Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some popular sentiment may go Mr Hussein 's way , both regimes are efficiently repressive enough to keep public opinion buttoned up . |
| 2 | Layers of rock that are porous and permeable enough to store water and let it flow through them easily are called aquifers . |
| 3 | ‘ We have to be stable enough to have product liability insurance before we can enter the US market . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know when this six months idea came in but it 's little enough to show respect for the one that 's gone . ’ |
| 5 | It would have to be a fast one , and expensive — offhand , Rincewind could n't think of any horse-dealer he knew who was rich enough to give change out of almost a whole ounce of gold . |
| 6 | In most casings this makes it pretty awkward to get at , but the Sigma 's casing is spacious enough to allow access to these vital sockets . |
| 7 | It follows also that it is not credit-broking merely to advertise credit facilities or even carry application forms . |
| 8 | Similarly it has been suggested that a weak hydrogen bond , which is strong enough to induce miscibility can form between the carbonyl unit of poly ( methyl methacrylate ) and the α-hydrogen of poly ( vinyl chloride ) ( example 3 where ) . |
| 9 | Whether any of the grudges was strong enough to justify murder was another consideration he put on one side for the time being . |
| 10 | The castle did not prove strong enough to resist attack by a Norse raiding force in 1230 . |
| 11 | They offered the essentially optimistic message that nature was strong enough to resist destruction by human agencies — the climax could easily be restored if humankind chose to set aside areas for conservation . |
| 12 | When Peron was overthrown , these organisations were strong enough to resist opposition . |
| 13 | The British defence chiefs also felt able to work on the assumption that the USSR would not feel strong enough to risk war for several more years . |
| 14 | In the sixth century its ancient Christian traditions were strong enough to sustain resistance to Justinian 's attempts to dictate doctrine to the church . |
| 15 | The analysis of human motives is , of course , a precarious undertaking ; but some of the connections made in the past between scientific and religious ideals were strong enough to bear reconstruction in such terms . |
| 16 | The lingering conventional truths — that the Czech economy would be strong enough to cushion dissent , that the opposition does not have a sufficiently coherent voice — already look thin . |
| 17 | The lingering conventional truths — that the Czech economy would be strong enough to cushion dissent , that the opposition does not have a sufficiently coherent voice — already look thin . |
| 18 | There were larger numbers of Whig and Tories who found the pull of Court strong enough to override party loyalty . |
| 19 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 20 | Although it missed the clarity of the session version , it was still strong enough to make number one in the independent charts and NME picked it as its single of the week . |
| 21 | The support he found amongst gentry and townsmen in eastern Sussex was not yet strong enough to guarantee victory . |
| 22 | Dot was pleased when the Children 's Officer called at the basement and said she was strong enough to start school . |
| 23 | In this case the materials which are used must be strong enough to withstand placement of the crown by the dentist and the subsequent stresses created during eating . |
| 24 | This level was by no means low enough to cause scurvy as Alan was still eating fruit and vegetables , though less than before . |
| 25 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 26 | It was not possible suddenly to change direction , yet the damage being done to education was obvious as campuses sometimes resembled market-places rather than institutions of higher learning . |
| 27 | It was not possible merely to apply management skills and manuals across different sorts of business . |
| 28 | You may find yourself writing detailed advertisements for an insurance company specific enough to find favour with their actuaries , or inventing a reason for people to buy a particular chocolate bar . |
| 29 | Low-pass filter is steep enough to allow sound sample rate of twice signal frequency , with attenuation of better than 50dB at 20kHz . |
| 30 | It must be dense enough to support the plant , porous enough to hold water , and open enough for air to diffuse through it to provide oxygen . |