Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " 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 | To pace yourself , doing enough to pay for a comfortable life and little enough to stay invisible . |
| 3 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 4 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 5 | While happily pleasuring concubines for several hours , they were apparently able to sign documents brought to them and even discuss urgent matters with visitors , with only the occasional movements from down below to make sure that they remained erect in connection with the other matter to hand . |
| 6 | He felt that it was not enough merely to preserve isolated buildings , but that their setting should be protected and improved as well . |
| 7 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
| 8 | Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas . |
| 9 | The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power . |
| 10 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 11 | Only slowly revolving tyres will contact the road for long enough to generate sufficient drive . |
| 12 | The interior was never sufficiently plastic close to the surface for long enough to cause widespread geological activity such as Plate Tectonics , largely because the Moon has a large ratio of surface area to mass and thus loses heat relatively rapidly ( section 2.1.16 ) . |
| 13 | He peered out just long enough to see distant trees sweeping by much too fast , and stuck his head down again . |
| 14 | Hovering long enough to make sure it was n't for her , she left him talking in clipped , terse monosyllables and slipped away quietly to her bedroom , trying to suppress her curiosity about the caller . |
| 15 | However , none of the studies have gone on long enough to make reliable predictions . |
| 16 | We interpret the moderate dispersion and dual polarity ( except for Tsm ) of palaeomagnetic data to indicate that cooling and remanence acquisition occurred over a period long enough to average palaeosecular variation . |
| 17 | She had not known him long enough to become accustomed to the impact of his looks , but she felt confident she could hide any extra fluttering of the pulse which he gave her . |
| 18 | It is simply because most diets involve immense change in eating habits and usually some degree of hunger ; they are too difficult for most people to maintain long enough to become slim . |
| 19 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
| 20 | To grow grain even for home use , one needs fertile land that is ploughable and a growing season long enough to ensure ripening of the crops . |
| 21 | Never have long enough to get ready ? |
| 22 | It was a miracle that so many people managed it — and for long enough to get engaged and married . |
| 23 | In a contrasting approach , a number of writers have introduced the possibility that private agents , such as firms or workers , may bind themselves to fixed prices over periods long enough to permit within-period reaction by policy-makers . |
| 24 | In this last group , black elderly people are over-represented because they have often not worked in this country long enough to accumulate full pension entitlement . |
| 25 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 26 | Politically , relations remained tense for much of this middle period , sufficiently so to affect economic links between England and France , and England was allied with the semi-independent feudatories of the French Crown , Burgundy and Brittany , on a number of occasions until they were absorbed into the lands of the Valois dynasty in 1477 and 1492 respectively . |
| 27 | These processes determine the probability of two components being close enough together to allow covalent bonding by addition reaction . |
| 28 | The war in Poland raged tragically , but even the French had pulled themselves together sufficiently to coin triumphalist slogans about their might and will . |
| 29 | It will be difficult enough comfortably to relate national and Community citizenships . |
| 30 | As with any catalogue , it 's not enough just to add new items to attract new customers — the items already there have to be reviewed and updated to make sure that they continue to meet today 's needs and standards . |