Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the evidence which we have is enough to show that the situation in Merovingian Francia may not have been so very different from Visigothic Spain , where kings are well known to have been closely involved in the major ecclesiastical councils of the kingdom . |
| 3 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 4 | It had been enough to set Freddie 's agile mind working , and he grinned expectantly to himself as he heard the watchman 's voice . |
| 5 | Until now it had been enough to produce smocks , nightdresses and long dresses in cotton for stores which would carry supplementary ranges by other manufacturers in different departments . |
| 6 | But it had been enough to ensure him , at least pictorially , a vicarious immortality . |
| 7 | During the Second World War , in order to maintain Allied access to the Mediterranean , it had been enough to ensure Spain 's neutrality . |
| 8 | She did n't actually run from the room to get the hot water and salt ; whatever he had taken was a gesture : it had been enough to knock him out , but it certainly would n't kill . |