Example sentences of "[adj] enough to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a fish was receptive enough to electricity to pick up any tiny currents induced in its body , they would provide an additional guide to the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 2 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
| 3 | A vet told the inquiry her Jersey herd is unique , her natural breeding programme has produced the only such herd strong enough to winter outdoors . |
| 4 | so that was n't strong enough to shovel coal ? |
| 5 | The scrum has also looked solid enough to date , although no side has really put it under any pressure yet . |
| 6 | Never valuing him enough to be jealous , never arriving suddenly to catch him out , never finding his mail interesting enough to steam open ! |
| 7 | They were not er they were old enough to work , they were much older than me . |
| 8 | But in the first instance , as I say we , I was one of six children and er I do n't think there was one working while they was , I mean they was all born before there was anybody old enough to work , you find , that 's And our Albert , me dad had Albert up and he er never give me mother any wages for Albert . |
| 9 | And I said to me mother , I says look here , when I 'm old enough to work I say 's , I ai n't going to work for me dad I shall get a job on me own . |
| 10 | This boy of yours is twenty-five years old , old enough to father children and break hearts . |
| 11 | It 's easy enough to dirt . |
| 12 | I do n't know enough actuarial work to be able to and what settlements they should receive , but our own experience is that it 's hard enough to round up pensioners to form an association and we embody deferred pensioners and they 're even harder . |
| 13 | Garlic cloves are cooked in their skins so they become soft enough to purée into a delicious sauce |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm quite fit enough to work , ’ she protested . |
| 15 | If people are fit to work , they are fit enough to cycle five miles ( on average , 74 per cent of all car journeys are less than five miles ) . |
| 16 | of course it would , but it 's not long enough to bag |
| 17 | I 'm not stupid enough to risk taking hold of your muddy paw now ; you 'll pull me in too ! ’ |
| 18 | None of the dealers I spoke to felt confident enough to sex Peacock Gobies , so I purchased seven fish from three different dealers . |
| 19 | There was no sign of either Ferdinando or Annunciata in the kitchen so she was bold enough to tip-toe towards the drawing room where she hesitated again and peered round the door . |
| 20 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 21 | Her period then came early and flooded and the symptoms were severe enough to warrent a new prescription ( the Staphisagria was n't helping ) which came out to Millefolium . |
| 22 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 23 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 24 | Sombre interior roomy enough to seat four comfortably but interior styling lacks charisma . |
| 25 | A polished mahogany table , big enough to seat twenty people , ran down the middle of it . |
| 26 | Feminist psychologies which work by association , stay close enough to psychology 's concerns to be able to contest them . |
| 27 | Older surveys such as those by Mauriel and Anthony ( 1966 ) , Tomkins ( 1973 ) , and Reece and Cool ( 1978 ) , and more recent studies such as those of Pike ( 1983 ) , Scapens and Sale ( 1985 ) and Cornwell ( 1987 ) , do not get close enough to behaviour in specific contexts to reveal whether companies are suffering from a misuse of ROI . |
| 28 | Posters , magazines , even songs , held out the prospect of Arcadia within travelling distance of the metropolis — a detached house in leafy seclusion , but close enough to golf club , tennis club , and railway station . |
| 29 | Benny Lynch is an example close enough to home . |
| 30 | For the latter lot , only ‘ The Hair Pillow ’ , illuminated by singer Craig Wedren 's glorious , bizarre falsetto , sticks close enough to convention to be more a pleasure than an endurance test . |