Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem was to find exports with which to pay for it ; English woollens and iron products were not luxurious enough for the ruling class in India and were far too expensive for the vast majority of the population . |
| 2 | If the quality is n't high enough for the final product the flexibility gained by using industry standard coding or a page description language such as PostScript means the same file can be passed to a professional typesetting system without the need for re-typing . |
| 3 | Our understanding of each other is adequate enough for the small change of moral discourse , leaving us in no doubt of how most people feel about being murdered , robbed , raped or cheated , but the more sensitive the valuation the less confidently it can be made . |
| 4 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 5 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 6 | But it is a goal appropriate only for the particular , specialised use of language that I have called text . |
| 7 | Disgusted by his own conceit , Maxim drifted out to the steps down to the lawn — the night was still warm enough for the big windows to be open-flanked by two huge , discreetly floodlit magnolia trees . |
| 8 | Apparently FirstPerson will have a tough task to water down the industrial-strength principals of Spring and make them lightweight enough for the mass consumer market . |
| 9 | They took me back to London that night , and looked after me carefully all the next day , so that , although my arm was still aching , and I felt very weak , I was fit enough for the planned journey on Wednesday . |
| 10 | Gravel that is about half an inch in diameter has been found to be large enough for the large cichlid community tank . |
| 11 | Hitler was fit only for the loony bin , his generals would kill him within five minutes if he ever declared war , and he only had one ball . |
| 12 | However , such beef is lean as the animals are fed on grass rather than grain , so that it is fit only for the fast-food trade , one third of this meat goes into hamburgers . |
| 13 | A panel composed of more than 100 friends of the Caroline Walker Trust casts it net widely for the annual nominations . |
| 14 | Robson swooped back into Premier League action for the first time since 6 December , but his 14-minute cameo appearance was not long enough for the rusty 36-year-old to re-charge a championship bid which is going rapidly flat . |
| 15 | While East-West links across the Pennines are not good enough for the modern world , there are still the time-honoured facilitating gaps of Tyne and Aire , now complemented by the M62 . |
| 16 | Other materials , made from natural fibres such as cotton , hemp , flax , and even silk , have played their part in the past , and that is the operative term , for , apart from the traditional and ceremonial kites where authenticity is upheld to the highest degree , such materials are no longer good enough for the modern kite . |
| 17 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
| 18 | Lawrence insists the club needs 18,000 gates this term and warned : ‘ Last season 's 15,000 average is n't good enough for the Premier League . ’ |
| 19 | The 6 cyl is the best Land Rover to fit a V8 into as there is 6″ more room in the engine bay and the brakes are good enough for the extra power The only modification on the vehicle is to trim the side of the footwells to allow the exhaust manifolds to fit The prop gearbox etc remain as original |
| 20 | Mansell had taken pole — a record 14th in a season — but Senna 's stunning lap , good enough for the front row , while perhaps having more to do with the driver than the car , revealed that McLaren was closer than usual this year to Williams . |
| 21 | good enough for the whole group ? |
| 22 | ‘ That attitude towards the future is not good enough for the British people . |
| 23 | They 're not good enough for the British people . |
| 24 | That 's why I 'm trying to fill up the gap with a few concerts , but of course I 'm not good enough for the big dates , it will be mostly provincial engagements . |
| 25 | Bay is another ; one leaf is quite powerful enough for the average family casserole . |
| 26 | And provided that he did have a ‘ residence ’ ( or ‘ abode ’ , the concept used in other contexts ) there , in which he spent a substantial part of the year , it would not be necessary for him to be physically present there for the whole three-month period prior to the qualifying date . |
| 27 | The cost of this story was very high , not least for the time , materials and manpower needed to build the ‘ giant ’ sets and props ( the sink , the telephone , the briefcase , the lab bench , etc. ) , all of which had to be robust enough for the regular cast to clamber around . |
| 28 | King Kong plunging to his death from a great height and the real death of a bird in the sky , events dramatic enough for the whirring imagination of a seven year old to cope with . |
| 29 | If one is partly responsible already for the general policy of a Church or for anything else , it is better to be more responsible . |
| 30 | Apart from qualifying the scope of Samuel , Alladice is important also for the interesting observations made by Lord Lane about legal advice and the right to silence . |