Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise was loud enough for her to swivel herself round , prop her chin on her hand and stare . |
| 2 | In that year Cook claimed that he had one million clients and the business was stable enough for him to settle clients ' bills , but he was not actually running inclusive tours yet . |
| 3 | In truth , there was little else for them to do but work , if one disregarded the gilded nincompoops who surrounded the Prince of Wales . |
| 4 | He was upset enough for me to say , ‘ I 'll get it tomorrow after ‘ Will you ? ’ |
| 5 | He found a cab immediately and the traffic was light enough for him to get to Heathrow with plenty of time to spare , in spite of the stringent security control that the American airlines now insisted on . |
| 6 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 7 | Jip tells of something he has seen written on a wall : ‘ If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand we 'd be so simple we could n't ’ ( 88 ) . |
| 8 | That was the result of her sleeping badly on the ‘ plane , and was serious enough for her to wear a neck scarf during her week of practice , but it caused no problems once the competition began . |
| 9 | That Throgmorton had died by poison was hard enough for them to take in , when all had assumed sudden acute stomach illness . |
| 10 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 11 | It was large enough for him to have a grand study with five windows ; yet small enough for him to discourage visitors without obvious discourtesy . |
| 12 | It was long enough for him to persuade the Royal College of Music that his talent was worth taking seriously . |
| 13 | I found the sack very comfortable considering the simplicity of the back system and was pleased to find that it was long enough for me to use the waist belt properly . |
| 14 | Nevertheless that blip was long enough for someone to make a tidy profit . |
| 15 | I was by no means ill , and the ground by the road was firm enough for me to get to the Land Rover without too much of a struggle . |
| 16 | ‘ Ashley was disappointed to be left out and felt that his record over the past few seasons was good enough for him to have kept his place . |
| 17 | I was able to climb to about 1,200′ at which height I felt it was safe enough for me to control any sudden change of attitude when I disengaged the auto pilot . |
| 18 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 19 | On the morning of November 18th , when Wilson stood in the street to wave goodbye to the Brownings , it was hot enough for her to want to move into the shade as soon as they had gone . |
| 20 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 21 | The Dartford Tunnel was quiet enough for him to sneak through without loss of time . |
| 22 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |