Example sentences of "[adj] enough for [art] " in BNC.

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1 I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement .
2 Once viewed as not ample enough for a family meal , duck is now available in boneless breast fillets and joints which make portion control and carving easier .
3 Nor is it stable enough for a faith without foundations .
4 The most densely populated town on the Nullarbor , Cook has 110 inhabitants , who live opposite each other on the widest street in the southern hemisphere , broad enough for a camel-train to make a U-turn .
5 We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft .
6 She could then either wait for the ferry , which was sporadic , or go back up to the head of the estuary and up to where the river was narrow enough for a bridge .
7 Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs .
8 " I 'm still strong enough for a tug , " said Stephanie , too brightly .
9 She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion .
10 It 's worth hiring a heavyduty cutting jig if you have a lot of quarries to cut ; ordinary cutters are n't strong enough for the job .
11 It is difficult to find words strong enough for the sensation which came over me ; Milton 's ‘ enormous bliss ’ of Eden ( giving the full , ancient meaning to ‘ enormous ’ ) comes somewhere near it .
12 It is equally important to ensure that all joints and connections between the wires , uprights , and anchorages are properly made and strong enough for the job ( see Figure 13 ) .
13 Just as the idea of a voyage was more satisfying than the trip itself for the poet Baudelaire , the Romantic tradition in France is strong enough for the idea of a well thought-out plan to be more important than its execution .
14 This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads .
15 The case is now strong enough for the weight of interest to shift to the other dimension of interpretation .
16 The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’
17 Is that enough for the time being ? — IM
18 It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter .
19 The problem was to find exports with which to pay for it ; English woollens and iron products were not luxurious enough for the ruling class in India and were far too expensive for the vast majority of the population .
20 Now all of that is sensible enough for the holiday-maker taking his or her annual two weeks in the sun , but like many packages , there are strings attached .
21 It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results .
22 At Nesseby we found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes , which were all feeding large young .
23 Nearly high enough for an army to cross , or a siege-tower .
24 A worried Bank of England used the weekend to negotiate for the Portuguese currency to start at a higher level than that planned on Friday , but it clearly was not high enough for the pound .
25 Tunnels and bridges must be high enough for the train to go under .
26 The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads .
27 If the quality is n't high enough for the final product the flexibility gained by using industry standard coding or a page description language such as PostScript means the same file can be passed to a professional typesetting system without the need for re-typing .
28 This is why thresholds are needed : when cat is presented , numerous logogens will be excited , but in every case the excitation will not be high enough for the threshold level to be reached — except for the logogen for cat , which will receive so much evidence that its threshold will be reached .
29 The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights .
30 Draft Companies House guidance for foreign companies operating in the UK may not be clear enough for the companies to be sure they are acting within the law , according to the Institute .
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