Example sentences of "[adj] enough [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declarer was alert enough to put this information to good use . |
| 2 | Much research and attention to artists ' requirements has led to a new breed of synthetic brushes which are highly appropriate for use with acrylics , among other uses , which hold their shape well over a long period of time , are delightfully responsive to use , are superbly controllable , allowing precision work , and are durable enough to resist occasional misuse . |
| 3 | And his feeling of intense satisfaction at this conclusion was only because he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision . |
| 4 | A pleasant enough looking young man was Yuri Rudakov in his slacks and open check shirt and loose grey jacket . |
| 5 | It should be flexible : not in terms of changing.to meet the inputs but in terms of being broad enough to channel different inputs in the required direction . |
| 6 | The Church was always broad enough to include such people . |
| 7 | He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety . |
| 8 | Wycliffe walked on towards the town , but he avoided the waterfront and returned instead by the main street , which was narrow enough to give some shelter from the gale . |
| 9 | The sound of these great explosions was audible over a large part of the Earth 's surface : at Elsey Creek in South Australia , 3,224 kilometres from Krakatoa , the noise was loud enough to wake sleeping people , who described it as being similar to the sound of rock being blasted . |
| 10 | Well , because the internal speakers already run at 4 ohms , any additional speakers would create the wrong impedance and , besides , the S80 is loud enough to handle most situations without extra cabs . |
| 11 | And profitable enough to employ 6 farm workers . |
| 12 | In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground . |
| 13 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 14 | Late in the nineteenth century , however , they were not strong enough to resist European troops . |
| 15 | When the Court was abolished in 1641 the Common Law Courts had become strong enough to give adequate redress . |
| 16 | However , the recovery is not expected to be strong enough to enable total visitor numbers for 1991 to surpass 1990 's record of 1.4 million . |
| 17 | He strode about the Residency and the banqueting hall , followed by those men who were still strong enough to lift heavy objects . |
| 18 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 19 | ‘ We need education authorities which are strong enough to take strategic decisions on provision of education in their areas . |
| 20 | One member uses coercion , expertise or position to dominate the others , and conformity pressures are strong enough to eliminate constructive criticism . |
| 21 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 22 | The output from these is not strong enough to harm other animals , rarely rising about a single volt . |
| 23 | It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations . |
| 24 | No state is strong enough to play this role solo . |
| 25 | She carried a small basket in her hand containing food for her frugal evening meal , although the rancid smells around her were strong enough to diminish any desire to eat — she had not yet grown sufficiently accustomed to them to ignore them . |
| 26 | The sole of the boot is strong enough to attach articulated crampons . |
| 27 | Even the steelwork in such plants can perform as an aerial , converting wave energy to sparks strong enough to ignite flammable gases . |
| 28 | It was introduced by confident elites who were strong enough to pay minimal wages and subject workers to appalling and often highly dangerous conditions ( particularly in the mining industry ) , extremely arduous hours of work and quick — if necessary , brutal — repression of worker demands . |
| 29 | But none of these was strong enough to make much difference to the general picture of eighteenth-century Europe as overwhelmingly monarchical . |
| 30 | It must be strong enough to provide those services needed for the security of society ; powerful and efficient armed forces and police are essential . |