Example sentences of "[adj] enough for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion . |
| 2 | Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs . |
| 3 | ‘ T would have been easy enough for a determined boy to climb the wall and follow them . |
| 4 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 5 | " Good enough for a working theory , anyway . " |
| 6 | ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Bob rose to the challenge and in January 1991 his first task was to replace hundreds of original magnesium allow rivets , which were good enough for a static rebuild , but not if the aircraft was to fly again . |
| 8 | However , the colour quality is not good enough for a conventional printing system to reproduce , what that needs is colour separations . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 10 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 11 | DO N'T WORRY IF YOUR WALLET IS N'T FAT ENOUGH FOR A READY-MADE LAN STATION . |
| 12 | It all might be serviceable enough for a Polish field-worker to wear during the potato harvest , but it was surely no serious proposal for festive dressing . |
| 13 | In the calculation of moduli , whether the " chain " modulus or the bulk modulus , it has been assumed that the displacements are small enough for a Hookean spring to be the model for the interaction . |
| 14 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 15 | Underneath you 'll find an oven big enough for a family-sized turkey . |
| 16 | Well I do n't think they 're big enough for a big tent , I mean one is fairly long , but er I do n't |
| 17 | Oh yes and and then it got too big for them they are no longer able to control it they 're not big enough for a big power two very big big brothers but they could n't run a company the size they built it . |
| 18 | It was just big enough for Angalo and Masklin , and big enough for a terrified Gurder with the two of them pulling on his arms . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , that chicken coop 's not big enough for a one-man transmat . ’ |
| 20 | On the third attempt James Dougal brought the lifeboat close enough for a heaving line to be thrown to the divers . |
| 21 | It 's bad enough for a young person going into hospital for an operation but when you get to her age you deserve a bit more care . |
| 22 | Anita Brookner 's novels are London-based , and they revive in their concise and elegant style , in fictions at once grim and yet subtly self-mocking , the Brontëan theme of lonely , loving heroines more sensitive than beautiful — ‘ she was attractive enough for a clever woman , but it was principally as a clever woman that she was attractive ’ — and , as in the Brontës , without the solace of a happy ending . |