Example sentences of "and [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To pace yourself , doing enough to pay for a comfortable life and little enough to stay invisible . |
| 2 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 3 | Every year the total amount of pollutants emitted by vehicles in the UK would fill a tunnel 10 metres wide and long enough to encircle the earth . |
| 4 | His hair was dark and long enough to fall over his eyebrows when it dropped forward . |
| 5 | For a standard rose , cut a strip of hessian sacking about 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) wide , and long enough to go round the plant stem twice . |
| 6 | There would be no engagement for her , but she felt that Claudine would cling hard enough and long enough to win . |
| 7 | I then knit a piece of lace fabric just wide enough to stretch round the base of the cone and long enough to cover it . |
| 8 | The hide was twelve inches deep , both wide and long enough to fit one man and his equipment in . |
| 9 | Colour another piece of fondant black , roll out and cut three strips about 2cm ( ¾inch ) wide and long enough to wrap around the rocket . |
| 10 | So their revolt is fraught with contradictions — resilient and yet pessimistic , they have the stamina to survive and not enough to spare . |
| 11 | The long journey home was a nightmare of hot sticky carriages and not enough to drink ( my thirst was terrible all day ) . |
| 12 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 13 | As the details of the US involvement are revealed , the administration is coming under fire from normally dovish Democrats on Capitol Hill for not acting swiftly and decisively enough to take advantage of the opportunity to end General Noriega 's rule . |
| 14 | I was still in the news room , though , and near enough to hear one of my own colleagues respond to a video of Terry Anderson in captivity with a dismissive , ‘ We 're not running that ; it 's not newsworthy ’ , as he tossed the cassette to one side . |
| 15 | Friendly Society membership throughout the period , however , came almost exclusively from the more secure , respectable stratum of the male working class , those who earned enough and regularly enough to contribute . |
| 16 | But the channel was wide enough and deep enough to allow quite large vessels to come very close to the castle-stacks , certainly well within range of their cannon and mangonels . |
| 17 | Dig a hole wide and deep enough to accommodate the root system without undue bending and fill it with water . |
| 18 | Make it a loose fit over the frame and deep enough to rest on the base-board . |
| 19 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 20 | It is flexible enough to bend around the channel in the woodwork , and hard enough to push back the steel Yale bolt . |
| 21 | But at mid-height , on Newby Moss , there is a purple patch of excitement in a tight concentration of potholes , some of great depth , others ornamented around their surface openings by shrubs and heather , and pretty enough to make one wish they could be transported to the back garden at home . |