Example sentences of "was enough [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 2 | An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 . |
| 3 | But the DTI did not appreciate that the accountants ' study missed the central point of the Department 's inquiry : the auditors were not asked to answer the simple question of whether there was enough money in Barlow Clowes ' coffers to cover the amount owned to investors . |
| 4 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 5 | B and L's counsel argued that the position was changed when the receivership ended , in the sense that all liabilities had been identified and there was enough money to settle them . |
| 6 | Naturally , there was enough money for Ago … money , money , money … not a squeak out of the bank manager that week . |
| 7 | Most important of all , there was enough money to set up an office as party headquarters at 190 Vauxhall Bridge Road . |
| 8 | But there was enough money to compensate farmers , and claims were being worked on as fast as possible . |
| 9 | There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while . |
| 10 | She had dyed black hair that looked like cotton wool dipped in liquid boot polish , her face was thin and feral-looking , and through the flimsy see-through negligee George could see that under her arms was enough hair to make a pair of identical wigs . |
| 11 | At the plant itself , there was enough concern for a special protective suit to be designed . |
| 12 | But I was n't sure that was enough compensation for the pain . |
| 13 | However , in practice there was enough choice of speeds and the steps in between each were fine . |
| 14 | There was enough starlight coming in the window to make out the dim shapes of bunkbeds and rucksacks . |
| 15 | What would 've happened if absolute egalitarianism had been pursued and absolute egalitarianism had worked and there was enough land for everybody to come up to a middle peasant status and you 'd created an absolutely e equal society ? |
| 16 | Creeping underneath the ledge , she found that there was enough space for her to nestle safely while she slept off the exhaustion of the last few days . |
| 17 | There was enough space for a retired Brigadier , who handled ecclesiastical appointments , and a higher executive officer in charge of the Crown Office , dealing with ceremonial and the passing of documents under the Great Seal . |
| 18 | This is the trouble with compromises ; there was enough dialogue to string the musical numbers together , and the abridgement guarded against tedium , but the result is neither one thing nor the other . |
| 19 | The Shield insisted that there was enough conviction and enthusiasm among women to carry further legislation , despite the blatant obstructionism from men at the Home Office and in Parliament . |
| 20 | Director of product marketing for engines , A J Brown , realises that , when compared with other database vendors , the Menlo Park , California-based company is late in announcing its move to NT , but said it wanted to be sure there was enough customer demand . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , while director of product marketing for engines , A J Brown , realises that , when compared with other database vendors , the Menlo Park , California-based company is late in announcing its move to NT , he said it wanted to be sure there was enough customer demand . |
| 22 | Three of the instances of maladministration related to the licensing of the Chesh ire-based savings group in 1984/85 , where the Ombudsman felt that there was enough evidence to have ordered Barlow Clowes to cease op erations . |
| 23 | Firstly , it could be argued that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal prosecution , and the Crown Office would need more if this was to proceed ; and secondly , that there was enough evidence to make it impossible to drop the case , but more was needed to make it substantial . |
| 24 | It may well be that the Jewish leaders did not consider the event to be a trial but more of an interrogation to see if there was enough evidence to take Jesus to the Roman Governor . |
| 25 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 26 | ‘ She 'd put Peter Pan collars on them , so I took them off again , and fortunately there was enough stuff left to finish the neck lines . ’ |
| 27 | The Emperor , in sorrow rather than anger , deplored the perversity of the Parisians , but he was enough man of the world to know that gratitude is a scarce commodity , and the Parisian populace , professionally sceptic , had no regard for Imperial philanthropy . |
| 28 | They were faced with bankruptcy but there was enough expertise within the company to take a gamble on a change of direction . |
| 29 | Was enough window space or in-store display given to the product to support the advertisement ? |
| 30 | And there was enough interest in the sale to prove that home grown Hereford cattle are well able to beat off competition from abroad . |