Example sentences of "big enough [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
2 | No the only firm that does hand weaving and hand dyeing on on a big enough scale is in West Wales in the middle of a place called . |
3 | But the analysis of the composition of a big enough sample should enable a comparison to be made between different hoards and the determination of a ‘ typical ’ currency hoard whose contents will most likely represent coins drawn from circulation . |
4 | That was a big enough clue for Neil . |
5 | She stood up suddenly , so that she could stamp the floor , annoyed because tennis shoes could n't make a big enough noise to suit her fury . |
6 | A combination of ‘ inconsistent supply and inadequate demand ’ meant they simply were n't shifting produce quickly enough to generate a big enough profit . |
7 | So he just looked at it and says making a big enough profit . |
8 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
9 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
10 | The Arkansas Governor , Bill ‘ Slick Willie ’ Clinton , has outpandered California 's ex-Governor Jerry ‘ Moonbeam ’ Brown by a whisker , has spoken a bit more sense with a bit less pizzazz and conviction , and looks set to scoop a big enough bundle of votes to guarantee him the nomination — unless he falls victim to further scandal or Democratic Party fixers impose a ‘ brokered convention ’ to find a last-ditch candidate . |
11 | Both sides blame one another and the result has been chaotic sales , at a time when the slack market has been a big enough handicap anyway . |
12 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
13 | We 'd have our own generator too , only there 's not a big enough head of water to our spring . |
14 | As it was , she had made a big enough fool of herself already . |
15 | They did n't have enough people with them , they did n't have a big enough army . |
16 | You can go and get it out , you 're a big enough boy now to fetch it . |
17 | In general , the wider ( and often cheaper ) choice of credit types which is opened up by monthly-paid bank accounts seems to us to be , on its own , a big enough advantage to outweigh what is really the temporary awkwardness of change to a new set of habits . |
18 | There is the difficulty of finding a big enough storage medium to hold all the required data and there is the problem of retrieving large volumes of data from the storage medium fast enough to update the screen for moving information . |
19 | If , as you approach retirement , you become aware that you are not going to have a big enough pension to live as comfortably as you would like , you might seriously consider the possibility of making additional voluntary contributions . |
20 | No , my clients get a big enough giggle as it is . |
21 | ‘ Not with a big enough wage , that was the problem . |
22 | On present form , some will not provide a big enough payout to clear off the loan , so you may have to pay higher monthly premiums to make up the shortfall . |
23 | Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment . |
24 | The trick in designing a successful patent system is to provide a big enough incentive for invention , but not such a large and long-lived cushion that the benefits of competition are suppressed for ever . |
25 | She got a big enough fright when I said : ‘ Excuse me , but your wee laddie is filling your bag with apples that I 'm sure you 'll not be wanting . |
26 | It was n't a big enough room there . |
27 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
28 | the only thing is I have n't got a big enough jug so I have to do half quantities . |
29 | And you know I think if we can , that 's a big enough task for us to take on here . |
30 | Is York a big enough city to have them ? |