Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 2 | " And has n't he little enough to worry about , " Patrick smiled , the accent and phrase coming straight from his childhood . |
| 3 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 4 | Use of more than one line to steer a kite dates back as far as the 1820s when George Peacock pioneered use of kites for traction of carriages and a boat.He utilised variable tension on two lines to elevate or depress peg-top kites successfully enough to transport as many as 16 lads to a cricket match , including his grandson , W.G.Grace the famous cricketer . |
| 5 | Right so to get back to what I gave you , you 'll take three off . |
| 6 | And it becomes all right to ask even though the answer is sometimes ‘ No ’ . |
| 7 | The Treasury Select Committee will have fun discussing the precise significance of that measure , which is another attempt to talk up the economy and persuade consumers that it is all right to spend now . |
| 8 | But not many poems felt at all right to do out loud . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me , Uncle , is it all right to carry on thinking about ordinary gravity force instead of wonky space — if you want to ? ’ |
| 10 | Sean said : ‘ It 's all right to sell off confiscated goods such as videos and TVs but not equipment for breaking into cars and houses . |
| 11 | Stay in your chair until you are told it is all right to get up — the camera may still be on you . |
| 12 | They are all right to travel through . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When he feels all right to play again , I 'm sure he will return . ’ |
| 14 | Paul wants so badly to look away . |
| 15 | Perhaps Jeremy Bates , who with his partner , Neil Broad , were ranked sufficiently highly to go straight into the main draw for the doubles , might have considered the position of his partner a little more sympathetically . |
| 16 | It is not enough only to point out that female choice might favour a bizarre male trait ; if the trait is deleterious , one must also explain why the female preference is not then selected against , for the females will produce sons with the bizarre trait . |
| 17 | It is not enough merely to consider how to perform the five jumps as a technical exercise . |
| 18 | His hair was dark and long enough to fall over his eyebrows when it dropped forward . |
| 19 | ‘ One good turn deserves another , you know , and we 've been friends long enough to act neighbourly , have n't we , Albert ? ’ |
| 20 | I must say you 've taken long enough to do so . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 22 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 23 | Gran said , ‘ She had a lovely face , and hair as fair as a baby 's , long enough to sit on . |
| 24 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 25 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 26 | Horrible and I 'm I lived quite happily for long enough to remember certainly means testing and my parents . |
| 27 | SERVICEMEN and women are seldom in the same place long enough to put down roots and buy their own home . |
| 28 | Theodora had spread out the Ordnance Survey and fended off Tobias long enough to make out a route . |
| 29 | And so Bickers moved on to form Levitation , and into his shoes stepped Simon Walker , just long enough to tour extensively and to record the latest album before he , too , split . |
| 30 | You should be prepared to invest for long enough to ride out any dips in the market . |