Example sentences of "enough to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application for a grant should be made at the same time as the application for an audition in order that you can be sure of your position should you be fortunate enough to be offered a place . |
| 2 | Perhaps directors in particular need to realise how much their vitality means to the continuing performance — that it is n't enough to be left up on a stage merely doing it night after night . |
| 3 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 4 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 5 | Was young Donald sound enough to be sent to contact other families ? |
| 6 | As for Bulwark , it was severely damaged , but valuable enough to be repaired . |
| 7 | This is , of course , the Caucasus , a landscape jewel in the crown of the USSR , until recently little known to Westerners other than a few privileged mountaineers lucky enough to be invited to climb there . |
| 8 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 9 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 10 | In his statement , Subba Row , who is 57 years old , stressed that he believes that five years in office is sufficient , and that negotiating the International Cricket Conference agreement on South Africa , announced in January , was quite enough to be remembered by . |
| 11 | Am I not cuddly enough to be called ? ’ — Irate woman delegate . |
| 12 | After all , the situation bulges with seedy potential : a man about to have sex with a girl young enough to be his daughter is suddenly forced to pose as her father . |
| 13 | That man , who was old enough to be her father , had ‘ completely destroyed her trust , ’ he said . |
| 14 | All this may seem quite enough to be going on with for ordinary mortals , but , amazingly , Muddle informs us ‘ Southwell is just a guinea-pig for Telford ’ . |
| 15 | So perhaps their disappearance was a brave bid to shake off that old image ( two years is long enough to be forgotten in teen land ) and appeal to a broader church . |
| 16 | Soon the chicks were big enough to be out and about , and once they had left their mother , they began to exhibit her wild characteristics , wandering recklessly far up the fields into territory frequented by foxes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Ramseys wanted a house big enough to be able to entertain the clergy and their wives in their own home . |
| 19 | This is only a possibility when the songs are popular enough to be published in this form . |
| 20 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 21 | ‘ Some people just can not bear to come in second , ’ he said loudly enough to be heard before getting into the car , reversing it round and driving away . |
| 22 | He worked to revive her and eventually she recovered enough to be wrapped and put on the sledge . |
| 23 | It 's easy to drive , quick enough to be fun , with the reassurance of solid , almost farmyard engineering under the skin to remove any worries about making it work for a living . |
| 24 | It was not enough to be the best in the world at your chosen sport , as Joe Davis found to his cost . |
| 25 | You were fit enough to be out on a country walk at seven-thirty this morning . |
| 26 | The pilot dipped the nose of the aircraft and dropped down behind the van , close enough to be able to read its registration number : only a delivery van from the nearby town . |
| 27 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 28 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 29 | He was good enough to be in six Walker Cup teams , sufficiently well heeled to be of independent means and later a Captain of the Royal and Ancient . |
| 30 | The number of signatories to the letter — and up to 50 other House Democrats might agree with its terms , as well as perhaps 25–30 of the 56 Democratic senators — means that a ‘ UN ’ resolution could pass Congress only with a majority small enough to be politically unacceptable , and might well fail . |