Example sentences of "been enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reaction might have been enough to make her call a halt to the whole thing . |
| 2 | But Panamanain exiles in the US complained that a small show of force by the US might have been enough to tip the balance in the rebels ' favour . |
| 3 | Their financial situation would not have been enough to drive them away . |
| 4 | Meteorologists have confirmed that , for the first time in years , the prevailing winter winds were easterly , and a navy hydrographer said the surface area of the submerged craft would have been enough to act as a sail and counter the current . |
| 5 | But there has been enough good news to feed the belief that the strategy largely implemented by the Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief , Andrew Knight , had borne fruit . |
| 6 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 7 | Because there had never truly been enough height and the angle of the ceiling was so acute , nothing was ever quite symmetrical and balanced , and cupboards and wall space were eccentric and fortuitous . |
| 8 | Western leaders were content to rest on their laurels , convinced that Nato 's ‘ steadfastness ’ had been crucial in bringing the Communist bloc in from the cold , that Western prosperity had been enough to convince the East of the hollowness of Marxism . |
| 9 | If Sir Kenneth had done a better piece of work , and been disliked by the City simply for being too tough in representing the interests of investors , would that have been enough to keep his job ? |
| 10 | According to Edward Altman , that would have been enough to compensate for an annual default rate of 5–6% — around three times actual default rates — so the returns looked delicious . |
| 11 | Ending legal segregation has not been enough to end segregation itself . |
| 12 | The food these suburban Texans threw away would have been enough to feed the whole of Latin America . |
| 13 | The one pee , he supposed , had been enough to produce three sons at two-yearly intervals . |
| 14 | But the industry feels there have been enough new and creative uses of the medium for the lack of recognition to become suspicious . |
| 15 | Another persuasive defence of economic reforms yesterday by Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , may have been enough to have seen off remaining threats . |
| 16 | True , the two countries ' systems of choosing a leader and choosing a government are different , but there have been enough historic parallels to make Americans peer keenly at British elections . |
| 17 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 18 | The mere question had been enough to provoke suspicion . |
| 19 | It is a matter for speculation whether or not this would have been enough to cut the ground from underneath the feet of the DHAC , but in any case the situation had been radically transformed by the 5 October march and by the prorogation of Londonderry Corporation announced on 22 November 1968 by the O'Neill government . |
| 20 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |
| 21 | The prospect of an armed mob , including that monstrous regiment of ‘ wyfes ’ , must have been enough to bring on an immediate headache . |
| 22 | Of course , Westland and all the associated issues about the harmonisation and rationalisation of the European defence industrial base are important , but I doubt that one specific case would in itself have been enough to become a resigning Issue . |
| 23 | However , in both these instances the commercial pressure of the campaigning groups has been enough to effect change . |
| 24 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 25 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 26 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 27 | But in many cases the threat of legal action has been enough to stop those few shopkeepers who attempt to profit from glue and solvent sales to solvent misusers . |
| 28 | But six months ago none of this would have been enough to make him invite her company for longer than was politely necessary . |
| 29 | That alone would have lasted a week and been enough to take in and remember . |
| 30 | The general comfort , feel and fit of its shoes has generally been enough to attract a regular and loyal band of supports . |