Example sentences of "were [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 2 | As though Bigwig 's angry impatience , Pipkin 's terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with , the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind . |
| 3 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 4 | as if the casualties being inflicted on members of the armed forces of both parties , not to speak of the crews of the largely neutral shipping involved , were not enough to satisfy the appetite of some mythical god of war , further carnage was developing , mainly in the latter half of the war , among the civilian populations of both countries . |
| 5 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 6 | Darwin introduced new lines of evidence , but these were not enough to convince everyone of the superiority of his particular explanation , and the general idea of evolution succeeded because it could be exploited by powerful interest groups acting within science . |
| 7 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 8 | A favourable monsoon season and a record harvest in 1988-89 of 172,000,000 tonnes of food grain were not enough to prevent the need to continue to import rice and wheat in order to maintain distribution and to provide food for the country 's growing population ; however , the improvement in the agricultural sector did contribute to a major increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , of 9 per cent in real terms in 1988-89 , helped by increases in industrial and manufacturing production . |
| 9 | as if the jungle and the heat and the blasted " yellows " were not enough to endure in the godforsaken tropics ! |
| 10 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
| 11 | In the result , the proceeds from that sale were not enough to discharge the first mortgage , let alone the subsequent ones . |
| 12 | But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained . |
| 13 | Three days were usually enough to secure a signed confession . |
| 14 | We had fewer books and , although one unfortunate batch was dominated by Barbara Cartland 's idiotic romances and an informative , though only distantly interesting , tome on breast feeding , there were still enough to keep us occupied . |
| 15 | But there still were n't enough to meet the enormous demand . |
| 16 | Greek or Trojan ancestors were quite enough to support their claims to power . |
| 17 | The sparkle of spray , the glassy mist hanging over the water were pretty enough to taste on the tongue . |
| 18 | There was an immature moustache above lips that were pretty enough to belong to a girl . |
| 19 | He said the Sundial was a very pleasant environment but unfortunately takings were barely enough to cover the electricity bill . |
| 20 | There were never enough to go around , especially on the house where I was , where there were two other girls on the works and four girls on the gardens all coming in filthy dirty and wanting a bath . |
| 21 | But statistics by themselves were never enough to satisfy the inquiring mind of a man who says : ‘ The measure of greatness in a cricketer is nothing to do with numbers , but is in the occasions which watchers remember with joy — think of McCabe and his three extraordinary innings . ’ |