Example sentences of "[adj] enough [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh right , what saying ? , you 're not brainy enough to go to college |
| 2 | The novel argues in cold , unremitting fidelity to its own thesis that in life the evil may in the end go unpunished and live happily ever after ; that the truly self-sufficient being , if he anywhere existed , would be ultimately inviolable , fearing neither reproach nor self-reproach ; and that those who are strong enough to live without sympathy are forever beyond the reach of compassion or revenge . |
| 3 | Though everyone seemed to despise Nigel , Charles had n't met anyone whose feeling seemed strong enough to amount to hatred . |
| 4 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 5 | We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school . |
| 6 | When his own son was old enough to go to school , Alexia took up painting , working her way away from representational landscapes into suggestive abstracts based on the British countryside . |
| 7 | By the time you were four and old enough to go to school you were practised at enticing the dogs in to be fed , undetected . |
| 8 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 9 | The rate has been raised quite high enough to deal with overheating in the domestic economy . |
| 10 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 11 | This is easy enough to use in theory and works effectively . |
| 12 | They form a rough diamond shape , and are in the same × 12 field , so that they are easy enough to recognize in spite of their dimness . |
| 13 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 14 | This is simple enough to test by observation . |
| 15 | Those trapped in the crush at Hillsborough who were fortunate enough to escape without injury have no claim in respect of the distress they suffered in what must have been a truly terrifying experience . |
| 16 | It is hard enough to cope on invalidity benefits at the moment and any cuts or taxes will make life very difficult . |
| 17 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for a period of more than 14 consecutive days , then your monthly Home Improvement Loan repayments will be made for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 18 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for any period of more than 14 consecutive days , then the cover will pay your monthly loan repayments for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 19 | He 'll give the Colonel every chance to prove that he 's fit enough to return to work . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's up to his doctor to decide if he 'll be fit enough to return to work . |
| 21 | I was told I would n't be fit enough to go to college . |
| 22 | If you 're lucky enough to live at home , or you have your own room in college or good lodgings , you may prefer to study there ( see also Chapter 2 on accommodation ) . |
| 23 | Some deliberate fixed capacitance is incorporated in parallel with R 1 , firstly to make the performance sufficiently independent of connections to the output and , secondly , to render the value of C 2 that satisfies equation ( 8.3 ) large enough to implement in practice , especially when the attenuation is large so that and . |
| 24 | The best chance of acclimatization occurs with acquisitions of about 2″ in length , which are small enough to adapt to new foods and large enough to survive in tank conditions . |
| 25 | It is clear that if a method of examining use is to be devised which does not lean entirely upon the librarian 's judgement , that method must be sophisticated enough to take into account the many variable factors . |
| 26 | By March he was out again , and back at his office in Faber and Faber , although he was prudent enough to retire to bed early in the evening : with a complaint which had no organic cause , he could not be certain that he had been cured " . |
| 27 | When she was broke , she had been stupid enough to plead for credit . |
| 28 | Do you think he 'll be well enough to go to school ? |
| 29 | Good enough to eat of course , and the performances , all culled from existing digital and analogue Sony ( née CBS ) masters , deserve a blanket rating , with one or two highlights along the way . |
| 30 | In none of these cases could the exposure be classified as substantial enough to call into question the validity of the control schools . |