Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Goebbels 's rousing ‘ total war ’ speech on 18 February 1943 stirred the Party faithful again for a short time . |
| 4 | ‘ T would have been easy enough for a determined boy to climb the wall and follow them . |
| 5 | I never had the opportunity to tell Christie of my method of making up crews , At Kinloss when I was chair-bound there for a short period , all too frequently I received complaints about the composition of crews . |
| 6 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 7 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 8 | They are useful only for a single set of data and can not be used to compare two sets unless two pies each representing different totals are compared . |
| 9 | " Good enough for a working theory , anyway . " |
| 10 | ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Bob rose to the challenge and in January 1991 his first task was to replace hundreds of original magnesium allow rivets , which were good enough for a static rebuild , but not if the aircraft was to fly again . |
| 12 | However , the colour quality is not good enough for a conventional printing system to reproduce , what that needs is colour separations . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 14 | He stood still again for a long moment ; then lifted his head , sighing deeply . |
| 15 | The City of London Police ( who are responsible only for a square mile at the centre of London ) are controlled by a committee of elected councillors . |
| 16 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 17 | DO N'T WORRY IF YOUR WALLET IS N'T FAT ENOUGH FOR A READY-MADE LAN STATION . |
| 18 | It all might be serviceable enough for a Polish field-worker to wear during the potato harvest , but it was surely no serious proposal for festive dressing . |
| 19 | The 1st Shadwell Pack had been very busy indeed for a long time . |
| 20 | I always thought I 'd like to be stuck there for a dirty weekend . ’ |
| 21 | only we were stuck there for a little while last time could n't get out could we ? |
| 22 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 23 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 24 | Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary . |
| 25 | … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing . |
| 26 | In the calculation of moduli , whether the " chain " modulus or the bulk modulus , it has been assumed that the displacements are small enough for a Hookean spring to be the model for the interaction . |
| 27 | " Fine , " said John , " but they are too far away for a good picture . " |
| 28 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 29 | Underneath you 'll find an oven big enough for a family-sized turkey . |
| 30 | Well I do n't think they 're big enough for a big tent , I mean one is fairly long , but er I do n't |