Example sentences of "[be] [adj] enough [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads .
2 This is why thresholds are needed : when cat is presented , numerous logogens will be excited , but in every case the excitation will not be high enough for the threshold level to be reached — except for the logogen for cat , which will receive so much evidence that its threshold will be reached .
3 Tunnels and bridges must be high enough for the train to go under .
4 The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads .
5 ‘ I am so lucky , ’ she said , ‘ the water in these two hot-water bottles will still be warm enough by the morning for my bath . ’
6 Before long , the baby will be large enough for the midwife and doctor to feel her position inside you .
7 But I think that er this er Centenary Sports Ground gon na be large enough for the public to see and this and wants to be on a smaller metal er edition that 's there for er ever and a day .
8 1 It must be large enough for the spider to build its web in .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended .
12 But they 've got to be long enough in the leg for me
13 They wanted Benjamin to be fuzzy enough as a fantasy figure so that everyone in America could identify with him without joining the Movement .
14 We 'll need all the cold we can get if the ice is to be firm enough for the plane to land . ’
15 Crowther , 59 , hopes to be back for the new series next year , but wo n't be well enough for the show on January 2 .
16 Robert had a headache and stayed behind : he wanted to be well enough for the Opera that evening .
17 If the police said they were satisfied that the death was accidental , that was good enough for him , and should be good enough for the jury .
18 In any case , if the food and conditions in the staff restaurant are n't good enough for you , why should they be good enough for the person who cleans your office ?
19 Is it not also a fact that in this case it is clear that , if the Court of Appeal believes that he had no intention of flouting a court order and of putting himself above the law , that should be good enough for the rest of us ?
20 But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter .
21 There was some scepticism as to whether performance would be good enough in a system built from the bottom up in objects .
22 While for some this may be evident enough in the society of mass consumption , it has equally commonly been assumed that this degree of variability is an aberrant result of the wastage of modern capitalism , and that the ‘ pristine ’ subjects of social anthropology live in a far closer relationship with the given needs of their environment ( e.g. Forde 1934 ) .
23 These would be fine used inside the house , but normal floor paint may not be tough enough for the garage .
24 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 .
25 This should be accurate enough for the findspot to be plotted on a map and for someone else to be able to find the location .
26 By six o'clock , when even the tail-enders of the department had gone , Leith had swung from wanting with everything she had to hang on to her job , to be furious enough with the man who was making her sweat it out to tell him exactly what he could do with it .
27 The gaps between the central strip and the beading must be wide enough for the glass to slip easily into them .
28 And in build , and in age , yes , striding along to get out of the rain the sooner , he might well be close enough to the shape Aldhelm would present , to an assassin waiting .
29 He was then able not only to find the green with a nine-iron but be close enough for a tap-in putt for his three .
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