Example sentences of "enough to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The critic , I hold , should be loyal enough to his own impressions to confess to what is probably due to his own defects . |
| 2 | Application for a grant should be made at the same time as the application for an audition in order that you can be sure of your position should you be fortunate enough to be offered a place . |
| 3 | Perhaps directors in particular need to realise how much their vitality means to the continuing performance — that it is n't enough to be left up on a stage merely doing it night after night . |
| 4 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 5 | There is the suggestion , therefore , that the traditional popular religion is in decline , albeit still responsive enough to hierarchical religious leadership to produce the necessary political religious results . |
| 6 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 7 | You had n't told your wife about it , so I thought it was probably bad news , and that it might have upset you enough to — well , to do something . |
| 8 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 9 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 10 | This boy of yours is twenty-five years old , old enough to father children and break hearts . |
| 11 | Was young Donald sound enough to be sent to contact other families ? |
| 12 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 13 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 14 | It was close enough to the cottage for her to take an early morning dip or a quick swim before dinner . |
| 15 | As for Bulwark , it was severely damaged , but valuable enough to be repaired . |
| 16 | This is , of course , the Caucasus , a landscape jewel in the crown of the USSR , until recently little known to Westerners other than a few privileged mountaineers lucky enough to be invited to climb there . |
| 17 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 18 | Would you be kind enough to forward the address of this seemingly delightful establishment . |
| 19 | Others have been half-trained on slippery floors , where they worry about keeping their feet , yet are yelled at for failing to respond quickly enough to commands . |
| 20 | This alone was surely enough to doom the venture from the outset . |
| 21 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 22 | Her powerful and eloquent singing really does not need to be supplemented by low-register Sprechstimme ; one can see the point , but Puccini is near enough to raw melodrama without such mannerism . |
| 23 | In his statement , Subba Row , who is 57 years old , stressed that he believes that five years in office is sufficient , and that negotiating the International Cricket Conference agreement on South Africa , announced in January , was quite enough to be remembered by . |
| 24 | Am I not cuddly enough to be called ? ’ — Irate woman delegate . |
| 25 | After all , the situation bulges with seedy potential : a man about to have sex with a girl young enough to be his daughter is suddenly forced to pose as her father . |
| 26 | The result is neither comprehensive enough to inform nor selective enough to fully entertain . |
| 27 | That man , who was old enough to be her father , had ‘ completely destroyed her trust , ’ he said . |
| 28 | All this may seem quite enough to be going on with for ordinary mortals , but , amazingly , Muddle informs us ‘ Southwell is just a guinea-pig for Telford ’ . |
| 29 | So perhaps their disappearance was a brave bid to shake off that old image ( two years is long enough to be forgotten in teen land ) and appeal to a broader church . |
| 30 | Soon the chicks were big enough to be out and about , and once they had left their mother , they began to exhibit her wild characteristics , wandering recklessly far up the fields into territory frequented by foxes . |