Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement . |
| 2 | Nearly high enough for an army to cross , or a siege-tower . |
| 3 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 4 | You should have worn a coat over that dress — the night 's not warm enough for an outfit like that . ’ |
| 5 | Day Two : Arrival at Hook of Holland at 7 a.m. for an onward rail journey to Hilversum ( via Amsterdam ) where the arrival at your hotel is approximately 10.30 a.m. collect your bicycle and take a tour of the town to get acquainted with the cycle and the special cyclist paths . |
| 6 | On May 20 the government deployed 630 companies of paramilitary troops — the largest ever for an election — to supplement security arrangements . |
| 7 | In 1915 it had been widened to seven yards , just large enough for an up- and down-column of trucks . |
| 8 | His eyes were hard again for an instant . |
| 9 | He is famous mainly for An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1690 ) and his Two Treatises of Government ( 1690 ) . |
| 10 | As far as local democracy was concerned , no evidence was clearly discernible either for an improvement or for a deterioration . |
| 11 | It contains two enormous hand-knitted cardigans big enough for an orang-utan , and a pair of woollen tights that Pavarotti could have worn . |
| 12 | It was just big enough for an adult to pass through on all fours . |
| 13 | The easiest way into a flat with aluminium frame windows is to use the little flap window at the top — the ventilator , only big enough for an organ grinder 's monkey , but easily opened with a knife , slipped underneath to prise up the catch . |
| 14 | It is difficult enough for an individual to be consistent , let alone a society . |
| 15 | It is rare indeed for an executive to design and state a mixed message and then ask , ‘ Do you find my message inconsistent and ambiguous ? ’ |
| 16 | Easy Rider took $45 million worldwide for an outlay of less than $400,000 and there are few comparable profit-to-cost examples in the history of Hollywood . |
| 17 | There are , for instance , several conflicting claims concerning the function of the Japanese suffix -wa : some suggest that it is an obligatory marker of topic ( this claim is implicit in Li , 1976 : 465 ) ; others suggest that it marks given information ( see 5.1.2. below for an explanation of given vs new information ) . |
| 18 | It is easy to see that there is potential here for an undermining of Samuel . |