Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] enough in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you were interested enough in that were n't you ? |
| 2 | Perhaps just one more éclair — God , they were minute enough in all conscience . |
| 3 | The P-51s and P-47s in Japan were being replaced by jets ; these might be obsolescent viewed from the highest standards but they were acceptable enough in Korea . |
| 4 | His intentions were clear enough in his own mind , but it was decidedly difficult to make a beginning , particularly when Dimity was so busy . |
| 5 | But they were similar enough in method and assumption to suggest possible cross-fertilization . |
| 6 | Er , and all in all , it was quite er it 's quite it was quite an experience , er er to have seen er this this er this police er er baton charge , er and er we were fortunate enough in in being able to get out of the way . |
| 7 | There had been military expeditions to establish English authority in Wales in 1277 and to maintain it there in 1282–3 and again in 1287 , and these were costly enough in their way , but they paled in comparison with the activity and demands of the 1290s . |
| 8 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 9 | Elected assemblies were uncommon enough in English life to encourage the Virginia assembly to treat the House of Commons as the natural parallel to its own position and to look to Commons precedents as a guide to its rights and duties . |
| 10 | Hospitia were numerous enough in 866 , for instance , for a special rate to be assigned them when Charles " imposed a payment throughout his whole realm " to pay tribute to Vikings . |
| 11 | By 1800 wagon services were numerous enough in most parts of the country to be timetabled . |
| 12 | The figures were wildly optimistic , although the real events were dramatic enough in themselves . |
| 13 | The connections between gender and class were apparent enough in the early modern period , and if the transvestite was a pervert or invert it was precisely in the pre-sexological senses of these ideas ; whether actually or only in the paranoid imagination of the dominant , she was regarded as upsetting the entire social domain , even when her sexual ‘ orientation ’ was not the issue . |
| 14 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 15 | Although most peasants preferred self-sufficient , family-sized holdings , agricultural labourers were common enough in this and similar regions of thoroughgoing mixed husbandry . |
| 16 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 17 | Of course , she had known that more unofficial arrangements were common enough in England . |
| 18 | And then w that was when I were big enough in in in the hay and the corn harvest to er be in charge of the carts . |
| 19 | In general the " topping workmen " were rare enough in London and hardly existed elsewhere , except perhaps in some branches of the metal trades in Sheffield or Birmingham . |
| 20 | He was pleasant enough in general , though most people who met him formed the vaguest of ideas that he might be dangerous in some unspecified way . |
| 21 | There was little enough in her life that she could honestly say was exciting , but that morning she was a little nervous , and , yes , a little excited . |
| 22 | The place itself was clear enough in her mind , there had been no surprises when she walked up the path and entered the small high room . |
| 23 | Anyway , I was interested enough in Roxie to look the case up again … |
| 24 | The south-facing windows caught all the available light which was meagre enough in the winter . |
| 25 | This departure from the T'ang 's normal practices was remarkable enough in itself , but what had happened at the beginning of the meal had surprised even his father . |
| 26 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 27 | He was well enough in February , however , to attend a poetry reading at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ; but it was not a pleasant occasion . |
| 28 | ‘ Captured ’ was well enough in its way , at least it disabled and immobilised him . |
| 29 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 30 | Only the hull mounted cellular disrupter was flexible enough in its calibration response for what he had in mind . |