Example sentences of "it [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 2 | ‘ Following the failure of the stabiliser rear spar top chord , the structure could not sustain the flight loads imposed upon it long enough to enable the failure to be detected by the then existing inspection schedule . |
| 3 | My chances of getting my hands on it long enough to give it the once-over were minimal , and I did n't fancy trying to steal it off Harley . |
| 4 | What I want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when I 've finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that . |
| 5 | When I examined the differences between success and failure in change projects or development efforts , I found that one major difference was simply time — staying with it long enough to make it work . |
| 6 | Coffin had been at it long enough to know that was the way truth lay , that in the untidiness lay the answers . |
| 7 | She would need stock , after all , and if the selection was n't too impossible she could probably keep it long enough to clear it . |
| 8 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 9 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 10 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 11 | Is it not enough to have to endure that when one is alive ? ’ |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 13 | you would have done it early enough to say , oh well , we can invite somebody else . |
| 14 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 15 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 16 | Only so can he choose whether to stay in it or leave , only so can he ever see it clearly enough to try to change it . |
| 17 | When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man . |
| 18 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 19 | Was it deep enough to sweep the vehicle over the edge ? |
| 20 | ‘ They ca n't fake it well enough to fool a forensic laboratory . |
| 21 | To understand the world , then , and understand it well enough to contrive to live in it , there is no one way : not fact , not theory , not particularity , not abstraction ; and explanations of whatever kind are not universal answers , merely part of a progressive and accumulative act of learning and knowing . |
| 22 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 23 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 24 | I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle . |
| 25 | and then they did n't build it well enough to withstand fire |
| 26 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 27 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 28 | This frankness was so unprecedented that the girls could not resent it ; they could not , in the context of school behaviour , take it seriously enough to resent it . |
| 29 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |