Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] enough [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , the FRG and the USA the proportions varied between 6 and 10 per cent , which was not enough to make a significant difference . |
| 2 | We were kept in on a strict curfew and given meagre amounts of pocket money each week , which was just enough to buy food and travel to the DHSS office . |
| 3 | Number 145 — freshly baked bread , the smell of which was almost enough to draw one inside . |
| 4 | There were never enough to go around , especially on the house where I was , where there were two other girls on the works and four girls on the gardens all coming in filthy dirty and wanting a bath . |
| 5 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 6 | We had fewer books and , although one unfortunate batch was dominated by Barbara Cartland 's idiotic romances and an informative , though only distantly interesting , tome on breast feeding , there were still enough to keep us occupied . |
| 7 | There was already enough cover for a large number of sepoys to approach very close to the enclave without being detected . |
| 8 | Some bastard cheated , they say there was not enough binding put around the joins , again the pipe leaks . |
| 9 | But there was not enough sting in the Mexican 's punches to ever trouble him . |
| 10 | When the Junto leader , the Earl of Sunderland , suggested that some be settled in Canterbury , the mayor refused point blank , arguing that as a result of the recession in the silk-weaving and wool-carding trades , there was not enough work to employ the poor families already living in the city . |
| 11 | An extra £3,500 had to be transferred from the leisure services central budget because there was not enough to produce publicity leaflets and posters . |
| 12 | There was not enough contact between the service and the world outside Whitehall while , in general , promotion depended too much on seniority and too little on merit . |
| 13 | It would n't be their fault that there was n't enough to go round . |
| 14 | I told him they said there was n't enough to go on , but if anything else happened it would all count . ’ |
| 15 | He found there was n't enough to eat on one . |
| 16 | But there was scarcely enough to colour the greyness of Christmas Day itself . |
| 17 | But there was still enough to enchant me . |
| 18 | In a contested election , however , it was impossible to do much with direct patronage , even if such were available , for there was never enough to do more than grease the palms of a handful of venal men , most of whom were to be found in the burgh councils . |
| 19 | All he did , day in day out , was sweat and slog in the fields , and even then there was never enough to eat . |
| 20 | ‘ There was never enough to eat . ’ |
| 21 | The salaries of staff , the replacement of vital instruments and many large items had to be funded from the National Health Service funds , so that there was never enough left to buy the extra comforts that made all the difference to the welfare of the patients . |
| 22 | Pressure for places in the navy was so great that it could prove a difficult tool for politicians able to supply such appointments , for there was never enough to meet all the demands for it , and the obligement of one could offend other freeholders less fortunate . |
| 23 | You know we only imported a small amount but all the same there was always enough to meet demand . |
| 24 | But it was difficult to believe this because there was always enough to eat , and they wore the same nice clothes . |
| 25 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 26 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 27 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 28 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 29 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 30 | It was little enough to expect . |