Example sentences of "be enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 2 | I worried all night , lest the listing in the local paper and in the Order of St John country handbook had not been enough . |
| 3 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 4 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 5 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 6 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 7 | Had all the training and preparation been enough , they wondered ? |
| 8 | A swift exercise of constitutionally legitimate force should have been enough . |
| 9 | It seems to have been enough , as was the amount delivered by the big but war-disrupted relief programme that followed the 1987 drought . |
| 10 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 11 | Dayenu : ‘ it would have been enough ! ’ part of a prayer in which grateful Jews thank God for his manifold blessings . |
| 12 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 13 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 14 | It would n't have been enough , though . |
| 15 | In the 1960s £2-£3 would have been enough . |
| 16 | Yet that would not have been enough if President Bush had not thrown away the election and the keys to the White House with it . |
| 17 | The brief sleep on the way had n't been enough . |
| 18 | That may have been enough . |
| 19 | But for aborigine campaigners gestures have not been enough . |
| 20 | He was so good-looking , wonderfully handsome and young and sweet , and that should have been enough , but it was not . |
| 21 | But the main reason why defensiveness is not enough , is that it has never been enough . |
| 22 | ‘ Poor lass , it 's been enough , me coming out wi ’ sum mat like that wi'out warning . |
| 23 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 24 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 25 | But , in itself , this would never have been enough . |
| 26 | The knowledge that someone , somewhere in Government circles , had known that what he 'd seen and experienced had really happened , should have been enough in itself to send Jimmy into a righteous rage . |
| 27 | ‘ But one would have been enough . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If you 'd just offered to come , ’ I wrote , ‘ that would have been enough . ’ |
| 29 | Her new partner alleviated the terrible loneliness caused by my father 's death after 50 years of marriage and literally gave her something to get up for in the morning , when planting tulips would n't have been enough . |
| 30 | I mean the one department you would have thought would have been enough . |