Example sentences of "enough [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |
| 2 | By contrast , increased population counts will enable multiple retailers to identify towns which , for the first time , are large enough to sustain a branch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Small enough to swim under and around , large enough to support a man , and big enough to teach all of us a lesson . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Just enough to see a nose and one eye . |
| 11 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 12 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 13 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 14 | But what could be strong enough to drive a man from his homeland , to face terrible dangers in the skies ? |
| 15 | Enough to drive a saint round the bend . |
| 16 | At first it seemed big enough to drive a train through . |
| 17 | In the process of satisfying the demands of the flood of participants , the inquiry 's photocopiers had dealt with over fifteen million sheets of paper , enough to demolish a forest of 1,000 trees . |
| 18 | A student has to be versatile enough to evade an attack by stepping , hopping or jumping to the side , while slipping into another more advantageous position in order to counter-strike . |
| 19 | Roman had clearly primed his housekeeper well in advance , Caroline reflected , finding herself whisked off through grandiose high-ceilinged passageways , up a curving staircase wide enough to accommodate a coach and four , and into a room large enough to hold a full-scale ball . |
| 20 | ‘ Since I was old enough to carry a money-bag , I 've trudged round the streets , knocking on every door of every property you own … aye , and sometimes I 've had a fist in my face for the trouble , but never once have I let you down . |
| 21 | A Buckingham Palace spokesman said he would be well enough to attend a promenade concert at London 's Royal Albert Hall tonight — and is expected to make a full recovery in seven to 10 days . |
| 22 | How many of us have felt interested enough to attend a Building Society A.G.M. provided we are receiving the interest on our deposits we think we are entitled to ? |
| 23 | Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen . |
| 24 | Not until after Easter was King Henry well enough to attend a conference , but even then nothing was achieved . |
| 25 | He even felt strong enough to issue a threat . |
| 26 | Internal interpretation was orthodox ; but the first principles were radical enough to assure a development beyond the conventions of civil law . |
| 27 | The 8 cameras are powerful enough to perform a variety of surveillance tasks . |
| 28 | Here he obviously considered the pharmaceutical value of this plant important enough to include an illustration , and he felt the economic significance of Rubia tinctorum , madder , warranted an engraving by John Sebastian Miller , from Hortus Cliffortianus . |
| 29 | Undaunted , one of the Marines took it upon himself to pop out from hiding just long enough to hurl a grenade at the gun position . |
| 30 | About a month later , he said to me that he was compelled to agree that the first dinner had not been a success ( his words ) , and would I be kind enough to arrange a second ? |