Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sorry immediately for the outburst . |
| 2 | She could then either wait for the ferry , which was sporadic , or go back up to the head of the estuary and up to where the river was narrow enough for a bridge . |
| 3 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 4 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
| 5 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 6 | The Prudential appealed , contending that there were two contracts and that stamp duty was payable only for the land and the works completed on 18 October 1989 . |
| 7 | Mitch was thoughtful too for a moment and then he asked , ‘ Why did n't you tell him you spoke Spanish ? ’ |
| 8 | When it was late enough for the embassy to be fully staffed , Agnes called to say she probably would n't be in , but could perhaps be contacted at the motel number . |
| 9 | High Lane 's 159 all out was good enough for a draw against Woodford who reached 136 -8 . |
| 10 | But an Auxetophone was ; and although the resulting records had a very poor frequency range , it was good enough for the voice of the quail . |
| 11 | ‘ You bitch ! ’ he whispered as the car drew up in front of the country house hotel that her father had decided was good enough for the reception to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter to the reigning world champion . |
| 12 | ‘ If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul/Disraeli it 's good enough for me ’ at one end . |
| 13 | As such he was responsible both for the retirement of Lord George Bentinck [ q.v. ] from its leadership in 1847 , after his vote for Jewish emancipation , and for the resumption of the title Conservative for his party in 1848 . |
| 14 | Today she was hungry only for the house . |
| 15 | This treatment was of no use for aeroplanes because it could only be used when the component was small enough for the formalin to penetrate . |
| 16 | Yet people acted as though there was such a thing and this illusion was essential both for the working of capitalism and for the acceptability of the exploitation on which capitalism was based . |
| 17 | In the midst of all this young life it was fortunate that the house was roomy enough for the professor still to get enough quiet and space to write . |
| 18 | On both the family and the part-time farm it was difficult often for the husband to set aside time to go to all the training courses he would like to attend . |
| 19 | The devastation in the city 's Lake Zone , about 400 kilometres from the epicentre , was surprising even for a quake of 8.1 magnitude . |
| 20 | X died in March , but it was close enough for the connection that Eliot wrote of in The Waste Land : |
| 21 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |