Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | diabolically malevolent dwarf , the chief villain of the Old Curiosity Shop ‘ … his head and face were large enough for the body of a giant . |
| 2 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 3 | His eyes were hard again for an instant . |
| 4 | The perfectly kept living-rooms of Tollemarche homes were for visitors ; the basements , despite their fire hazards , were good enough for the children ; there they often slept and there , if the temperature went much below zero , they also played . |
| 5 | They were safe enough for the present . |
| 6 | the next leg to La Rochelle saw us arrive five minutes after the pumps shut , so we were stuck there for the night . |
| 7 | Organization and expertise were available there for the financing of increasingly complicated business . |
| 8 | Another landing when they were close together for a moment , and then another descent . |
| 9 | This conspiracy between State and museums was humiliating even for the museums , because in case of need , the State could sell what it liked from their collections . |
| 10 | She was sorry immediately for the outburst . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 13 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Prudential appealed , contending that there were two contracts and that stamp duty was payable only for the land and the works completed on 18 October 1989 . |
| 16 | Most of the grandstands were full and the sun was warm enough for the men to have taken off their jackets and the women their cardigans . |
| 17 | Mitch was thoughtful too for a moment and then he asked , ‘ Why did n't you tell him you spoke Spanish ? ’ |
| 18 | When it was late enough for the embassy to be fully staffed , Agnes called to say she probably would n't be in , but could perhaps be contacted at the motel number . |
| 19 | High Lane 's 159 all out was good enough for a draw against Woodford who reached 136 -8 . |
| 20 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |
| 21 | But an Auxetophone was ; and although the resulting records had a very poor frequency range , it was good enough for the voice of the quail . |
| 22 | ‘ You bitch ! ’ he whispered as the car drew up in front of the country house hotel that her father had decided was good enough for the reception to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter to the reigning world champion . |
| 23 | ‘ If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul/Disraeli it 's good enough for me ’ at one end . |
| 24 | As such he was responsible both for the retirement of Lord George Bentinck [ q.v. ] from its leadership in 1847 , after his vote for Jewish emancipation , and for the resumption of the title Conservative for his party in 1848 . |
| 25 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 26 | Today she was hungry only for the house . |
| 27 | This treatment was of no use for aeroplanes because it could only be used when the component was small enough for the formalin to penetrate . |
| 28 | Yet people acted as though there was such a thing and this illusion was essential both for the working of capitalism and for the acceptability of the exploitation on which capitalism was based . |
| 29 | In the midst of all this young life it was fortunate that the house was roomy enough for the professor still to get enough quiet and space to write . |
| 30 | On both the family and the part-time farm it was difficult often for the husband to set aside time to go to all the training courses he would like to attend . |