Example sentences of "an [adj] enough [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , he was an old enough hand to know that nobody else in the room wanted to know the answer . |
| 2 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |
| 3 | But hardly more grateful than I am already , if grateful is an adequate enough word ! |
| 4 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 5 | It seems an appropriate enough reaction on watching someone struggle so much just to line up a ball . |
| 6 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 7 | An unambitious enough menu — and what a delicious surprise it would be to encounter such a meal at any one of those country town Hôtels des Voyageurs , du Commerce , du Lion d'Or , to which my own business affairs in France now take me . |
| 8 | It was highly unlikely that the chronic population discharged from the mental hospitals would provide an affluent enough target population to support self-funding mental health centres . |
| 9 | She knew that as a Deacon she was still an uncommon enough phenomenon in the Church to evoke curiosity . |
| 10 | It seemed an innocent enough thing to do . |
| 11 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 12 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 13 | He must have been an eligible enough bachelor : the son of a fairly prosperous artisan family , trained as a craftsman , and quite a handsome chap into the bargain . |
| 14 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 15 | Alas , there is little reason to be optimistic that this will develop into an influential enough movement to provoke radical change . |
| 16 | The Ayrshire Yeomanry had experienced an active enough war after all . |
| 17 | Jacqui was an attractive enough bit of stuff , but there were hundreds more like her and why should he stick to one ? |