Example sentences of "[adj] enough for a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The most densely populated town on the Nullarbor , Cook has 110 inhabitants , who live opposite each other on the widest street in the southern hemisphere , broad enough for a camel-train to make a U-turn . |
2 | We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft . |
3 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
4 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
5 | Quill-written characters consist of a series of more-or-less straight strokes , simple enough for a computer to turn into numbers and analyse , but complex enough to vary from scribe to scribe . |
6 | Designaknit is simple enough for a child to use . |
7 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
8 | A draught whipped his bare legs , and he glanced over his shoulder , along the passage ; there was a hole in the little window beside the back door , just large enough for a hand to come through and turn the key in the lock … . |
9 | The length of the synthetic sequence should be long enough for a pattern to emerge ; the length of the four sequences given above is not sufficient for reliable conclusions to be drawn . |
10 | In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times . |
11 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
12 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
13 | Six feet down , there is a huge circular cellar , ten or twelve feet across and two feet or so high , quite big enough for a man to crawl into . |
14 | If you can pull them out you can make a hole big enough for a man to get inside . |
15 | The temperature dependence of η can normally be expressed in the form where A is a constant and ΔE D represents the activation energy required to create a hole big enough for a molecule to translate or ‘ jump ’ into during flow . |
16 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
17 | When all the plates were riveted together , the structure would form a square tube fourteen feet wide and about twenty-five feet high overall — big enough for a train to pass through . |
18 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |
19 | This is cheap enough for a user to want to buy one rather than go on a commercial training course . |