Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it all right for you to say sixty-fifth floor ? ’ |
| 2 | It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God . |
| 3 | Even he had definite symptomatic and endoscopic benefit from additional radiotherapy and his general conditioned improved enough for him to undergo successful surgery . |
| 4 | It was n't George felt quite enough for him to renew any promises about alcohol . |
| 5 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 6 | that 's for the name , yeah so , so , some of them will be confused , but not enough for them to have any problems I should n't have thought . |
| 7 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 8 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 9 | On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns . |
| 10 | As Bobby Lavender talked and his relations tried to eat their lunch , a police helicopter hovered , its rotor blades occasionally too loud for us to hear each other . |
| 11 | I have a strong interest in languages , and although now we are trying to teach more languages in school , even in primary schooling , I do n't feel that within er my , I 'm only eighteen at the moment , by the time I 'm twenty five things still wo n't have came far enough along for me to utilize this skill . |
| 12 | Regardless of what returns Japanese investors are thought to require , the returns they have received were spectacular in 1980–89 . |
| 13 | I went back in with him to hoist this load , and the altar lamp was still bright . |
| 14 | The Local Authority decides the balance between social good and economic efficiency and Governing Bodies need to work together with them to negotiate favourable terms . |
| 15 | Stewart , who is retiring after guiding England for six years , watched four players who owe much to him play key roles . |
| 16 | If erm things should start to go wrong and the chap on the floor erm was to make any movement or s sudden movement towards either P C or any other piece of equipment in the room which may cause injury or damage to ourselves or himself , it would be down to me to challenge that man er and allow P C to get back behind er the ballistic shield . |
| 17 | Unless you 're a tenant , it 's down to you to make sure gas appliances receive the regular expert servicing they need . |
| 18 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |
| 19 | Sarah had spruced herself up ; she wore a long , royal-blue coat ova a blue dress of some silky material and she had a blue cloche hat pulled down over her straggling grey hair . |
| 20 | All around him rode many squadrons of Rajput cavalry whose armour glittered from afar . |
| 21 | Imposing exogenously a particular form of price rigidity which happens to produce the result that Keynesian stabilization policies can work is hardly enough by itself to justify such policies . |
| 22 | The court held that the council could not maintain the action : ‘ to allow such a thing would be wholly unprecedented and contrary to principle : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 806 , per Day J. There were two grounds of decision in effect , first , that a corporation might sue for a libel affecting property but not for one affecting personal reputation and , secondly , that the charge was one of bribery and corruption of which ( see the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case , 4 H. & N. 87 ) ‘ a corporation can not possibly be guilty : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 807 . |
| 23 | It is not for me to refer that matter to the Select Committee . |
| 24 | It is not for me to offer helpful advice to the right hon. Gentleman , but I shall do so : when in a hole , one should stop digging . |
| 25 | It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not for us to steer these people or act on their behalf ’ , said the SPD spokesman Eduard Heussen . |
| 27 | It is not for us to make political decisions . |
| 28 | And where such statutory means are slow to act or uncertain of their action it is not for us to make pre-emptive strikes in the name of propriety . |
| 29 | Unsupported representations , whether oral or written , do not of themselves constitute sufficient audit evidence . |
| 30 | These are three simple and fairly obvious examples of protective devices with a topic that did not of itself require careful handling , but when at the end of the lesson they chose to extend their interest in hospitals in the future to ‘ finding a cure for cancer ’ quite suddenly the subject-matter has become more of a delicate one , with some taboos attached for both the pupils and the adults watching the lesson . |