Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |
| 2 | The easiest way into a flat with aluminium frame windows is to use the little flap window at the top — the ventilator , only big enough for an organ grinder 's monkey , but easily opened with a knife , slipped underneath to prise up the catch . |
| 3 | Once viewed as not ample enough for a family meal , duck is now available in boneless breast fillets and joints which make portion control and carving easier . |
| 4 | Well it 's just normal really for a Saturday . |
| 5 | At Nesseby we found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes , which were all feeding large young . |
| 6 | No , it 's not brown enough for a hen . |
| 7 | You should have worn a coat over that dress — the night 's not warm enough for an outfit like that . ’ |
| 8 | A draught whipped his bare legs , and he glanced over his shoulder , along the passage ; there was a hole in the little window beside the back door , just large enough for a hand to come through and turn the key in the lock … . |
| 9 | In 1915 it had been widened to seven yards , just large enough for an up- and down-column of trucks . |
| 10 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 11 | Tyrell ran the March team in 1970 but the car was not good enough for a driver of Stewart 's calibre so Tyrell decided to build and run one under his own name for Stewart . |
| 12 | However , the colour quality is not good enough for a conventional printing system to reproduce , what that needs is colour separations . |
| 13 | It really is not good enough for a spokesman for the official Opposition to come here in spite , without reading the official report by the independent advisory committee . |
| 14 | Maria 's brilliant smile was for a particularly attentive television camera , but the dreams sparkling in her eyes were uncontrived , as pure delight and ambition triumphed over all else for a moment . |
| 15 | Life is not long enough for a faith without meaning . |
| 16 | Silverstein called Douglas , who had already read the script , and to Silverstein 's tremendous relief , Kirk said that the part was n't big enough for him as a star , and not small enough for a cameo . |
| 17 | Cos his hair 's not thick enough for a comb |
| 18 | Not big enough for a Walkman — lumpy bulges , not square . |
| 19 | The garden is not big enough for a swimming pool . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , that chicken coop 's not big enough for a one-man transmat . ’ |
| 21 | Unheeding , the Welshman went on , ‘ How are their wives expected to feed a family on a lump of cheese not big enough for a mouse , and a handful of peas that would n't satisfy a guinea-pig ? |
| 22 | Oh yes and and then it got too big for them they are no longer able to control it they 're not big enough for a big power two very big big brothers but they could n't run a company the size they built it . |
| 23 | probably not big enough for a man . |
| 24 | What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait . |
| 25 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
| 26 | It was just big enough for an adult to pass through on all fours . |
| 27 | The extra spur is a rutted track just wide enough for a car . |
| 28 | It was held that the effect of the clause was to throw onto the employer the risk of damage caused by fire , so that the contractor was not liable even for a fire caused by the negligence of its employees ( and despite the presence of a clause under which the contractor undertook to indemnify the employer against losses in respect of damage to property caused by the negligence of the contractor 's employees , which was held to be qualified by the clause dealing with fire insurance ) . |
| 29 | " I 'm still strong enough for a tug , " said Stephanie , too brightly . |
| 30 | She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion . |