Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A narrow social grouping just does n't produce a rich enough mixture of ability and talent to regenerate a country .
2 There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed .
3 Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year .
4 Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest , while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year .
5 It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time .
6 This is a high enough level of protection to control the diseases and prevent epidemics devastating whole communities .
7 The real trick is then to sustain a high enough level of air play , press and TV to allow the record to ‘ cross-over ’ and appeal to people other than the band 's fans .
8 There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies .
9 There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies .
10 However , so few of the possible quadgrams occur in the LOB ( and of those found , 70% only occur once ) that it would appear that the LOB corpus is not a large enough sample of text to provide a reliable quadgram model .
11 Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game .
12 They are carried by it only if the water has enough energy to lift and shift them — that is , if there is a great enough mass of water , moving sufficiently quickly .
13 ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said .
14 I think that Rocky & Deane will have a good enough rest of season to get then squad places
15 Will I have a good enough share of time if I allow myself to listen first and tell second ?
16 this is a very ancient snail with a flat nearly disc like form , with fine growth lines and occasional courser knobs .
17 We 'd have our own generator too , only there 's not a big enough head of water to our spring .
18 The trick in designing a successful patent system is to provide a big enough incentive for invention , but not such a large and long-lived cushion that the benefits of competition are suppressed for ever .
19 It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district .
20 Momentarily transfixed , I soon realised we had run into a very dense patch of phosphorescence , a common enough phenomenon at sea which never failed to fascinate me .
21 There was n't a wide enough field of vision to make much out , beyond the slime-laden walls of the pit , but , just for an instant , the Doctor could have sworn that something moved in the reflexive way of an uncomfortable sleeper .
22 It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies .
23 Jacqui was an attractive enough bit of stuff , but there were hundreds more like her and why should he stick to one ?
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