Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other snag , ironically , arises from the very success of the smallpox vaccination campaign — because , as a result , most of the population of the Third World is already immune to vaccinia and would n't allow it to flourish long enough to produce the hepatitis antigen . |
| 2 | For women whose kitchens have been their own , it seems to come naturally enough to share the domestic space in the refuge and at least here they have a room of their own — possibly for the first time in their lives . |
| 3 | He even tried to reload fast enough to have another crack at it , but it thumped into the wet heather near the river before he could get the shell into the gun . |
| 4 | Indeed , Jip and Zab have lost their almost telepathic ability to communicate , and , as witnessed by the outcome of the novel , the world is unable to communicate well enough to reach a full consensus or enforce a communal decision . |
| 5 | The reason for this shift , according to Marglin , was not the higher efficiency of factory production compared to home-working under the putting-out system , but because the merchants could not force the home-workers to work hard enough to meet the increased demand for cotton . |
| 6 | Dithering nervously with the colour-coded translucent cube-sleeves watching her intrusion , it took her longer than she would have liked to calm down enough to start . |
| 7 | I do not have a handicap because I am not a member of a club , will never be able to afford to join one and ca n't afford the high green fees around London to play regularly enough to improve my game . |
| 8 | She was not able to hear well enough to take shorthand , but her pleasant personally and conscientious work made her a valued member of staff . |
| 9 | ‘ My only aim is to play well enough to stay in the Test team . ’ |
| 10 | They say that although sulphur dioxide may play a role in climate change , its effect is unlikely to be sufficiently widespread or to last long enough to offset the influence of the greenhouse gases . |
| 11 | The current Atlantic airfares price war ( traditional at this time of year planes are at their emptiest ) is not going to last long enough to offer £99 flights in the busy summer months , but prices will stay keen . |
| 12 | That campaign involves a series of ballots designed to last long enough to prevent the closures , while stopping short of a Yes vote on opting-out . |
| 13 | But unhappy names are not ready to give up enough to produce a settlement . |
| 14 | Cancer victim Alfred McTear , 48 , is suing Imperial Tobacco and his home became a temporary courtroom to enable him to give preliminary evidence for a court case he is unlikely to live long enough to see . |
| 15 | There did not seem much point in working at my research , because I did n't expect to live long enough to finish my Ph.D . |
| 16 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |
| 17 | The old coppers who I knew — they used to hit hard enough to stun them , as hard as a butcher hits a cow before he kills it . |
| 18 | I marvel he ever steeled himself to hit hard enough to stun , and to break the branch in the blow , even though it was partly rotted . |
| 19 | For most people it seems that it is necessary to stay long enough to enjoy the bad weather as well as the good , to gain a true appreciation of the countryside . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not planning to stay long enough to find out — have you see the rain ? |
| 21 | It is simply because most diets involve immense change in eating habits and usually some degree of hunger ; they are too difficult for most people to maintain long enough to become slim . |
| 22 | Taken together , however , these figures mean no more and no less than services managing to expand rapidly enough to maintain their overall world share whereas manufacturing steadily dropped way behind in this race . |
| 23 | This would cause the earths atmosphere to heat up enough to kill most forms of life and would also blanket out the suns light for years to come . |
| 24 | There 's a crush over by the door in one of the rooms , with flashbulbs going off every few seconds , but it 's impossible to get near enough to see . |
| 25 | This idea may even have developed from the hunting practices and rituals , in which men dressed as animals to be able to approach near enough to use their short-weapons effectively . |
| 26 | The breed probably paid the penalty of being too lightweight and failing to fatten well enough to meet farmers ’ demands for beef from their dairy herds . |
| 27 | The US environmentalists , in a critical report , had accused Guerreiro of failing to act quickly enough to demarcate the boundaries of a proposed reservation for the Yanomami Indians although he had been ordered to do so by the government in mid-April . |