Example sentences of "enough hold [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Americans she had scant respect and considered them to be nouveau riche upstarts , not good enough to hold a candle to the real thing . |
| 2 | He remembered Gina 's summing-up of Eleanor 's character and told her that she only saw people as shits because she was n't woman enough to hold a man . |
| 3 | ‘ How long ago was the floor solid enough to hold a party on it ? ’ |
| 4 | A wire stretched from the contraption at the top out towards the school and hanging from it was a dangerous-looking wooden basket , big enough to hold a single person . |
| 5 | Because Jo 's father was English and Lorna Lewis gave many interviews explaining that the secret of keeping a marriage together in Hollywood was to make sure your husband was the king of his own home , they had chosen a house built in English baronial style , with walls mantled with ivy , black exposed timbers , fireplaces big enough to hold a conference in and small diamond-paned windows through which the sun streamed defiantly in brilliant narrow shafts . |
| 6 | Declining on the grounds that he no longer had any religious faith , Uncle Hilbert sent a silver christening mug , large enough to hold a pint of beer . |
| 7 | She discovered there were seventeen pupils , ranging in age from six to twelve , and that they were housed in two so-called dormitories , which were divided by panels into cubicles , each being about twice the area of its narrow iron bed , just enough to hold a chest of drawers and leaving standing space in which to undress . |
| 8 | The worksheet is now big enough to hold a year 's data . |
| 9 | If the pot-au-feu is for a special occasion you include as well a boiling chicken , but since so many kitchens are n't equipped with a soup pot large enough to hold a chicken at the same time as all the meat , this may have to be cooked separately . |
| 10 | We were to discover that it was just large enough to hold a corpse and two breathlessly claustrophobic busy-bodies . |
| 11 | ‘ Good enough to hold a code ? ’ |
| 12 | Roman had clearly primed his housekeeper well in advance , Caroline reflected , finding herself whisked off through grandiose high-ceilinged passageways , up a curving staircase wide enough to accommodate a coach and four , and into a room large enough to hold a full-scale ball . |
| 13 | The first thing you learn up in Kisumu is that none of the churches are large enough to hold the large congregations attending Mass . |
| 14 | In the event their prestige was not enough to hold the seat . |
| 15 | The question we are entitled to ask is : are new values strong enough to hold the old institutions together ? |
| 16 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 17 | The mind of a young child is not yet strong enough to hold the two conflicting emotions . |
| 18 | Take a new but washed tea towel or piece of muslin large enough to hold the cake and moisten with half of the remaining bourbon . |
| 19 | Mix the wine , sugar , and spices in a saucepan large enough to hold the pears upright . |
| 20 | Pockets on a rucksack need to be large enough to hold the things you want to put in them ! |
| 21 | On the other hand , strength at sea would help displace the Portuguese who had gained control of the Indian Ocean a century earlier , and this would please the Emperor ; accordingly the East India Company armed its ships heavily enough to hold the sea against the Portuguese and against the local pirates . |
| 22 | But let us suppose that there are theories robust enough to hold the tension . |
| 23 | Once again , the gaps between the central strip and the beading must be wide enough to hold the glass . |
| 24 | This is to make certain that the frame is wide enough to hold the glass . |
| 25 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
| 26 | The Lloyd is firm enough to hold the bolt there when you push open the door . |
| 27 | We would still be wasting a lot of space because some names , addresses etc are longer than others and our " slots " must be large enough to hold the longest . |
| 28 | Bridgend had a strong side out … not strong enough to hold the cherry and whites though … |
| 29 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 30 | It is easy enough to hold an opinion , but hard work to actually know what one is talking about . |