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

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1 I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement .
2 She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion .
3 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 .
4 Goebbels 's rousing ‘ total war ’ speech on 18 February 1943 stirred the Party faithful again for a short time .
5 ‘ T would have been easy enough for a determined boy to climb the wall and follow them .
6 And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 " Good enough for a working theory , anyway . "
12 ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said .
13 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 .
14 However , the colour quality is not good enough for a conventional printing system to reproduce , what that needs is colour separations .
15 ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said .
16 He stood still again for a long moment ; then lifted his head , sighing deeply .
17 The City of London Police ( who are responsible only for a square mile at the centre of London ) are controlled by a committee of elected councillors .
18 The Bournemouth International Centre is not really extensive or flexible enough for a modern Conservative Party Conference .
19 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment .
20 DO N'T WORRY IF YOUR WALLET IS N'T FAT ENOUGH FOR A READY-MADE LAN STATION .
21 It all might be serviceable enough for a Polish field-worker to wear during the potato harvest , but it was surely no serious proposal for festive dressing .
22 The 1st Shadwell Pack had been very busy indeed for a long time .
23 I always thought I 'd like to be stuck there for a dirty weekend . ’
24 only we were stuck there for a little while last time could n't get out could we ?
25 She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once .
26 A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time .
27 Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary .
28 … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing .
29 In the calculation of moduli , whether the " chain " modulus or the bulk modulus , it has been assumed that the displacements are small enough for a Hookean spring to be the model for the interaction .
30 " Fine , " said John , " but they are too far away for a good picture . "
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