Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph .
2 I , I will I 'll stick that in for a few grand .
3 No they have n't got that in for a little while .
4 She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion .
5 Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs .
6 Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories .
7 ‘ How much difference would it make if you cleared this away for a few minutes — that 's all ? ’ persisted Huy .
8 any lock which is detailed under 2 above for a main entrance door(s)/final exit door(s) together with
9 Arguably it 's easier now for a British composer to get an opera on to the stage than at any time since 1945 .
10 Goebbels 's rousing ‘ total war ’ speech on 18 February 1943 stirred the Party faithful again for a short time .
11 WORLD champions Germany fought back from 3–0 down for a 3–3 US Cup draw with Brazil in Washington .
12 ‘ T would have been easy enough for a determined boy to climb the wall and follow them .
13 And five minutes from time , he cheered a meagre 2,363 crowd — Pompey 's lowest ever for a competitive game at home — with a clinical winner after a right-wing burst from Warren Aspinall .
14 I never had the opportunity to tell Christie of my method of making up crews , At Kinloss when I was chair-bound there for a short period , all too frequently I received complaints about the composition of crews .
15 On the next day , July 24 1890 , thirty-six intending members ( including four ladies ) assembled at 10 am. for a private meeting in the small Lecture Hall of the Church Institute in Albion Place .
16 Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn .
17 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 .
18 That is rarer still for a worldwide index .
19 They are useful only for a single set of data and can not be used to compare two sets unless two pies each representing different totals are compared .
20 Nato has also been used for the neck and fingerboard and while the overall appearance of the SW213 wo n't compete with more expensive instruments it 's quite good enough for a 100 quid guitar .
21 " Good enough for a working theory , anyway . "
22 ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said .
23 Still , Mel was good enough for a first team place in our first year back and did OK .
24 Nevertheless , Bob rose to the challenge and in January 1991 his first task was to replace hundreds of original magnesium allow rivets , which were good enough for a static rebuild , but not if the aircraft was to fly again .
25 However , the colour quality is not good enough for a conventional printing system to reproduce , what that needs is colour separations .
26 ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said .
27 I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while .
28 It would be madness to throw it all away for a few moments of nerve-storming passion .
29 They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day .
30 Arthurton , who survived a strong appeal for a catch behind on 78 , lifted West Indies to 371 all out for a 78-run first innings lead on the third day of the first Test .
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