Example sentences of "[adj] enough to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is easy enough to be obscure and esoteric , much more difficult to be lucid and memorable to all . |
| 32 | One can put up all kinds of contributory explanations for it , but none seems central enough to be convincing . |
| 33 | And it 's , it 's , it 's vague enough to be able to do that . |
| 34 | However , the picture in the United States alone looks consistent enough to be significant . |
| 35 | No worker , he suggested , was clever enough to be able both to perform their own job and to analyse the best way of doing it . |
| 36 | If my right hon. Friend were fortunate enough to be resident in Scotland , he would find that about 89 per cent . |
| 37 | When a heatwave occurs — unless we are fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but laze around — many people become increasingly bad-tempered . |
| 38 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 39 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 40 | The ideal of providing an adequate and satisfying secondary education for all ( and not just for the few who were fortunate enough to be able to pass a selection test at 11 ) seemed close to realisation . |
| 41 | ‘ The focus of my own emotions , ’ said Ian , ‘ is not , as I think Julia 's is , my family , whom I have always been fortunate enough to be able to take for granted , but rather is it the Church , about which I 'm unduly passionate . |
| 42 | ‘ Well , it 's improbable enough to be true . |
| 43 | A new and successful innovation was the evolution of stemless crinoids — some of these acquired pelagic habits , and during the Cretaceous the genera Marsupites and Uintacrinus ( see p.79 ) were widespread enough to be useful marker fossils . |
| 44 | But an FA spokesman said : ‘ Graham is not worried because he feels that if the game was being played at Wembley today , they would all be fit enough to be available for selection . ’ |
| 45 | For those of us lucky enough to be able to read and play music , it certainly can be , fore the mind can then override textual aberrations of this kind ( providing they are not too excessive ) . |
| 46 | In later life I was lucky enough to be able to afford flying lessons , even though they cost a fortune at £5 an hour ! |
| 47 | A baby tethered one in the most relentless way , even a mother who was lucky enough to be able to leave her infant in the hands of others . |
| 48 | It is the home of the game and I was lucky enough to be able to mix cricket with my engineering work . |
| 49 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 50 | If you were lucky enough to be able to pay it then you had the dividend that came along with that . |
| 51 | The film-makers are , of course , lucky enough to be able to shoot the film in the very same workshops where Bob earned his living . |
| 52 | She says I think everyone should have the freedom to be able to travel as and when they choose , not just the people lucky enough to be able to afford a car . |
| 53 | I think everyone should have the freedom to be able to travel as and when they choose — not just the people who are lucky enough to be able to afford a car |
| 54 | SOME people are lucky enough to be able , within limits , to control their salary . |
| 55 | But actually it 's the reverse , since it 's a struggle to get detached and find a perspective that balances my own inside knowledge against the spectrum of differing views of their fans , detractors and those unfortunate enough to be indifferent to them . |
| 56 | Constanze was clearly not ill enough to be incapable of a little mild flirtation ! |
| 57 | Large enough to be able to offer supervision in most areas of social policy and social work , the department 's commitment to research creates a very congenial environment for research students who will encounter a wide range of substantive interests and methodological expertise . |
| 58 | These net-like bryozoa form colonies large enough to be conspicuous fossils . |
| 59 | In a full drive or a similar distance shot , this ‘ tension bending stiffness ’ is , in the 40 milliseconds ( ms ) before impact , large enough to be comparable with the stiffness measured by the manufacturers ' tests as part of the shaft itself . |
| 60 | She felt hostile enough to be able to press going to Rome that week . |