Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] large enough [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I gave him a piece , which to my horror he popped straight into his mouth , for it was surely large enough to kill some half-dozen dragoons together with their horses .
2 The Department of Transport , they were very little help , we contacted them and after initial propaganda visits , we were told that sixty thousand tons of traffic was n't worth bothering about it was n't large enough to warrant any help or subsidy .
3 But it was n't large enough to button and showed her blouse and skirt , and so when she appeared in the yard again Ben , standing ready by the cart , grinned at her , saying , ‘ That 's nice !
4 The English government maintained a small military force in the islands but it was not large enough to guarantee the English population against slave revolt or foreign invasion , and the settlers had to make an effort on their own account as well .
5 We were to discover that it was just large enough to hold a corpse and two breathlessly claustrophobic busy-bodies .
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