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

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1 If people are fit to work , they are fit enough to cycle five miles ( on average , 74 per cent of all car journeys are less than five miles ) .
2 And I said to me mother , I says look here , when I 'm old enough to work I say 's , I ai n't going to work for me dad I shall get a job on me own .
3 They were not er they were old enough to work , they were much older than me .
4 Her period then came early and flooded and the symptoms were severe enough to warrent a new prescription ( the Staphisagria was n't helping ) which came out to Millefolium .
5 Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ?
6 It 's easy enough to dirt .
7 I do n't know enough actuarial work to be able to and what settlements they should receive , but our own experience is that it 's hard enough to round up pensioners to form an association and we embody deferred pensioners and they 're even harder .
8 Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized .
9 But if he and the club feel he is close enough to soundness to allow him to travel and let us decide , we will do that .
10 Yeah , it is it 's near enough to town but out of it .
11 Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form .
12 " I hope no one 's been silly enough to bolt out of this field , " answered Hazel .
13 If a fish was receptive enough to electricity to pick up any tiny currents induced in its body , they would provide an additional guide to the Earth 's magnetic field .
14 There was no sign of either Ferdinando or Annunciata in the kitchen so she was bold enough to tip-toe towards the drawing room where she hesitated again and peered round the door .
15 At the end of April , however , it was near enough to completion for Nietzsche , at last , to send the first part of the manuscript to a publisher , Engelmann , in Leipzig .
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