Example sentences of "[noun sg] enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there milk enough or a little too much in his tea ? |
| 2 | He found the wording offensive enough , but when he was later informed that the composition was that of a witch his anger boiled over . |
| 3 | One can transmit impressions such as disapproval , disgust , anger , irritation , pleasure , love and understanding by facial gesture , indeed its effectiveness is recognised in colloquial expressions such as ‘ a look enough to kill ’ or ‘ a sour look ’ . |
| 4 | They 're planning to turn their ground into an all-seater stadium when they can find a three-piece cheap suite enough — the only way they 'll raise the money is to turn their pitch over to growing cabbages and start a fruit-and-veg. stall on Birmingham market selling rotten fruit ! |
| 5 | He rejects the idea that industry ought to keep workers on simply to fulfil a responsibility for maintaining full employment and he also argues that it will be impossible to increase the tax base enough to create employment in labour-intensive services such as health and education . |
| 6 | But is description enough ? |
| 7 | In reality the argument is all about whether the government has increased the budget enough . |
| 8 | Now — who hates your son-in-law enough to kill off his wife and kids ? ’ |
| 9 | Anyone else would have had tact enough to at least dress it up a little , she thought wryly . |
| 10 | So what I 'm going to ask effectively that when we are talking about the Greater York element of the housing land allocation we concentrate on the question of is the level of provision enough ? |
| 11 | And a large part of my time in Uganda was spent trying to market new species , taking on a wider range of species , and a more intensive utilisation , so that you 've opened up your canopy enough to encourage the regeneration of the valuable species . |
| 12 | Yes , where he was going now he could at least appear as himself ; the face was avowal enough , his dress should match the face . |
| 13 | There would be change enough from her £5,000 after the funeral expenses had been paid , and I felt a little better after that . |
| 14 | ‘ McIniff was blackguard enough to do that but you 'd think that at least he 'd be ashamed to tell it . ’ |
| 15 | Ruth was payment enough . |
| 16 | Though the books were sound , her apprehension clear , the meeting joyful , could that possibly be experience enough ? |
| 17 | Ferdinando 's was kind enough . |
| 18 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |
| 19 | Marcus has been kind enough to come here . |
| 20 | So I suppose I shall have to rely for my silver lining upon Carrie Schlegel of Capistrano Beach , California , who was kind enough to write to this magazine to say that I was God . |
| 21 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
| 22 | If friends are foolhardy but kind enough to let you loose in their gardens , it is a very nice idea to make them a small picture from some of the flowers you have gathered and subsequently pressed . |
| 23 | The chap who had been kind enough to get me my pint said , ‘ I was only a young chap at the time but I remember him well . |
| 24 | Friends kind enough to offer to do the ironing or a bit of hoovering could be alarmed by cries of , ‘ No , no ! |
| 25 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 26 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 27 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 28 | A local dental surgeon , Mr. Williams , was kind enough to attend at Dr. Prior 's request and he administered the gas gratuitously . |
| 29 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 30 | You know , as she had no family or friends , he was kind enough to pay for her to go to school , and found her a job here with your uncle . |