Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 32 | ‘ Not long enough to get a pay-off cheque from Mick Jagger . ’ |
| 33 | The morning passed by in a flurry of activity , and she barely saw Dane , except for a fleeting moment as he rushed headlong along the corridor , pausing long enough to drop a kiss on her lips that turned her knees to water . |
| 34 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 35 | Forward cyclic is applied only long enough to produce a slight nose down attitude in the model . |
| 36 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 37 | If that does n't score highly enough to win a contest the next stage is to grapple on the ground until one player wins by holding down an opponent for 30 seconds . |
| 38 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 39 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 40 | Walesa stepped in personally to halt a strike on June 10 by the country 's 200 air traffic controllers who demanded salaries comparable with colleagues in other European countries . |
| 41 | I screamed , loud enough to prompt a comment from the other tent about the vicar 's strong language . |
| 42 | For most established museums and picture-galleries , simple representation does not suffice : it 's not enough just to have a very good Raphael in the collection ; it 's how many Raphaels you have . |
| 43 | It is not enough just to have a common foreign policy . |
| 44 | In many cases when creating this effect , it is not enough just to tie a bow in a piece of ribbon , and you may have to actually create a bow from a piece of material in order to produce the right effect . |
| 45 | No longer so just to get a feel f |
| 46 | Anyway he was at home that day , home for lunch , and he and Beryl were actually sitting at the table , talking as it happened about going down soon to take a look at the Hall , when Adam came in . |
| 47 | Fun ‘ N Games , who finished third to Tartan Tyrant at Ayr , could get into it and Carton has been running well enough lately to merit an interest . |
| 48 | George was civil servant enough not to ask a simple question if a fancy one would do . |
| 49 | It 's bad enough not to have a honeymoon . ’ |
| 50 | They have all introduced a discount scheme to enable those unfortunate enough not to have a job not to have a proper job the same access to all these facilities as those in work . |
| 51 | He hoped she would be civilized enough not to make a scene . |
| 52 | Should you be unfortunate enough not to find a solution by this means , then you may have lost the alignment of the disk read/write heads . |
| 53 | Not , I admit , the kind of explosives you have down there but we know enough not to trigger a bomb by accident . ’ |
| 54 | I think he was brought in just to do a good production job . ’ |
| 55 | The Chancellor was quick to welcome the signs of recovery and repeat his view that he has cut interest rates far enough already to ensure a recovery . |
| 56 | on the day itself , there is not only the opening of the presents , and the party , but also the aftermath when it 's all over to provide a fitting finale to the day 's activities . |
| 57 | Adult men , especially those old enough still to have a memory , however faint , of 1848 , were the characteristic insurrectionaries of 1871 . |
| 58 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 59 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 60 | She had gone along once to pay a casual visit and found one of Nenna 's youngsters , the little one , cooking some kind of mess for him in Dreadnought 's galley . |