Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Establishing this is extremely difficult ; certainly , it is not enough merely to show that you were desperately short of cash . |
| 2 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 3 | At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village . |
| 4 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 5 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 7 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 8 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 9 | Masklin had lived in the Store long enough to know that where there was a lamp , there was a wire . |
| 10 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 11 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 12 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 13 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 14 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 15 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 16 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 17 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |
| 18 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 19 | One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’ |
| 20 | The person or creature — one of your sub-personalities — starts to argue with you , telling you all the reasons why you are wrong , and why you would do much better to believe that life is full of suffering ! |
| 21 | But it 's not enough just to show that you 're incompatible sexually . |
| 22 | She was still naïve enough not to realize that ideas tossed of the cuff could sound quite different in the cold print of day . |
| 23 | If she was stupid enough not to realize that Timothy Gedge would be waiting for her it was n't anyone 's business except hers . |
| 24 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
| 25 | He thought that the Robemaker was waiting for him to do so ; perhaps somehow to indicate that he would ask for mercy , but he had done nothing . |
| 26 | But , he said , its new management is going all out to ensure that it becomes more efficient cost-wise , that it focusses its research more effectively , and that it becomes more market-led . |
| 27 | On the other hand it is not enough simply to say that Libyans were inconsistent because they could not change their ideas fast enough to keep up with their changing society . |
| 28 | It was enough simply to know that otters were out there somewhere . |
| 29 | Cardiff turned to Pearce as the elevator doors slid shut again , pausing only briefly to see that Rohmer was standing almost nonchalantly with his back to the corridor wall and with that infuriating half-smile on his face again . |
| 30 | She gave him a quick , angry glance , just enough to see that his mouth was thinned with displeasure . |