Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The restaurant was little more than an intelligently decorated semi-basement with space enough for a bar and a half dozen tables . |
| 32 | Dairy cattle … eh , Beh , milk is not food enough for a man and besides I have my fields to plough . ’ |
| 33 | answered and deep enough for a boat if we had one . |
| 34 | He confirmed that the lump on my thigh was indeed big enough for a biopsy and that Dr Slachman would be performing the small operation ( thank God it 's not Bloodnott ) . |
| 35 | ‘ He 's sly enough for a Quaker or that newfangled Methody . |
| 36 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 37 | In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her . |
| 38 | We got a house with three bedrooms , a bathroom , a separate sitting room and dining room , a kitchen big enough for a table and chairs ( saving mothers from solitary domestic confinement ) , front and back garden , a coal house , inside lavatory and outside lavatory and wash house where people stored dolly tubs and mangles , bikes and prams . |
| 39 | The only other low-cost option is to take a colour photograph of the screen and whilst this might suffice for business charts it certainly wo n't be accurate enough for a designer or architect . |
| 40 | As promised , one of the project workers gave me an early shake and I had time enough for a coffee before I needed to set off to meet Jenny . |
| 41 | There will be an hour 's break during which organisers hope the weather will be fine enough for a picnic and the performance begins at 7.30 p.m . |
| 42 | Most of the passes are small and dangerous , wide enough for a merchant and his donkeys but unsuitable for carts or horses . |
| 43 | It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert . |
| 44 | It was ample for a small family of four of modest intent , yet large enough for a maid and a nurse to be employed . |
| 45 | In 1915 it had been widened to seven yards , just large enough for an up- and down-column of trucks . |
| 46 | Perhaps worth a word or two . |
| 47 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 48 | Several shot lying on the bottom act better as a brake if set slightly apart from each other . |
| 49 | Indeed it will be described almost entirely as a liability because the costs will be known . |
| 50 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 51 | Aunt knew her at school ; Aunt went to a posh boarding-school — only for a year or two — and she likes you to know it . |
| 52 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 53 | In a sense , a very basic one , the riots were political : " a groping desire to settle accounts with the rich , if only for a day and to achieve some rough kind of social justice " . |
| 54 | In the west of Scotland , CCG have been selected by the CPC Social Club in Paisley , not only for a bar and food service with entertainment for 420 members , but also for ground maintenance including their bowling greens and tennis courts . |
| 55 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 56 | Cover the treatment bath to prevent the fish jumping out , even if the bath is only for a minute or two . |
| 57 | I 'd met Laura 's husband only for a minute or two , but he seemed like a regular guy . |
| 58 | I was frightened , of course , but only for a second or two . |
| 59 | but only for a second as he sets off |
| 60 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |