was also solved — he could get it himself . |
| 10 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 11 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 12 | ‘ The last time I was in England I was foolish enough to take a woman into my confidence . |
| 13 | Photographer Andrew MacPherson , who 's more used to female models peering through the lens for Vogue magazine , was brave enough to take the picture |
| 14 | He hoped it would not be too long before she was brave enough to leave the bar . |
| 15 | In the kitchen the fire was burning low but there was light enough to see the steam rising from the bedclothes as they held them out to air . |
| 16 | He was open-minded enough to appreciate the skill displayed in the carving and scholarly enough to value the insight into Chinese mentality offered by its imagery . |
| 17 | ‘ Since I was old enough to carry a money-bag , I 've trudged round the streets , knocking on every door of every property you own … aye , and sometimes I 've had a fist in my face for the trouble , but never once have I let you down . |
| 18 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 19 | By eight I was old enough to clean the house and do the weekend shopping . |
| 20 | Cos the girls were a little bit different sort of understand , I think Matthew suffered , Matthew was the one that , that had suffered through it , he was four , and he was old enough to understand a little bit more he knew how brushing off on him |
| 21 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 22 | Theodora was generous enough to have no irony at all in her tone . |
| 23 | He had to borrow heavily to finance it all — borrowings went up from around £120million to £225million — but he was cautious enough to keep the amount he owed within the limits of his assets and income . |
| 24 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 25 | The Social Democrats had a strong candidate in Rudolf Scharping , who was leftish enough to keep the backing of the party faithful , calmly reassuring on economic matters to middle-of-the-road voters . |
| 26 | With a group of others , I was misguided enough to raid the school strawberry beds . |
| 27 | These include requiring a Court before giving a custodial sentence to consider a report by the probation service and to give reasons for such a sentence , except for the most serious offences ; also to satisfy itself that the offence was serious enough to justify the use of custody . |
| 28 | I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds . |
| 29 | In 1961 , I was fortunate enough to win a by-election in the constituency of Worcester . |
| 30 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |