Example sentences of "[be] enough for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 3 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 4 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 5 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 6 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 7 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 8 | Ulpian also cites another equivalent wording , ‘ the vineyards or farm are enough for you ’ ( sufficiunt tibi vineae vel fundus ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These are enough for quite extended works . |
| 11 | The income from the farm and lands are enough for us to live in comparative comfort without going cap-in-hand to common tradesmen . |
| 12 | They believe that the miserly increases being made now are enough for pensioners . |
| 13 | One kilogram contents are enough for about thr thirty metres square |
| 14 | Even such richness may not be enough for a theoretician . |
| 15 | But it will be enough for many people that the Poll Tax will cost her the next general election . |
| 16 | Look here , my mother knows me and that ought to be enough for you . ’ |
| 17 | A new budget of £1,500 for the next six months should be enough for local advertising . |
| 18 | While Benjamin Dale , the composer , or Leigh Henry , the critic , lectured on Stravinsky and Schoenberg ( in 1915 ! ) , two companies of music-hall artists competed with Legs and the Woman ( the title after Shaw … ) and with the camp 's first ragtime chorus in drag : Down in Ruhleben , there I want to be , Four thousand boys would be enough for me ! |
| 19 | ‘ That will be enough for him , because he knows that next time he will make more money , perhaps 10 , perhaps even 50 per cent . |
| 20 | All this , you might think , would be enough for any playwright but , with reckless abandon , Shadwell keeps flinging further ingredients into his rich comic stew . |
| 21 | A table-topping rebound next year would not be enough for a quick return if a no-promotion season is declared to accommodate the proposal to reduce League One to 10 clubs — a mad price to pay for an all-play-all format . |
| 22 | That would be enough for most people , but in October South Africa play nine matches in France and follow that with four matches in England . |
| 23 | Balancing 40 tons of liquid metal above your head would be enough for anyone . |
| 24 | But then I do n't suppose that would be enough for you , and after all this is Boy 's story mostly , he is after all in a proper sense my hero , and you have to have this Boy clearly in your mind before we can proceed . |
| 25 | You will find that two to four teaspoonfuls of oil will be enough for the average back . |
| 26 | I thought of Tagore who said , ‘ withhold from me the things that man desire and want ; leave me only what they despise and overlook , they will be enough for me . ’ |
| 27 | At the current rate of use of some 1.5 x 10 12 cubic metres per year , this should be enough for another 50 years or so . |
| 28 | Instead of having to prove substantial fettering of competition , it may now be enough for the Commission to show that competition has already been weakened by the presence of the dominant undertaking and that some further action on its part would impede the maintenance or development of effective competition in ( or in a substantial part of the Common Market . |
| 29 | That should be enough for you . ’ |
| 30 | The first rule is that outlay in total , private and public , must always be enough for full employment . |