Example sentences of "enough [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 For a convincing construction of a normal form it is not enough merely to list a few types of equivalence that can arise and show how to deal with them .
2 Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business .
3 For most established museums and picture-galleries , simple representation does not suffice : it 's not enough just to have a very good Raphael in the collection ; it 's how many Raphaels you have .
4 It is not enough just to have a common foreign policy .
5 In many cases when creating this effect , it is not enough just to tie a bow in a piece of ribbon , and you may have to actually create a bow from a piece of material in order to produce the right effect .
6 George was civil servant enough not to ask a simple question if a fancy one would do .
7 It 's bad enough not to have a honeymoon . ’
8 They have all introduced a discount scheme to enable those unfortunate enough not to have a job not to have a proper job the same access to all these facilities as those in work .
9 He hoped she would be civilized enough not to make a scene .
10 Should you be unfortunate enough not to find a solution by this means , then you may have lost the alignment of the disk read/write heads .
11 Not , I admit , the kind of explosives you have down there but we know enough not to trigger a bomb by accident . ’
12 The Chancellor was quick to welcome the signs of recovery and repeat his view that he has cut interest rates far enough already to ensure a recovery .
13 Adult men , especially those old enough still to have a memory , however faint , of 1848 , were the characteristic insurrectionaries of 1871 .
14 But demonstration is rarely enough both to sell a product and to establish a brand .
15 All in all , there is not enough here to found a conclusion that the debtor has an arguable counterclaim for damages for negligence .
16 These points are not laboured but there is enough here to suggest a few topics to which the inexperienced paddler should devote further thought and reading .
17 I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week .
18 Often it 's enough simply to suggest a division — perhaps by using a screen , or even a row of tall , leafy plants .
19 However , one suspects that the transition is illusory since the formidable constraints to translating techniques into widely-adopted practice only become fully apparent when the project is big enough potentially to have a significant impact .
20 She was tired enough then to feel a certain caustic amusement that John 's infidelity to the firm touched her so much more on the raw than his infidelity to her .
21 Fresh tap water is usually heavily treated with chemicals and often chlorinated strongly enough actually to have a chemical smell .
22 It would be the cover , if we were clever enough never to push a crate and then decide to push it straight back to where it was before .
23 My granddad , who smoked like a chimney and lived to 97 , was lucky enough never to encounter a promoter .
24 I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said .
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