Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup .
2 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 .
3 We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft .
4 Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’
5 It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter .
6 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 .
7 He offered to set Jesus free instead of a man called Barabbas , a nationalist who had led some minor revolt against the Romans .
8 Quill-written characters consist of a series of more-or-less straight strokes , simple enough for a computer to turn into numbers and analyse , but complex enough to vary from scribe to scribe .
9 Designaknit is simple enough for a child to use .
10 An antagonist is a substance which is similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors , but is not similar enough to fit perfectly and change the cell 's membrane potential , thereby blocking the receptor .
11 IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool .
12 A draught whipped his bare legs , and he glanced over his shoulder , along the passage ; there was a hole in the little window beside the back door , just large enough for a hand to come through and turn the key in the lock … .
13 The length of the synthetic sequence should be long enough for a pattern to emerge ; the length of the four sequences given above is not sufficient for reliable conclusions to be drawn .
14 The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms .
15 In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times .
16 There was some scepticism as to whether performance would be good enough in a system built from the bottom up in objects .
17 This lack of consensus on the way semantically and grammatically related sentences should be characterized is itself troublesome enough to a sociolinguist seeking guidance from syntactic theory ; but to make things even more difficult , the very notion of semantic equivalence is a disputed one .
18 I try not to cook anything that requires lengthy boiling just before a party to prevent the kitchen being turned into a Turkish bath .
19 You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably .
20 There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through .
21 Six feet down , there is a huge circular cellar , ten or twelve feet across and two feet or so high , quite big enough for a man to crawl into .
22 If you can pull them out you can make a hole big enough for a man to get inside .
23 The temperature dependence of η can normally be expressed in the form where A is a constant and ΔE D represents the activation energy required to create a hole big enough for a molecule to translate or ‘ jump ’ into during flow .
24 The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on .
25 When all the plates were riveted together , the structure would form a square tube fourteen feet wide and about twenty-five feet high overall — big enough for a train to pass through .
26 They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped .
27 And I went oh God , that 's probably cos it did n't happen like this and he goes oh right and he goes yeah got a bit excited there for a minute did n't you son like and went er yeah well Andy I like , quite like him , he 's quite sweet but
28 Duncan stood there , naked apart from a towel wrapped round his mid-section .
29 If , like me , you prefer biodegradable pots , nestle them close together in a seedtray to ensure that their walls stay moist .
30 This is cheap enough for a user to want to buy one rather than go on a commercial training course .
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