Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] enough [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jumping up off a seat is easy enough because almost any action will make things better . |
| 2 | If the appreciation is high enough and the price is possible then a purchase results . |
| 3 | Hutchesons/Aloysians ' victory by 31-13 at Union Park against Corstorphine was not enough and they were edged out of the race on points difference . |
| 4 | If sweet reason and turning a blind eye are not enough and you feel you have to use some form of punishment , do so without excessive anger or physical force . |
| 5 | Kinnear , who has had enquiries for midfielders Warren Barton and Robbie Earle , said : ‘ I want to hang on to my players as long as possible — my job 's hard enough as it is . |
| 6 | If the stress is high enough and he is basically insecure — his adult has not turned off his child 's ‘ all my fault ’ — his child takes over with a ‘ nothing to do with you ’ response . |
| 7 | The new Agricultural Minister , John Gummer , has decided that voluntary restraint is not enough and is planning legislation now . |
| 8 | And it was a you know it was a great happiness and release to shed a million other activities and flying in all directions thinking the acting was n't enough and I was n't enough for acting . |
| 9 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 10 | Although the rumours of the Queen 's supposed adulteries were real enough and , given the prevailing double standard in sexual matters , much more shocking than the stories of the King 's mistresses , none the less if either of them ever had a romantic love affair it is likely to have been Henry rather than Eleanor . |
| 11 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |
| 12 | If the Christians do eventually deliver a true case of satanic child abuse — and , who knows , God forbid , they may , for satanists are real enough and a bit of copycat crime is surely due after all this publicity — it will be seen by many to validate all their arguments . |
| 13 | A sensible dog soon learns that barking is not enough and will attract his master 's attention in some other way . |
| 14 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 15 | Yet this ‘ black and white ’ approach is not enough and he goes further : each text , Asheim argues , should be assessed as a whole — to do otherwise would be fair neither to the book nor to the author . |
| 16 | The shoemaker 's daughter was pretty enough but poorly dressed with a Welsh shawl over her shoulders and not even a hat to cover her hair . |
| 17 | Call me selfish , but life was hard enough as it was , without someone else demoralising me . |
| 18 | It was clearly time for political scientists to reassess their pluralist perspective on interest groups : groups were real enough but were they still a " good " thing ? |
| 19 | Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities . |
| 20 | Losing your erection is easy enough if you store up the right anti-erotic thoughts . |
| 21 | Intuition is not enough when a school has to give assurances of quality and has to prove that it can control that quality . |
| 22 | The official told me that the form was not enough and that I needed a letter from my dad saying he lived alone . |
| 23 | At the same time , we recognise that unity is not enough and that we need to discuss strategies for action , ways of mobilising , organising etc . |
| 24 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 25 | The proper name for cretinism is hypothyroidism , which means hypo is not enough as in hypothermia , thyroid means thyroid , -ism , it 's the three things they check for , can I pull that down ? |
| 26 | Attendance at the careers convention once each year is not enough and will in any case only reach a small proportion of the school children who may be contemplating their future . |
| 27 | For cattle , a single strand is generally enough if the shock is strong enough and the animals properly trained to respect it . |
| 28 | adventure was probably enough that erm I would have flown a kite and one or two things otherwise ! |
| 29 | The views of the Library Association on censorship are , on paper , sound , but what the News International ban demonstrated was that a simple reliance on policy statements and codes of professional conduct was not enough and never will be enough to confront library censorship . |
| 30 | But prayer was n't enough and Celia and Dermot Murphy died . |