Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] enough [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was made of a strong enough fibre to cope with ideas to which she had already become accustomed , like murder and rape ; it was novelty that she found hard to accept . |
| 2 | That ‘ democracy ’ was probably an oligarchy of a narrow enough type . |
| 3 | The incident is a more extreme example of a common enough practice in the development of a new popular style for royalty . |
| 4 | But the analysis of the composition of a big enough sample should enable a comparison to be made between different hoards and the determination of a ‘ typical ’ currency hoard whose contents will most likely represent coins drawn from circulation . |
| 5 | George concluded the evening — and successfully reclaimed his right to be seen as a sober enough man — by reciting ‘ The Bashful Wooer ’ from the works of one he announced as ‘ the greatest poet of Cumberland and Westmorland , a man living among us today , our own Robbie Burns — Robert Anderson of Carlisle … ’ |
| 6 | Suzi Hoflin came in with two of her pupils and put Ingrid through a reasonable enough gypsy dance routine . |
| 7 | The other is connected essentially or actually in parallel with the load through a large enough resistance R to swamp the inductive reactance , also as indicated in figure 7.2(b) . |
| 8 | But we could n't think of many states with a strong enough identity to have a symposium about . |
| 9 | Overall , though , most individuals survive with a good enough attachment pattern established in early life , and from then on attachments and separations come and go as the span of life develops . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 11 | We had no friends in Manchester with a large enough house . |
| 12 | What the DECies say they have is a 150MHz chip with a large enough heat sink ( palm-sized ) that it does n't need a fan to dissipate Alpha 's heat . |
| 13 | A sequence of mild winters with low deer mortality and declining competition from sheep have contributed to this increase , but the main cause is the consistent failure of many estates to balance the number of stags shot with a large enough cull of hinds — a labour-intensive process with small returns from the sale of venison . |
| 14 | Tarbes is a busy , professional plant with a big enough workload to enable it to adopt modern manufacturing techniques . |
| 15 | ‘ Not with a big enough wage , that was the problem . |
| 16 | Alas , there is little reason to be optimistic that this will develop into an influential enough movement to provoke radical change . |
| 17 | Edward 's hopes of the crown had vanished before the gates of Rheims , but he was still in a strong enough position , with Ring John as his prisoner , to insist on a final solution to the problem of Aquitaine . |
| 18 | Now if you 've planted a seed or if you have n't planted a seed then are we in a strong enough position there to ask about the people we dis we discussed on completion of the er first appointment ? |
| 19 | But , although she smiled briefly at Folly in a friendly enough way , she seemed too distracted to wait for an answer , and started to usher them inside . |
| 20 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 21 | As well as Sunday 's League match , there is an Italian Cup tie the following Wednesday for Gazza to prove he 's in a good enough condition to make some contribution against Norway . |
| 22 | It said all that needed to be said in a clear enough manner . |
| 23 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 24 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 25 | The advantage of running a competition is that it should be cost effective if the cost of the prizes is spread over a large enough number of entrants . |
| 26 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 27 | It is this feature which , more than anything else , makes the Aircoupe safe , being impossible to stall , nor can it be spun : you simply can not get the angle of attack to a high enough value . |
| 28 | The gains for the labour movement in the shipyards , at the power stations and on the streets were not therefore translated into electoral support for the Labour Party , on a broad enough basis . |
| 29 | Did the Unit never in fact settle on a simple enough statement of its function to entrust to journalists ? |
| 30 | No the only firm that does hand weaving and hand dyeing on on a big enough scale is in West Wales in the middle of a place called . |