Example sentences of "with just enough " in BNC.

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1 It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ .
2 The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there .
3 The engine is started on petrol , with just enough suction to bring the gasifier into operation .
4 Thanks to what Breeze had earned , they were able to rake up the fares — and now here they were , on their way to a remote Devonshire village with just enough money to keep them going for a fortnight or so .
5 This means double-bagging , with just enough water to cover the fish 's back , and oxygen from a cylinder .
6 1 Place the apples , cloves , sugar and lemon juice in a pan with just enough water to prevent them from sticking .
7 But it was cooler in Wagner 's and the ice-cream was deliciously cold to the tongue and delicately flavoured with just enough vanilla .
8 Place the fish in an aquarium with just enough depth of water for it so swim in and increase the temperature to 5–6°C above what you would normally keep it at .
9 To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment .
10 The very poorest , who depend on state benefits , will be relieved of paying much of the charge , but those with just enough income to be denied this relief will suffer severely .
11 He 's also intrigued by a proposal for a desert with just enough vegetation to support a group of nomadic tribes , and exactly the right mix of privation to enable these tribes to develop a monotheistic religion .
12 Scattered among them were groups of palapas — the tiny Mayan houses made of sticks with roofs of palm thatch , each with just enough room to swing two hammocks .
13 It required sewing together , then cropping , scouring with just enough caustic soda so that the fabric would not tear , and bleaching with peroxide , which then had to be well washed out .
14 With just enough power to give Joanna steerage way I felt my way slowly upstream .
15 She was careful not to disturb the make-up she had applied secretly before retiring , and checked it quickly in a polished bronze mirror that lay next to the bowl , the deep yellow glow from the oil lamp she had left burning providing her with just enough light to see that none had smudged .
16 with just enough room to swing a monkey ,
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