Example sentences of "[adj] enough for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement . |
| 2 | She was beginning to feel very hungry , hardly strong enough for a serious talk about religion . |
| 3 | Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs . |
| 4 | ‘ T would have been easy enough for a determined boy to climb the wall and follow them . |
| 5 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 6 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 7 | Nato has also been used for the neck and fingerboard and while the overall appearance of the SW213 wo n't compete with more expensive instruments it 's quite good enough for a 100 quid guitar . |
| 8 | " Good enough for a working theory , anyway . " |
| 9 | ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 10 | Still , Mel was good enough for a first team place in our first year back and did OK . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Bob rose to the challenge and in January 1991 his first task was to replace hundreds of original magnesium allow rivets , which were good enough for a static rebuild , but not if the aircraft was to fly again . |
| 12 | However , the colour quality is not good enough for a conventional printing system to reproduce , what that needs is colour separations . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's good enough for a retired archaeologist should be good enough for a Greek cryptologist , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 14 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 15 | DO N'T WORRY IF YOUR WALLET IS N'T FAT ENOUGH FOR A READY-MADE LAN STATION . |
| 16 | It all might be serviceable enough for a Polish field-worker to wear during the potato harvest , but it was surely no serious proposal for festive dressing . |
| 17 | In the calculation of moduli , whether the " chain " modulus or the bulk modulus , it has been assumed that the displacements are small enough for a Hookean spring to be the model for the interaction . |
| 18 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 19 | Underneath you 'll find an oven big enough for a family-sized turkey . |
| 20 | Well I do n't think they 're big enough for a big tent , I mean one is fairly long , but er I do n't |
| 21 | Oh yes and and then it got too big for them they are no longer able to control it they 're not big enough for a big power two very big big brothers but they could n't run a company the size they built it . |
| 22 | Big enough for a giant X to have mysteriously appeared in mid-town Manhattan and another not a million miles from his flagship shop in Brooklyn . |
| 23 | It was just big enough for Angalo and Masklin , and big enough for a terrified Gurder with the two of them pulling on his arms . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , that chicken coop 's not big enough for a one-man transmat . ’ |
| 25 | The symbolism was potent enough for a hundred generations to keep the chalk clear |
| 26 | On the third attempt James Dougal brought the lifeboat close enough for a heaving line to be thrown to the divers . |
| 27 | It 's bad enough for a young person going into hospital for an operation but when you get to her age you deserve a bit more care . |
| 28 | Anita Brookner 's novels are London-based , and they revive in their concise and elegant style , in fictions at once grim and yet subtly self-mocking , the Brontëan theme of lonely , loving heroines more sensitive than beautiful — ‘ she was attractive enough for a clever woman , but it was principally as a clever woman that she was attractive ’ — and , as in the Brontës , without the solace of a happy ending . |