Example sentences of "[adj] enough [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lamer and lamer , but Bob was discreet enough not to press . |
| 2 | ’ Gustave complains in this letter to Bouilhet about the dangers of planning a project too thoroughly : ‘ It seems to me , alas , that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born , you do n't get horny enough actually to father them . ’ |
| 3 | At the same time they have kept their support tepid enough not to threaten their pose as the Palestinians ' champion . |
| 4 | The brief dew on his lashes , that had caught the thin early rays of the risen sun , was dry enough now , his mouth was set in a rigid line . |
| 5 | So the years went by , and such involvements as came along never satisfied me as being quite right enough either for one thing or the other . |
| 6 | If you make complex constructions , make sure they are stable enough not to tumble , possibly injuring your fish , or breaking the tank glass . |
| 7 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 8 | And if he had got little enough out of that interview , at least he had lobbed one small , accurate pebble into the middle of the pool of their tranquillity , and its ripples were already beginning to spread outwards . |
| 9 | THE Kuwaitis are probably still rich enough not to care too much what others think of them , even the Americans . |
| 10 | SELFRIDGES £3.75 for eight ( 47p each ) : Very traditional with a nice brown crust and just wonky enough so people can get away with claiming they baked it themselves . |
| 11 | Such a test much be wide enough to safeguard public morality , yet narrow enough not to encroach on private taste or conscience . |
| 12 | This seemed a more promising foundation upon which to develop electronic , in the sense of non-print , publishing : sufficiently removed from print production , yet strong enough intellectually to fulfil our overall educational aims . |
| 13 | Major reform depended on a political will and competence strong enough either to coerce the Treasury or enlist its cooperation . |
| 14 | The accommodationist states were inhibited by the rejectionist ones and were not strong enough militarily without the latter to be credible . |
| 15 | In the 1860s before Haussmannization had taken effect , class barriers were strong enough so that the ‘ public idiom ’ still was not satisfactorily standardized . |
| 16 | Not strong enough so anyone would really notice … ’ |
| 17 | You do n't think we 're strong enough then , police ? |
| 18 | Well , the hatred was strong enough now , and his hand went to his bruised cheek . |
| 19 | He was strong enough now to attribute the man 's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice . |
| 20 | The daylight was strong enough now for him to see the tower of the ancient stone church silhouetted against the horizon , perched on a ridge . |
| 21 | The table has to be solid enough not to give way when the patient rests on it , and it should be big enough to hold all the things the patient needs when he is out of bed . |
| 22 | At the same time , exhibits must be low-key enough not to distract visitors from their own thoughts : Auschwitz is also a cemetery . |
| 23 | I waited in the kitchen until it was light enough outside for me to find my way through the deep snow back to Thrushcross Grange . |
| 24 | What you need is something with a bit of muscle , but which is frugal enough not to bankrupt you before you get within sight of open water . |
| 25 | We knew the weather conditions were calm enough inshore but fresher on the other side of the Channel so the indications were that she had probably crossed from France overnight . |
| 26 | I am calm enough now , calm enough to like living here at Thornfield . |
| 27 | Is this enough yet ? |
| 28 | Travis was impatient to get on , but Paige was in a Libran mood , depressed and bloody-minded enough not to allow herself to be chivvied before she was ready . |
| 29 | It was wet enough already . |
| 30 | They thought he his 6 ft 4 in frame was paunchy enough already . |