Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strip of ice was not broad enough to skate on but you could run over the crackling , frosty grass and leap onto it and slide the best part of thirty yards . |
| 2 | So you think you are rich enough to carry on . |
| 3 | She was strong enough to carry on , to make the most of what she had left . |
| 4 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 5 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 6 | Er everything depending on the the the the work of the farm would come to a standstill if erm if the horses y if they were not kept in good condition , they would n't be strong enough to keep on going every day . |
| 7 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 8 | That 's really a matter if , if anybody who 's interested enough to take on what we call co-ordination , receiving the material and then you know , telling people what letters are needed . |
| 9 | Is there anybody brave enough to take on the post of SAA Executive Secretary ? |
| 10 | It was really exciting just to carry on and get involved in making an album — get on the road . |
| 11 | He himself had seen all he wanted of the Heathertons , and was free now to get on with his studies , without interruption . |
| 12 | I could n't carry her , but she dragged easily enough , and at first the shingle was hard enough to walk on . |
| 13 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 14 | Behind his screens , Mike Quinn gagged on ropes of his own phlegm but was considerate enough to hang on a little longer . |
| 15 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 16 | " Are you sure you 're well enough to go on hunting , Dad ? " he asked anxiously . |
| 17 | This is the Villa Arnaga , open for visits from April to the end of October , and curious enough to put on your visiting-list . |
| 18 | ‘ Good enough to hang on to , ’ she whispered , staring up at him . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 20 | But religious language not only provided a link between different political constituencies , it offered a set of concepts , a rhetoric of resistance and a strength of moral certainty powerful enough to take on the weight of the medical and political establishment . |
| 21 | There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself . |
| 22 | The need for such a sketch is obvious when one recalls that ritual and ritualistic ideas can make sense only when taken in reference to a total structure of thought and system of social and historical reality ( most of which I shall , of course , be able only to touch on here ) . |
| 23 | Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on . |
| 24 | A lone mercenary thinks he 's tough enough to take on a bunch of macho gun-toting enemy soldiers ( who are probably so 'ard they eat shredded wheat , box and all , for brekky ) . |
| 25 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
| 26 | So it is important now to go on fighting the battles , once so hard-won . |
| 27 | Seems they leave you alone here to get on with it . |
| 28 | If only she was alive today to pass on the secrets of her success . |
| 29 | Here the temperature just below the surface is hot enough to cook on . |
| 30 | It 's small enough to carry on the hill , but the historical introductions get together to give a good potted history of the Golden Age of Alpinism . |