Example sentences of "it be [adj] enough [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's hot enough as it is in this place .
2 Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any .
3 it 's strong enough cos , cos when you take it off there
4 And I 've been , yeah it 's easy enough but
5 I said to her when , when he was finished I said it 's good enough cos you 're sure what you you 're doing but I said
6 It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language .
7 It 's bad enough that Timothy 's mooning over her like a schoolboy , wet behind the ears .
8 It 's , it 's bad enough but
9 so it 's bad enough if they gather them in the gathering them in the barrel like , the barrel bit , but not the sort of
10 Well fancy being a like that all that time it 's bad enough when you 've been out on a binge and you get that headache then .
11 The people in wheelchairs , it 's fair enough that they ca n't get their own dinner , but they should at least go to the back of the queue like we have to , but they push straight to the front .
12 Well it 's true enough that some school days are happy ( for example , the school day before half-term holidays , the school day before Christmas holidays , the school day the boiler blew up and we all got sent home early etc , etc ! ! ) .
13 It 's big enough and besides yer 'll be near the closets when yer need 'em . ’
14 It is true enough that one could not start one 's language learning from the laws of physics and logic ; much is needed before we can even begin to understand these .
15 It is true enough that there is often such a nuance ( see Quirk , Greenbaum , Leech , Svartvik , 1972 ) , but the proposal will not turn out to be satisfactory .
16 It is obvious enough that a neocortex would be useless if all its neurons responded to the same or strongly similar features , so decorrelation is useful for this purpose , but it also confers another great advantage .
17 Subject to the contrary agreement of the partners : ( 5 ) Every partner may take part in the management of the partnership business ( 7 ) No partner may be introduced as a partner without the consent of all existing partners ( 8 ) Any difference arising as to ordinary matters connected with the partnership business may be decided by a majority of the partners , but no change may be made in the nature of the partnership business without the consent of all existing partners It is obvious enough that if a partner is to be held responsible for the acts of his co-partners committed in the name of the firm he should in principle have : ( 1 ) unrestricted access to information about those acts ; ( 2 ) every right , indeed a duty , to assume personal responsibility ( equally with his co-partners ) for the conduct of the firm 's affairs ; and ( 3 ) the right ( by exercise of a veto ) to prevent any act for which he is unwilling to accept liability .
18 It is obvious enough if you happen to be going through a particularly traumatic time , but what about when you are doing all those ordinary things like reading , writing , driving or pursuing any so-called ‘ relaxing ’ activity ?
19 It may well be that the sons of barons and knights jostled with Sceva and Ollo in the markets of the twelfth century ; and it is likely enough that there were more rich men 's sons than poor men 's sons wearing the alderman 's robes .
20 Bearing in mind the evolving nature of the project itself with regard to guidelines on the format of proposals , the need for detailed spending plans and so on , it is natural enough that the shape and membership of the library committees in the first wave of schools were initially rather vague , the committees developing into more clearly constituted bodies as project development got under way .
21 It is clear enough that nothing can be defined simply in negative terms .
22 Nevertheless , it is clear enough that the realities of pre-war football do not find agreement with postwar nostalgia .
23 While it is clear enough that by 1519 the Household system badly needed reform , it is less clear that the Edwardian system existed only on paper .
24 The contemporary evidence is fragmentary , but it is clear enough that the strike was the occasion for certain master printers to revive the idea of employing women .
25 But it is notable enough that the deal is worth 3.6 times the annual $125m sales value of these products .
26 A big , glossy hardback with lavish colour pictures , it is handsome enough but now that so many general cookbooks include first-class vegetarian recipes it seems an expensive extra .
27 Despite ingenious if strenuous attempts ( Grice , 1975 ; Ayer , 1972 ) to present " if " statements in general as being material conditionals at bottom , it is evident enough that our If F then s is not true solely in virtue of the antecedent and consequent being both true or both false , or false and true respectively .
28 It is bad enough as it is at the moment .
29 It is bad enough if you corrupt the man , but if you corrupt the woman , you poison the waters of life at the very fountain . ’
30 It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant .
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