Example sentences of "[adv] enough to allow " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be spoken , audible , and , depending on the level of investigation involved , clear enough to allow instrumental analysis , and accompanied by additional information on the age , sex and linguistic background of the speaker . |
| 2 | These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning . |
| 3 | Motherwell took 27 minutes to create their first chance when Chris McCart carved out an opening for Joe McLeod , but the striker hesitated long enough to allow Brian Irvine to block the effort . |
| 4 | If he does , he should ask the helper simply to make sure that the cars stop for long enough to allow him to cross : the helper should not take the patient 's arm and hurry him across . |
| 5 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 6 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 7 | She flits in and out of people 's lives and never stays long enough to allow anyone to get to know her . |
| 8 | The Lords can publicise matters and delay action for long enough to allow public opinion to make itself felt . |
| 9 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 10 | This can be a bit annoying , because the small area of the current box with the number 2 displayed is often not enough to allow you to see enough of this shade to make a really good colour match with a yarn held next to the screen . |
| 11 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 12 | Although the degree of compression is not enough to allow retrieval from a compact disc , using a fast magnetic hard disc , reasonable full screen full motion video can be achieved . |
| 13 | This is probably not enough to allow significant dissimilatory sulphate reduction . |
| 14 | At the very least , the assailant may be made to pause for a moment before attacking , and this may be just enough to allow the prey to escape . |
| 15 | The doors of the houses were closed and the shutters left open just enough to allow some fresh air to penetrate the rooms . |
| 16 | Right : Pathway round a lawn is set into grass , low enough to allow a mower to pass over it |
| 17 | ‘ I never miss Midnight Mass at St Martin's-in-the-Field , ’ Oscar told him , ‘ so I 'd appreciate it greatly ii the meeting could be concluded quickly enough to allow me time to get there and find a pew with a good view . ’ |
| 18 | Such a short period is hardly enough to allow the development of mature and coherent styles of usage . |
| 19 | Whilst training was no guarantee that losses would not occur it might help to identify health disorders at a stage early enough to allow successful treatment . |
| 20 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 21 | It must be long enough to give you strength in the face of a direct frontal assault but short enough to allow you to spring back or thrust forwards without warning . |
| 22 | Depending on the severity of the cold , they will keep an area of about 300mm ( 1ft ) diameter clear of ice , which is usually enough to allow gases to escape . |
| 23 | Forward of the deckhouse are four more cabins , two on each side of a passageway wide enough to allow a sailbag to be dragged through but not so wide as to be dangerous at sea . |
| 24 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 25 | ‘ Maastricht went too far for public opinion , but not far enough to allow Europe to deal effectively with the problems it faces , such as Yugoslavia , ’ says an exasperated German official . |
| 26 | He was easy to talk to , never allowed any pauses in the conversation , and their paths went back far enough to allow them to spend hours just chatting about people they knew in common . |
| 27 | In the Osma system , a small hole in each pipe connector tells you when you have pushed the pipe in far enough to allow for expansion : 10mm is normally allowed . |
| 28 | The privilege would not stretch to reports of fresh statements made by speakers after the protected meeting has been closed , although it has been held that it does extend far enough to allow those who have spoken in the course of the meeting to repeat their privileged statements to reporters afterwards so that the latter may check the accuracy of their notes . |
| 29 | In fact , if you have a cold greenhouse or well-lit shed , I think there is a good case for removing all containerised aquatic plants and overwintering them in trays just deep enough to allow an inch of water over the compost in the pots . |
| 30 | But the channel was wide enough and deep enough to allow quite large vessels to come very close to the castle-stacks , certainly well within range of their cannon and mangonels . |