Example sentences of "be enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're enough to make a saint lose her temper , ’ Robbie told him , trying vainly to escape his hold . |
| 2 | The two cities indirectly hold more than 17 per cent and 10 per cent of MBB which could be enough to stop the merger , observers said . |
| 3 | As an official leaflet explained : ‘ All the organisations which ask you to fill up this Ballot paper believe that a boycott on trade and credit would in practice always be enough to stop any nation from starting a war . ’ |
| 4 | Just seeing an advertisement for cake or chocolates in a magazine or on television will be enough to push you into the kitchen and straight into the biscuit tin . |
| 5 | THE measures should be enough to push shares to an all-time high . |
| 6 | The criteria are the same as before , so the desire to pursue still further the questioning of the suspect may be enough to justify the court 's sanction for this additional detention . |
| 7 | I thought it would be enough to call on her loyalty , it used always to be enough . |
| 8 | A goal from one of the modern day Armstrongs could be enough to settle it in Dublin , or at least contribute to a ‘ result . ’ |
| 9 | It will not be enough to define a term as a " condition " or " warranty " , for a court may decide that the parties did not intend any breach of a term labelled a " condition " to give rise to a right to withdraw , and thus disregard the label given to the term by the parties ( Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |
| 10 | The way he 's been treated since he came to Elland Road would be enough to do anyone 's confidence in . |
| 11 | He says it 's a good idea , but is worried the money being offered wo n't be enough to do the job . |
| 12 | A few coppers would be enough to loosen her tongue . |
| 13 | Were the internal stat to ham on ( not that I have ever had this problem with the Uno internal , but I was a Girl Guide ! ) then 200 watts would not be enough to cause serious ( if any ) overheating in such a large tank . |
| 14 | Just my dainty little hankie will be enough to clean up that kind of a smeared speck . ’ |
| 15 | It should , however , be enough to say that the Enigma machine looked like a large , clumsy , old-fashioned typewriter . |
| 16 | An Int test ( Cryptography +10 ) allows these names to be decoded ; there are no exact addresses , but an entry such as ‘ Schwenninger of N. , four unbaptised infants ’ could be enough to track down the supplier in Nuln . |
| 17 | The effect of the GC step in the context of GGGCCC motif is apparently about as large as that of AA/TT , i.e. it seems to be enough to cancel the macroscopic curvature of helically phased A-tracts . |
| 18 | One small drought would be enough to drive a farming family into debt . |
| 19 | TAXES can be enough to drive you up the pole — and today we 're offering you the chance to ease the pain of paying . |
| 20 | That may be enough to see the RAF through the present war . |
| 21 | It could be that support from the 13 Ulster Unionist MPs likely to be elected on Thursday would be enough to see Mr Major home . |
| 22 | A repeat of anything like that form will be enough to see off his modest rivals . |
| 23 | On this occasion , however , his calm appeared to have been ruffled by Dr Dunstaple 's words and he replied with a note of impatience in his voice : " If any evidence were needed it would be enough to see what happens when a weak saline solution is injected into the veins of a patient in the condition of collapse . |
| 24 | The Signature model breaks with tradition by having a moderately stupendous neck featuring both flaming and birdseye figuring ( Leo Fender never approved of figured necks , since there 'd never be enough to go round and he disliked any form of elitism ) while the JD offers a dead plain , workmanlike affair . |
| 25 | Previously there had been fighting when the food was served because of the fear that there would not be enough to go around ; now there were orderly queues . |
| 26 | Since mallards do not dive there was presumably no great competition between the two species for food but with over 100 birds on such a small stretch of water it was difficult to see how there could be enough to go round . |
| 27 | Oh I do n't think it 'll be smoky , I do n't think there 'll be enough to go round to make it smoky you not , you 're not gon na take that in then ? |
| 28 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 29 | Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two . |
| 30 | Why , that would be enough to take me to see my nephew Tim and his children at Gridford ! |