Example sentences of "enough [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yek bathing involved immersion up to the neck in water which was maintained at a temperature hot enough to strip the flesh from a man 's bones if he did not acclimatise himself to it gradually , and baths were communal . |
| 2 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 3 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |
| 4 | ‘ Meaning ? ’ he said softly , but she was n't fool enough to miss the anger beneath the seemingly mild question . |
| 5 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |
| 6 | By contrast , increased population counts will enable multiple retailers to identify towns which , for the first time , are large enough to sustain a branch . |
| 7 | Flax mills and handweavers — also useful generally because they helped at the harvest and other farm-intensive moments — came to these villages which were advertised as having little plots of land , enough to sustain a cow , and enough peat to keep a family fireplace burning , and enough life in general to support those married , or intending to marry . |
| 8 | The ‘ necessity ’ sought was not that of Newton 's grand mechanical scheme of iron laws and inescapable forces but was strong enough to sustain the thought that the international system is more than the constant and regular behaviour of its parts . |
| 9 | If you know that a dessert is likely to be particularly rich but it is something you relish , then do not eat so much of the main course ; you will then be hungry enough to enjoy the dessert without feeling sick or bloated . |
| 10 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 11 | Small enough to swim under and around , large enough to support a man , and big enough to teach all of us a lesson . |
| 12 | Nevertheless tabular evidence demonstrates that non-traditional students and mature student entrants as a category perform well enough to support a policy of providing opportunities for adults previously unable to enter higher education . |
| 13 | In Mexico , where 51 per cent of farm units are infra-subsistence , that is , not big enough to support a peasant family , the peasant must find other forms of income ( Stavenhagen 1974 ) . |
| 14 | Sequoia , which has had its share of brushes with bankruptcy in the past , is now growing at around 30% per annum , and the market that it 's in , fault-tolerant Unix systems , is lucrative enough to support a number of players . |
| 15 | The ITA decided to split the Northern region into separate Lancashire and Yorkshire franchises , each of which would be large enough to support a network company , increasing the number of these to five . |
| 16 | The group argues that the area is the only remaining block of forest large enough to support the country 's full range of animal and plant life in its natural habitat . |
| 17 | The investment required to get a small share of a market may not be very large ( in some markets ) but a great deal more investment is then required to increase this market share to the point where it is large enough to support the operation . |
| 18 | It must be dense enough to support the plant , porous enough to hold water , and open enough for air to diffuse through it to provide oxygen . |
| 19 | And 99 per cent of women have jobs , even if they have children , because one salary is not enough to support the family . |
| 20 | The bigger crust , once soaked , will give me more weight , as will the swan-shot , and the crust is big enough to support the weight of the shot . |
| 21 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 22 | What you need is a simple but effective structure or framework , strong enough to support the weight of your answer . |
| 23 | It is not enough to acknowledge the importance of collective entrepreneurship ; clear and consistent signals must reinforce the new story . |
| 24 | On what Chrissie Stone earned , it was hard enough maintaining the bathroom , let alone the whole five-bedroomed monstrosity of the house in East London . |
| 25 | Initially , Chilton has only been able to persuade the makers to turn out spools of line with a 70lb breaking strain , strong enough to tow a boat . |
| 26 | Just enough to see a nose and one eye . |
| 27 | I 've never had any difficulty sleeping and I try to stay awake long enough to see the cancer in my mind 's eye . |
| 28 | We may arrive in sight of the same conclusion , near enough to see the possibility of rooting all valuation in a single principle of awareness , by an approach from the opposite direction . |
| 29 | He was with the Post Office long enough to see the withdrawal and eventual reinstatement of the handy Sunday collections . |
| 30 | This seems to imply that only we are " clever " enough to see the mimicry in all its glory . |