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 | She gave him a quick , angry glance , just enough to see that his mouth was thinned with displeasure . |
| 19 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 20 | The rest , as far as Airdrie were concerned , was the recipe a la MacDonald , though they went forward just enough to show that the incongruously exotic Justin Fashanu could be a real asset . |
| 21 | The list of observed bands ( Table 5.12 ) shows that all the IR bands observed coincide with Raman bands ( within 20 cm -1 , which is close enough considering that IR and Raman spectra are of different phases ) , and the number of Raman bands is indeed nine . |
| 22 | The Earth also spins , quickly enough to ensure that the nights are not too cold , nor the days too hot . |
| 23 | A range of frequencies wide enough to ensure that it encompasses the resonant frequency of the sample v r is then examined . |
| 24 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 25 | She had refused to sign the treaty recognizing Elizabeth as legitimate Queen of England , still considering her far from legitimate ; yet , once returned to Scotland , she compromised far enough to say that she would accept Elizabeth 's tenure during her lifetime on the understanding that her own eventual right to the succession was acknowledged . |
| 26 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 27 | One large reason is that it is now often enough claimed that we take effects to be events that might not have occurred , given all things exactly as they were beforehand . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've seen him play often enough to know that he will do a good job for us . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 30 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |