Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sphagnum bogs and peat mires are missing ; occasionally the ground is wet enough to support moss mires , involving ahumic soils and an overgrowth of mosses Orthothecium chryseum , or Campylium and Bryum spp. forming protoranker mats on top . |
| 32 | Under the heated steel rings and leather , his shirt was wet enough to wring water out of , and his skin shivered with cold . |
| 33 | It was lively enough to marry Bellow to a ‘ stylish Radcliffe graduate ’ of whom Roth had been ‘ enamoured ’ — if we are to assume that The Facts has not imagined the connection . |
| 34 | The second alternative poses a serious problem , however , insofar as it leads to the further question , how could such Marxism not be true — in the sense of how could History , in the objective processes on which a scientific Marxism places so much faith , be undialectical enough to produce Stalinism from the October Revolution ? |
| 35 | He was old enough to remember coffee that did not have a collection of bubbles on top . |
| 36 | Those old enough to remember paraffin lights will be pleased to see they are making a comeback . |
| 37 | She was able to conceal her restlessness , the pacing about , her dream of a different beginning to a new life , her impatience with the old shapes that she had used for too long ; she was not young and was old enough to foresee failure . |
| 38 | Mr Cocks also criticised judges for making uninformed pronouncements about whether child witnesses were old enough to give evidence . |
| 39 | I KNOW that my mother , who is 36 , should be old enough to take care of herself , but sometimes I feel I 'm older and wiser , at 16 , than she is . |
| 40 | Old enough to take care of himself , while she had been eight years old . |
| 41 | Their only joy came from Moira , who was just old enough to appreciate Christmas , and from the visits of Bridie 's children and Theresa 's two little ones . |
| 42 | He had wondered as he spoke whether Timmy was old enough to eat meat . |
| 43 | " In our new austerity , I am old enough to have money . " |
| 44 | you 're seventeen years old , if you 're old enough to have sex surely you 're old enough to you know , think about it in a mature way . |
| 45 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 46 | ‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years . |
| 47 | She 's just old enough to have dignity . ’ |
| 48 | Here , one transfer price ( usually representing cumulative variable costs ) is charged to the buying division , while another ( which will be high enough to allow profit ) is credited to the selling division . |
| 49 | There may be occasions when our guesstimate is high enough to give concern that the potential customer would be unable to pay . |
| 50 | But until very recently systems were generally aimed at the top end of the market , and the cost was high enough to make acquisition a major undertaking . |
| 51 | Administration officials said that to achieve that goal , the planes would fly at night and high enough to avoid danger of being shot down and would have no combat escorts . |
| 52 | This is high enough to permit observation if the diurnal variation . |
| 53 | Is Samson 's strength rating high enough to withstand injury ? |
| 54 | With grants available to all who could gain entry to university or polytechnic , initial teaching training courses came to be filled , in part , with young people whose ‘ A ’ level grades were not high enough to gain entrance on conventional university course . |
| 55 | Put crudely , state intervention in contemporary urban Britain ( and America ) is justifiable only to facilitate market led growth . |
| 56 | It will have a similar connotation when people discover what drops through their letter boxes if they are foolish enough to vote Conservative at the next general election . |
| 57 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 58 | ‘ It is n't foolish enough to attempt escape . |
| 59 | Should anyone be foolish enough to don space armour and climb through the airlock , nothing whatever would be strictly visible — save for what had already come from the ordinary universe . |
| 60 | A few moments of complete mental instability when you were unscrupulous enough to take advantage of me . |