Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] enough [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident is a more extreme example of a common enough practice in the development of a new popular style for royalty . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A sequence of mild winters with low deer mortality and declining competition from sheep have contributed to this increase , but the main cause is the consistent failure of many estates to balance the number of stags shot with a large enough cull of hinds — a labour-intensive process with small returns from the sale of venison . |
| 4 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 5 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 6 | The advantage of running a competition is that it should be cost effective if the cost of the prizes is spread over a large enough number of entrants . |
| 7 | Did the Unit never in fact settle on a simple enough statement of its function to entrust to journalists ? |
| 8 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 9 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |