Example sentences of "[adv] enough [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village . |
| 2 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 3 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 5 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 6 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 7 | Masklin had lived in the Store long enough to know that where there was a lamp , there was a wire . |
| 8 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 9 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 10 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 11 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 12 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 13 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 14 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 15 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |
| 16 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 17 | One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’ |
| 18 | It took long moments before Caroline calmed down enough to remember that she had not sprung the little trap she 'd set . |
| 19 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 20 | In the spirit of this observation , however , it is not enough to argue that Marx 's views have been shown to be false by the continuing development of capitalist socialisation . |
| 21 | It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better . |
| 22 | It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence . |
| 23 | ( It is not enough to say that you learnt martyrhood from your parents . |
| 24 | It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles . |
| 25 | For it is clearly not enough to say that if two things are observed simultaneously in different spatial positions , then they are two , not one , even though they might be completely alike . |
| 26 | It is not enough to say that most asylum applicants are deserving because they come from ’ unstable ’ or ’ strife-torn ’ countries . |
| 27 | It is certainly not enough to say that the former position shows " attribution " and the latter " predication " ; one must go on to say what these terms of one 's theory mean , and if our account is to be genuinely explanatory , we must do so in ways which can be related to concepts and phenomena which stand outside our initial theory . |
| 28 | So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art . |
| 29 | It is not enough to assume that all that has happened is that we no longer believe in hell , and that mutes , carrying black ostrich plumes , are out of favour . |
| 30 | The time available for the work of Leisure Choice was not enough to guarantee that no short-cuts were taken in terms of involving the steering group members in all parts of the project 's work . |