Example sentences of "enough [prep] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most densely populated town on the Nullarbor , Cook has 110 inhabitants , who live opposite each other on the widest street in the southern hemisphere , broad enough for a camel-train to make a U-turn . |
| 2 | This is cheap enough for a user to want to buy one rather than go on a commercial training course . |
| 3 | Designaknit is simple enough for a child to use . |
| 4 | Yale make one at around £5 which allows windows to open a bit for ventilation but not enough for a child to squeeze through . |
| 5 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
| 6 | It was never properly looked after and could sometimes have as much as two inches of muddy water in it — enough for a child to drown in if he fell over . |
| 7 | In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times . |
| 8 | We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft . |
| 9 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
| 10 | A sketch with a few rough dimensions may be enough for a man to trim some timber into a frame for a house . |
| 11 | Six feet down , there is a huge circular cellar , ten or twelve feet across and two feet or so high , quite big enough for a man to crawl into . |
| 12 | Then the grenade exploded , tore the doors apart some two metres , enough for a man to get through , but not the Jeep . |
| 13 | If you can pull them out you can make a hole big enough for a man to get inside . |
| 14 | Quill-written characters consist of a series of more-or-less straight strokes , simple enough for a computer to turn into numbers and analyse , but complex enough to vary from scribe to scribe . |
| 15 | When all the plates were riveted together , the structure would form a square tube fourteen feet wide and about twenty-five feet high overall — big enough for a train to pass through . |
| 16 | That is , they will move forward far enough to collect a loop of yarn ( if we were knitting ) , but not far enough for a stitch to go behind the latch and knit . |
| 17 | The temperature dependence of η can normally be expressed in the form where A is a constant and ΔE D represents the activation energy required to create a hole big enough for a molecule to translate or ‘ jump ’ into during flow . |
| 18 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
| 19 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 20 | It was not until they moved to Brisbane that life became settled enough for a house to hold much significance . |
| 21 | I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away . |
| 22 | A draught whipped his bare legs , and he glanced over his shoulder , along the passage ; there was a hole in the little window beside the back door , just large enough for a hand to come through and turn the key in the lock … . |
| 23 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |
| 24 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
| 25 | Two to three tablespoons of tinned tomatoes are enough for a sauce made from 2 lb. of the fresh fruit or for 3 pints of stock . |
| 26 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is highly unlikely that any consultancy you appoint will know enough about a company to allow it to undertake the audit without considerable input from your senior management . |
| 29 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 30 | You have in your hands a book which starts clearly enough with a character trying to escape from his author and which has now reached the opposite pole with the real author ( myself trying to escape from his own character . |