Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Currency markets followed the trend , with the dollar opening sharply higher , only to drift back during the afternoon and close just under half a pfennig up at Dm1.6370 . |
| 32 | During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace . |
| 33 | This may be one or two characters in most commercial systems ( Tappert et al , 1990 ) , but need only be fast enough to keep up with the writing . |
| 34 | War boars are evil minded creatures that will take every opportunity to maim , bite , and kick their Orc masters but this does n't really bother the Orcs who are on the whole sensible enough to keep out of the way . |
| 35 | After a week together , Jakki flew back to Britain in floods of tears , only to fly back to the States again three days later to interview Madonna . |
| 36 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
| 37 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply . |
| 38 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch . |
| 39 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 40 | It was easy enough to hang around in the courtyard enjoying the soft splash of sunlight on her bare arms . |
| 41 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 42 | He had n't rung to make an appointment , better to turn up at the door and press the bell like any other cheapskate private detective . |
| 43 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 44 | Some aspects of shared planning are valuable enough to survive regardless of the competition for school admissions . |
| 45 | Moon walked this section as if it were HVS , only to fail just below the top . |
| 46 | An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham . |
| 47 | This is rare in cars of this type , which tend to be fun for the driver , but a bore for anybody unlucky enough to end up in the back . |
| 48 | You need constantly to think actively of the meaning of what you are drilling . |
| 49 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 50 | If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way . |
| 51 | But the Queen , well protected by raincoat , hat and umbrella , smiled through the deluge as she chatted with those brave enough to stay out in the open under a gaily-coloured sea of umbrellas . |
| 52 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 53 | The loss of that money is resented by at least one member of the England Committee , who told me : ‘ Our football in Sweden was the worst in my lifetime , but we should be strong enough to face up to the situation . |
| 54 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 55 | Even so young Maggie was not a child to cheat ; it did not occur to her to prise the egg open , only to stay longer in the bath and to forget to take the soap out of the water , when she climbed out herself , pink and skinny . |
| 56 | You may think you have purse-netted every hole only for a bolting rabbit suddenly to push up through the snow as if from nowhere and make its bid to escape . |
| 57 | The products are good enough to need little in the way of revamping and apart from the odd addition to the range or a change of packaging little of any interest happens to the product . |
| 58 | Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval . |
| 59 | Many of the Minoan sailing ships were probably small enough to drag out of the water on to a beach , but some seem to have been very large . |
| 60 | Ceolred evidently felt secure enough to attack deep into the territory of King Ine in 716 , fighting against him in battle at Woden 's Barrow ( Adam 's Grave ) overlooking the Vale of Pewsey ( ASC A , s.a. 716 ) . |