Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God .
2 It was n't George felt quite enough for him to renew any promises about alcohol .
3 Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees .
4 that 's for the name , yeah so , so , some of them will be confused , but not enough for them to have any problems I should n't have thought .
5 On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns .
6 Regardless of what returns Japanese investors are thought to require , the returns they have received were spectacular in 1980–89 .
7 The Local Authority decides the balance between social good and economic efficiency and Governing Bodies need to work together with them to negotiate favourable terms .
8 Stewart , who is retiring after guiding England for six years , watched four players who owe much to him play key roles .
9 All around him rode many squadrons of Rajput cavalry whose armour glittered from afar .
10 Imposing exogenously a particular form of price rigidity which happens to produce the result that Keynesian stabilization policies can work is hardly enough by itself to justify such policies .
11 As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 .
12 The safety of an army in the field is dependent not only on defending itself against direct attack but also on its maintaining open communications with its base … we should be as much concerned with threats to the rear as with threats to the front .
13 The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned .
14 Stuck at work all day with no-one to come home to at night — all very well for you sitting holding hands with Ted with little Frieda watching , you do n't know what it 's like , being on your own , not really — ’
15 " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books .
16 The car three ahead of him moved three yards .
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