Example sentences of "[adj] enough [prep] [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 | This glove has since fulfilled my requirements for treasure hunting being tough enough , warm enough and dry enough for use on land sites , the beach and — obviously underwater . |
| 3 | It was n't performance-intensive enough for Silicon Grahpics Inc , but included stuff like multi-processor support that was completely unimportant in a mainstream Intel competitor , but yet it remained hard to design and debug . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | The sleek hull of a Viking boat was specially designed to be shallow enough and narrow enough for use on navigable rivers , along which Norsemen brought fire and the sword . |
| 6 | None of them were the graphical , scientific and engineering markets beloved amongst Unix workstation vendors , and the Oki machine was perhaps not strong enough on I/O to handle document imaging , for instance . |
| 7 | The protection of the local kings , the O'Connors , was not strong enough for Clonmacnoise to withstand disastrous raids by the Norman English in the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | It 's light enough for backpacking and touring , yet strong enough for youth groups . |
| 9 | Five days later he was strong enough for hospital doctors to allow him home again — this time by car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | so that was n't strong enough to shovel coal ? |
| 12 | The tedium and discomfort of life which prevailed between moments of action and danger , and the feeling that they would never be strong enough in morale or matériel to take the offensive themselves , were dispelled when Montgomery took command of the Eighth Army later in the summer . |
| 13 | The scrum has also looked solid enough to date , although no side has really put it under any pressure yet . |
| 14 | Something odd enough in shape not to be a normal part of living-room furniture . |
| 15 | 4 That he was n't interested enough in politics . |
| 16 | Never valuing him enough to be jealous , never arriving suddenly to catch him out , never finding his mail interesting enough to steam open ! |
| 17 | Still others — few enough in number — advance relentlessly for reasons even they find hard to fathom . |
| 18 | She had taught in a language school in Birmingham three mornings a week , a language school with a crèche , run by an enlightened Belgian woman , where Charlotte and Luke had gone until they were old enough for school . |
| 19 | And when he wanted to get some when he 's old enough for money There must be as well as around some fifty now . |
| 20 | Alexander , who resolutely persisted in being rude to his new parent , was judged old enough for boarding school six months later . |
| 21 | His daughters came on their ponies to Auntie 's shop to buy sweets , and they were educated at home until they were old enough for boarding-school . |
| 22 | But I knew he might not take this view — it is only hindsight that makes you take it , and he was not old enough for hindsight . |
| 23 | They were not er they were old enough to work , they were much older than me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This boy of yours is twenty-five years old , old enough to father children and break hearts . |
| 27 | Serious Koi-keepers should have such a system installed as a matter of course , for if a fish falls sick in winter it will need to be gradually warmed up until its immune system again begins to function , and until the water temperature is high enough for medication to be effective . |
| 28 | The presence or absence of reefs can not be explained solely in terms of temperature and turbidity , for , although reefs are absent from cold current shorelines , such as the west coast of South America , they do not occur even where the temperatures are high enough for coral in this region . |
| 29 | Where metal guttering shows signs of deterioration , but it is n't serious enough for replacement , use self-adhesive flashing tape to protect the damaged areas . |
| 30 | It 's easy enough to dirt . |