Example sentences of "enough [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 2 | The Irish are patient enough to wait for a lucky break . |
| 3 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 4 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 5 | In the 1912 London dock strike , the Transport Workers ' Federation had been willing enough to agree to a joint board and but for Lord Devonport 's stubborn resistance this might have been achieved . |
| 6 | As these buns are so small , it is very important that the filling chosen should be smooth enough to pass through a fine pipe into the pastry . |
| 7 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 8 | Eventually , I came to my senses and accepted that I was not fit enough to train like a 2:10 marathoner . |
| 9 | He was good enough to work like a black for the Tories , but would they offer him a seat ? |
| 10 | However , I hope that these notes will be good enough to serve as a general guide . |
| 11 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 12 | It is no longer possible to either create a toner particle small enough to stick to a single pixel of charge or to maintain that pixel of charge in isolation long enough for the toner , were it there , to stick . |
| 13 | Pray God to purify and refine them , so that they can be sharp enough and strong enough to cleave like a great blade through the selfishness . |
| 14 | Each litre of brine contains between 0–6 and 6.5 grams of zinc , However no one knows if the brine is concentrated enough to tap from a small area . |
| 15 | Then , at Queenstown , South Island 's most popular tourist town , you might be lucky enough to run across a former world-class exponent of the ski-slopes , Murray ‘ Mo ’ Gardner . |
| 16 | It will not fit our practice well enough to count as an eligible interpretation , and its normative program will be empty , because it instructs us to follow conventions that do not exist . |
| 17 | She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables . |
| 18 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 19 | The diesel engine burns its fuel so much more efficiently that its hydro carbon and carbon monoxide emisions are low enough to dispense with a two way catalytic converter . |
| 20 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 21 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 22 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 23 | Well , the script was mislaid in the familiar maw which has snaffled up many a pleasing English scenario , and they were lucky enough to survive with a one-goal advantage at the finish . |
| 24 | When I was foolish enough to laugh at a preposterous and provocative statement made by Mr Dinsdale — who had surely modelled himself on Dickens 's character Mr Bounderby — he gave me a withering look and asked sarcastically : ‘ Is this a reason to laugh ? ’ |
| 25 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 26 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 27 | It is not enough to change to a new paragraph at intervals just because you know that a block of text is always broken up in this way . |
| 28 | Dixon had been in the business long enough to convey by a subtle nuance of tone that the Chief Constable was not in an amiable mood . |
| 29 | Sometimes a solitary individual is brave enough to act as a one-bird mob and attack a predator on its own , as this roller is doing , worrying a martial eagle . |
| 30 | During the 1530s this number was substantially reduced , and a small , select group was formed , compact enough to act as an advisory and executive board . |