Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] to keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 2 | And Mary 's condemnation was not enough to keep him from succumbing . |
| 3 | But this was not enough to keep away mosquitoes , which started to arrive and drift towards the flames . |
| 4 | Encouragement of this kind alone , however , was not enough to keep the ambitious project afloat . |
| 5 | But a jackpot of £2,350,000 was not enough to keep Kirkley in a job . |
| 6 | Their goal was not necessarily to keep the resulting ORS hypotonic . |
| 7 | She could sympathize with his chagrin but it was hardly enough to keep him awake at night . |
| 8 | ‘ Yarg , ’ said Rincewind and then , because somehow that was hardly enough to keep up his side of the conversation , added , ‘ I do n't think it looks very like me , though . ’ |
| 9 | CATHERINE If I did , it was probably only to keep you in order . |
| 10 | My salary was barely enough to keep me in sliced white and undies , never mind maintain Mrs Dennis Parsons in the style to which she had become accustomed . |