Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] enough [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you wo n't even let the boy stay long enough to see his mother ? ’ said the yeoman without animosity . |
| 2 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 3 | After that , while never again did she stay long enough to have supper — or do the washing-up — Rosemary , still popping across to Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat at any time , accepted about two invitations in particular each week for coffee . |
| 4 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 5 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 6 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 7 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 8 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 9 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 10 | It was a gamble , that the economy could grow fast enough to sustain the repayments . |
| 11 | This is the question in all markets : whether the cake as a whole will grow fast enough to keep London 's absolute volume of business growing . |
| 12 | Stavov supports Van Laue argues that the only way Russia might advance fast enough to avoid the disaster of inevitable global conflict was through a ‘ totalitarian planned economy ’ . |
| 13 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 14 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 15 | And although he would borrow happily enough to buy painting materials or drinks , he had his own sense of honour . |
| 16 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 17 | Ale was not often kept in barrels cos it did n't keep long enough to want to have enough of it . |
| 18 | As we shall see in later sections , HARPY made sure , by structuring the grammar in particular ways , that a narrow portion would occur soon enough to prevent a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 19 | On the verandah of the plantation house Auguste Lepine heard the commotion in the compound but in the half-light could not see clearly enough to identify its cause . |
| 20 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 21 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 22 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 23 | The senior porter had said , ‘ Sign here , please , Nurse , ’ and been kind when he had to wait until I could see well enough to sign that No. 4 was David Alistair Grant from Arthur Ward . |
| 24 | If that does n't score highly enough to win a contest the next stage is to grapple on the ground until one player wins by holding down an opponent for 30 seconds . |
| 25 | If everyone in the developed world made energy efficiency a priority in all parts of their lives , the carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere could drop quickly enough to make a real difference to global warming . |
| 26 | The two chalk-drawn images , on either side of a Black(Bird)board , do n't rotate fast enough to achieve the required effect . |
| 27 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 28 | At frequencies above ο max the dipoles can not move fast enough to follow the alternating field so both ε′ and ε′′ are low . |
| 29 | Erm against that there is this elephant which appears , and you say we might have it and find a zoo for it , and in fact we ca n't move fast enough to find the zoo . |
| 30 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |