Example sentences of "[adj] enough to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garlic cloves are cooked in their skins so they become soft enough to purée into a delicious sauce |
| 2 | There was no sign of either Ferdinando or Annunciata in the kitchen so she was bold enough to tip-toe towards the drawing room where she hesitated again and peered round the door . |
| 3 | Older surveys such as those by Mauriel and Anthony ( 1966 ) , Tomkins ( 1973 ) , and Reece and Cool ( 1978 ) , and more recent studies such as those of Pike ( 1983 ) , Scapens and Sale ( 1985 ) and Cornwell ( 1987 ) , do not get close enough to behaviour in specific contexts to reveal whether companies are suffering from a misuse of ROI . |
| 4 | For the latter lot , only ‘ The Hair Pillow ’ , illuminated by singer Craig Wedren 's glorious , bizarre falsetto , sticks close enough to convention to be more a pleasure than an endurance test . |
| 5 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 6 | At the end of April , however , it was near enough to completion for Nietzsche , at last , to send the first part of the manuscript to a publisher , Engelmann , in Leipzig . |