Example sentences of "[adj] enough to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thirty he had looked would seem old enough to a child of eleven . |
| 2 | An antagonist is a substance which is similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors , but is not similar enough to fit perfectly and change the cell 's membrane potential , thereby blocking the receptor . |
| 3 | Lord Bellomont 's position as Governor in New York , Massachusetts , and New Hampshire , and military commander in Connecticut , Rhode Island , and New Jersey was similar enough to the position held by the Governor of the Dominion of New England to show that unification was not just an eccentric idea launched by James II . |
| 4 | Sure enough to the left of the backbone , somewhere about my nipple there was a large round blob . |
| 5 | A Formula 1-style wing is obviously part of the package — it 's important enough to the prototype 's aerodynamics for it not to be excluded from its testing programme . |
| 6 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 7 | This lack of consensus on the way semantically and grammatically related sentences should be characterized is itself troublesome enough to a sociolinguist seeking guidance from syntactic theory ; but to make things even more difficult , the very notion of semantic equivalence is a disputed one . |
| 8 | Soon one lioness is close enough to a zebra to attack . |
| 9 | He was sitting directly above the cellar door , close enough to the kitchen door to hear their angry words . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't seem to get close enough to the board to get my foot on . ’ |
| 11 | This not only supplies more power , but also enables you to get close enough to the board to put your foot on it . |
| 12 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 13 | As soon as he was close enough to the head of the ladder to use it as a support , he stood up . |
| 14 | And in build , and in age , yes , striding along to get out of the rain the sooner , he might well be close enough to the shape Aldhelm would present , to an assassin waiting . |
| 15 | It was close enough to the cottage for her to take an early morning dip or a quick swim before dinner . |
| 16 | As they lay on the floor , he went at Pascoe with knees and elbows , everything uncoordinated , getting a blow in to the cheekbone and then a knee close enough to the groin to make Pascoe panic . |
| 17 | Guests who were not already close enough to the bar to reach for fresh glasses of wine edged nearer . |
| 18 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 19 | They alerted Liverpool Coastguard but their amphibious craft , a DUKW , was unable to get close enough to the vessel so the town 's own lifeboat was launched . |
| 20 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 21 | ‘ See , we 've found a few seeps of underground water that 's close enough to the surface for things to grow . |
| 22 | He should be able to sit close enough to the table to rest his hemiplegic arm comfortably on it . |
| 23 | Julian took her companion by the hand , and wormed her way round elbows and between shoulders as far down the street as she could , drawing Brother John after her ; but before she was close enough to the gatehouse to see what was happening there she was brought to a halt , and could move no farther . |
| 24 | However , some people like to mix their own concrete ; others do so on financial grounds , while a few feel that the lorry can not get close enough to the site to make the upheaval that it inevitably causes worthwhile . |
| 25 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose that 's close enough to the truth . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We needed it to dry off , but now ‘ t is dangerous if we 're near enough to a castle for the smoke to be noticed . |
| 28 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 29 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 30 | A period of day-hospital care may also be useful , if the patient 's home is near enough to the hospital for it to be practical . |