Example sentences of "[adv] enough for the " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately he 'd been burned , but not badly enough for the bone structure to be altered as it was in Lawton 's case . ’
2 And then we went right through Belgium and Holland , we were stuck in Holland for er in luckily enough for the winter .
3 The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours , just long enough for the king , his ministers and most of parliament — the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy — to evade capture .
4 Is this long enough for the evolution of an organism as complex as man ?
5 Can you wait long enough for the organism to perform its duties ?
6 But they survived long enough for the continents to regroup and to radically alter the atmosphere .
7 At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy .
8 When a person of rank died far from home , and it was known that the funeral would therefore be delayed , embalming allowed the body to remain recognizable long enough for the relatives to make a positive identification on its arrival home .
9 HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold .
10 Long enough for the buyer to get a good distance away , ’ the father said , grinning .
11 Watercolour washes dry by evaporation , so it is essential that the wash remains in a liquid state long enough for the pigment particles to disperse uniformly .
12 ‘ MIPS and Sparc begat Power , which begat Alpha which will beget something new … none will dominate the open-systems market long enough for the critical mass of software needed for long-term success to develop … the future of RISC microprocessors in the open systems market is dead …
13 If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed .
14 I use a two-gang adjustable valve but this never stops stable long enough for the skimmer to work efficiently .
15 And you keep the person in that condition long enough for the damaged red cells to be replaced .
16 Pistol in hand , she paused just long enough for the others to catch up , and handed the goggles to Benny , deciding she 'd probably better play it safe and not risk letting any of the inhabitants of 1915 get an idea of how they worked .
17 It is no longer possible to either create a toner particle small enough to stick to a single pixel of charge or to maintain that pixel of charge in isolation long enough for the toner , were it there , to stick .
18 That a large and heterogeneous society like the United States has maintained just two parties for almost its entire history suggests that the job of aggregation has been performed admirably , but it must be remembered that in the United States these interests are really only aggregated once every four years , just long enough for the parties to select their presidential candidates and fight for their election .
19 Perhaps they had been in the Rorim long enough for the animals to become used to each other .
20 ( d ) Do n't wave the cards about ; hold the card steadily in front of the class long enough for the students to grasp what situation you are trying to present .
21 The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream .
22 Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality .
23 My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold .
24 No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place .
25 Fuel tanks were drained , leaving only enough for the pilot to taxi to the Queen Mary loading point where any surplus fuel would then be completely drained .
26 He made a click of disapproval loud enough for the young man to hear .
27 But he said it loud enough for the whole restaurant to be convulsed and Ken to enjoy his audience at the same time .
28 The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel .
29 But this is not enough for the likes of Coventry , who are prominent among the complainers .
30 But that was not enough for the new Chancellor , Denis Healey .
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