Example sentences of "[be] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |
| 2 | Or are they people that are in work but even their salaries are not enough to cope ? |
| 3 | Retirement benefits are not enough to live on , so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support . |
| 4 | The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it . |
| 5 | Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse . |
| 6 | Most carers have attachment and affection to sustain them ; recognising that the deepest levels of such feelings are not enough to see the process through , involves some grief . |
| 7 | From a commercial point of view , there are not enough to go round . |
| 8 | When there are not enough to go round ? |
| 9 | as if massive trauma and often great suffering are not enough to face , those who are informed that they are infected have also to deal with social stigma ( unlike many other diseases ) . |
| 10 | These few , SAG claims , are not enough to keep it running . |
| 11 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 12 | She describes the context of the child care service , the preventive services and what happens when they are not enough to maintain children at home . |
| 13 | You can always fall back on good old rice and tea if the aesthetic qualities of the food are not enough to overcome your apprehension . |
| 14 | Avoid fitting one in the kitchen , as fumes from cooking are often enough to activate the alarm . |
| 15 | Hopes of joining what Budhoo dubs the ‘ new nobility ’ in this ‘ ultimate paradise ’ are often enough to gain the compliance of Third World officials who might otherwise oppose the introduction of Fund programmes . |
| 16 | This minor cooling , in itself , is unlikely to be sufficient to precipitate an ice age but , where other circumstances are favourable , may be just enough to tip the balance . |
| 17 | At the very least , the assailant may be made to pause for a moment before attacking , and this may be just enough to allow the prey to escape . |
| 18 | Guideline 9 : Try to be around enough to encourage your child in his/her efforts to learn about and cope with life . |
| 19 | I suggest that four suspects as well as your murderer will be quite enough to cope with . |
| 20 | The voters would recognise just what they had thrown away by their mad urge to vote Labour or Liberal Democrat in April 1992 — and this , plus the sight of Mr Gerald Kaufman as Foreign Secretary , would be quite enough to do the trick . |
| 21 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 22 | ‘ We are told there just are n't enough to go around , but surely youngsters like that should get priority after the Irish League and B Division . |
| 23 | as if volatile markets are n't enough to contend with , private investors who invest in unit trusts primarily to minimise the risk of equity investment have found just how uncertain that too can prove . |
| 24 | Words are n't enough to stop what 's happening between you . |
| 25 | His use of the ominous word ‘ precious ’ in The Fellowship of the Ring ( p. 266 ) had been quite enough to suggest that he was already becoming ‘ addicted ’ , that his death was in a way a mercy . |
| 26 | Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses . |
| 27 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 28 | As though Bigwig 's angry impatience , Pipkin 's terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with , the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind . |
| 29 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 30 | as if the casualties being inflicted on members of the armed forces of both parties , not to speak of the crews of the largely neutral shipping involved , were not enough to satisfy the appetite of some mythical god of war , further carnage was developing , mainly in the latter half of the war , among the civilian populations of both countries . |