Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Possibly the greatest compliment that could be paid to the PFF — and that accidentally — was near the end of the war when the Command was strong enough for each Group to mount an attack on a single target , but generally supported by the full paraphernalia of hard-won pathfinding techniques .
2 But the rivalry was friendly enough for all teams to congratulate each other on their performances .
3 It was broad enough for three carriages .
4 It was unfit even for grazing purposes and its main function in human terms was that its near edges provided a useful if unofficial dumping ground for anything and everything .
5 He said it was good enough for other companies and that he would n't shave it off .
6 It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will .
7 It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will .
8 To travel 6 km there and another 6 km back was far enough for most people in one day .
9 It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect .
10 The parapet which ran behind the wall was wide enough for two carts to be driven side by side along its length .
11 The Labour leader in the Lords , Lord Cledwyn , asked : If Vietnam 's human rights record was bad enough for British aid to be cut off in 1979 , why was it now good enough to merit forced repatriation ?
12 He was silent then for long moments , clearly far , far away .
13 Such features are not consistent with the idea that the peninsula was built by longshore drift from the east , unless such drift was active only for short periods while during the intervening time the drift was predominantly from the west .
14 As to the monthly payments , we have already said that we see no sufficient grounds for disturbing the judge 's findings that the receipts of sums by the plaintiffs from the defendant after Miss Guile left the flat represented no more than was due from him on the footing that he was liable only for monthly payments of £86.66 .
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