Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping in touch with this flow , as well as the hundred-odd pages of daily transcript , was a job practicable only for the zealots like Brian Rome or the massed ranks of the CEGB staff . |
| 2 | An order came out from the Chief Constable : ‘ The following inspectors ( there were three of them — I was one ) and sergeants and men will parade at such-and-such a yard at Birkenhead at eleven o'clock for the launching of the Ark Royal . |
| 3 | ‘ Is n't that only for the mentally handicapped ? ’ asked Nina curiously . |
| 4 | It 's worth hiring a heavyduty cutting jig if you have a lot of quarries to cut ; ordinary cutters are n't strong enough for the job . |
| 5 | It is difficult to find words strong enough for the sensation which came over me ; Milton 's ‘ enormous bliss ’ of Eden ( giving the full , ancient meaning to ‘ enormous ’ ) comes somewhere near it . |
| 6 | It is equally important to ensure that all joints and connections between the wires , uprights , and anchorages are properly made and strong enough for the job ( see Figure 13 ) . |
| 7 | Just as the idea of a voyage was more satisfying than the trip itself for the poet Baudelaire , the Romantic tradition in France is strong enough for the idea of a well thought-out plan to be more important than its execution . |
| 8 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 9 | The case is now strong enough for the weight of interest to shift to the other dimension of interpretation . |
| 10 | The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’ |
| 11 | Is that enough for the time being ? — IM |
| 12 | However , the we have recently had to incur extra expenditure because the road that were put in looking at one hundred er er were found to be too high especially for the services and er place er committee which er throughout that it was very difficult but apparatus you know moving fire . |
| 13 | Moxon and Kellett ( 87 ) , rattled up 203 together for the first wicket after Yorkshire had been put in to bat . |
| 14 | The problem was to find exports with which to pay for it ; English woollens and iron products were not luxurious enough for the ruling class in India and were far too expensive for the vast majority of the population . |
| 15 | Now all of that is sensible enough for the holiday-maker taking his or her annual two weeks in the sun , but like many packages , there are strings attached . |
| 16 | In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps . |
| 17 | A worried Bank of England used the weekend to negotiate for the Portuguese currency to start at a higher level than that planned on Friday , but it clearly was not high enough for the pound . |
| 18 | Tunnels and bridges must be high enough for the train to go under . |
| 19 | The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads . |
| 20 | If the quality is n't high enough for the final product the flexibility gained by using industry standard coding or a page description language such as PostScript means the same file can be passed to a professional typesetting system without the need for re-typing . |
| 21 | This is why thresholds are needed : when cat is presented , numerous logogens will be excited , but in every case the excitation will not be high enough for the threshold level to be reached — except for the logogen for cat , which will receive so much evidence that its threshold will be reached . |
| 22 | Draft Companies House guidance for foreign companies operating in the UK may not be clear enough for the companies to be sure they are acting within the law , according to the Institute . |
| 23 | Provided it is read sensibly ( see the section " Understanding the Bible " ) , it is clear enough for the simplest Christian to live by , as well as being profound enough to exercise the mind of the brightest scholar for a lifetime . |
| 24 | True , Emily 's mother was his own mother 's sister , but his sole contact with her was a book token every Christmas ; a token never quite generous enough for the book he wanted . |
| 25 | Our understanding of each other is adequate enough for the small change of moral discourse , leaving us in no doubt of how most people feel about being murdered , robbed , raped or cheated , but the more sensitive the valuation the less confidently it can be made . |
| 26 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 27 | Dr Paisley questioned whether Mr Major is brave enough for the job . |
| 28 | Leaving this aside for the present , however , was the service development activity effective , and cost effective ? |
| 29 | Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows : |
| 30 | As described in the Appendix , we have done this both for the corporate business sector as a whole and for the crucial , and sensitive , manufacturing sector . |