Example sentences of "enough [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Life is bloody awful enough without being unhappy . ’ |
| 2 | She had examined each one carefully , discarding then re-examining until she was satisfied that the gift was rich enough without being ostentatious , that the stones , the colours , were right for the girl . |
| 3 | The colour contrast is marked enough to be noticeable even with × 7 . |
| 4 | Yet even in 1360 the French royal council did not feel weak enough to be obliged to accept the terms ceded by the captive king in London . |
| 5 | They are short enough to be accessible to the pre-intermediate learner , and students will be pleased with their progress in understanding spoken English . |
| 6 | The area was about four hours away from Edinburgh or Glasgow — near enough to be accessible for weekends , far enough to be considered remote . |
| 7 | John Hutt was in debt , not to any great extent , but enough to be embarrassing . |
| 8 | The 8.16 being late enough to be posthumous , we departed to the Coachman ( North Eastern Hotel as was ) for sustenance and lamentation . |
| 9 | Those Merseyside bastards are hellbent on destroyin' themselves and every poor management sod unlucky enough to be involved with the plant . |
| 10 | Several had considered maths or engineering , or both ; maths was generally dismissed as ‘ too theoretical ’ , while engineering was dismissed as ‘ too applied ’ : physics was held to be the perfect happy medium — applied enough to be ‘ relevant ’ ( a favourite adjective amongst both the science and the arts students ) , but theoretical enough to be stimulating and demanding . |
| 11 | She wanted to know why these paths existed ; there were several of them , not much used , but used often enough to be distinguishable . |
| 12 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 13 | Never enough to be serious . |
| 14 | Now it 's fair enough to be cautious when two big men are attacking somebody else , but I would n't say it was unreasonable to expect someone to make a telephone call and alert the police . |
| 15 | Shrub roses Most , but by no means all , shrub roses rule themselves out of small and average size gardens by their dimensions , but some are small enough to be captivating and defy rejection . |
| 16 | In the north , too , but they differ enough to be recognisable . ’ |
| 17 | Not enough to be offensive , but enough to make the older woman sparkle in return . |
| 18 | He withheld the signal until the range was close enough to be deadly , and the stocky Welsh ponies were stretching their frenzied necks and rigid nostrils for the impact , and then flung up his arm , and waited for the tremendous thrumming in the air , that maddening , intoxicating sound like a thousand wild geese all taking flight at once . |
| 19 | ‘ I think I 'm old enough to be young now , ’ said Catriona . |
| 20 | If she was well enough to be nasty , there could n't be much wrong at all . |
| 21 | Is it enough to be competent and competitive in the music market ? |
| 22 | Back in the kitchen , he cleaned the edenwort and the okra and chopped them up small enough to be unrecognizable . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you want to stay ? ’ she asked , still sober enough to be anxious that there should be no misunderstandings . |
| 24 | In 1962 it was still new enough to be modern but poor enough to be half worn out . |
| 25 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 28 | And if he was still alert enough to be insulting , his wound might not be so bad after all . |
| 29 | A good essay , like a good kilt/skirt , is long enough to be decent but short enough to be interesting . |
| 30 | Evidence that much of the interior is liquid also comes from the properties of hydrogen , to be outlined in section 9.3.2 , and from further observations , particularly one outlined next , which indicates that the interior is hot enough to be liquid . |