Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a meeting with Energy Minister Tim Eggar , Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards said he was convinced it was now up to the colliery management to present a strong enough case for the pit to be taken off the Government hit-list . |
| 2 | There is , of course , a solid enough basis for such an image in the Gospels themselves . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's very different only qualifying for 30 minutes and not for an hour . |
| 4 | In any case , the police did not offer a high enough salary for any but the most inexperienced official . |
| 5 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 6 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 7 | It was a vague enough concept for the left-liberals to unite around , and became a kind of surrogate nationalism . |
| 8 | Which is a hard enough life for any man , and my old friend has retired now . |
| 9 | An estimate of how well the non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is conserved has been made by applying an exact fivefold rotation for a given atom and determining the r.m.s.d. from the observed positions . |
| 10 | The captaincy would sell for fifteen hundred pounds which was a good enough fortune for any young man contemplating marriage , but a majority would fetch two thousand six hundred pounds , and so d'Alembord , with some misgivings , but reassured by the prospects of a fine marriage portion , had agreed to Ford 's request . |
| 11 | We disposed of the big fish first , not even so without difficulty ; for while some , like Ceylon and Jamaica , were islands , which was a good enough demarcation for rough and ready purposes , others , like the Indians or Nigerians , were not so unmistakable and quarrelled violently over who they were . |
| 12 | I mean realize that would be a very bad analogy with women , but nevertheless I think just the analogy on numbers is not a good enough argument for women . |
| 13 | People now realise that DOS is not a good enough basis for future systems , he said . |
| 14 | it 's not like a good enough reason for him to call the characters these names , like if they do n't have that much significance . |
| 15 | The Lewis and Clark expedition was able to provide powder and lead for the Nez Perce , a persuasive enough argument for their friendly relations with the white man . |
| 16 | SINGER Melanie O'Reilly drew a standing-room only attendance for the last of the inaugural season of Assembly Direct 's ‘ The Jazz Club ’ promotions . |
| 17 | Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organizations in the town , and that creates a sort of area of communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's , say , five or six times as big . |
| 18 | Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organisations in the town , and that creates a sort of an area of erm communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's say five or six times as big . |
| 19 | ‘ A common enough fate for a penniless immigrant in those days . ’ |
| 20 | That was a big enough clue for Neil . |
| 21 | The trick in designing a successful patent system is to provide a big enough incentive for invention , but not such a large and long-lived cushion that the benefits of competition are suppressed for ever . |
| 22 | And you know I think if we can , that 's a big enough task for us to take on here . |
| 23 | Not a big enough allocation for something like this , that 's the trouble . ’ |
| 24 | The gauge is a difficult enough tool for a boy to use in his right hand , let alone the left ! |
| 25 | The Labour left , meanwhile , did not manage to mount a convincing enough case for its ‘ alternative strategy ’ ( the far left had no half-way credible strategy to propose ) , while the trade union movement was not united in pushing for any positive quid pro quo in exchange for wage restraint , having rejected the Bullock proposals for Industrial Democracy , but was increasingly tugging for a return to ‘ free collective bargaining ’ . |
| 26 | This month sees the birth of a new bi-monthly publication for the hotel and catering industry ; one which more adequately reflects the new image of the HCIMA . |