Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be one reason why fertility recovered somewhat after its initial wartime decline , to reach a peak in 1944 ( 781,478 births ) , unmatched since 1923 , only to fall again in late 1944 and 1945 as mass armies were once again able to operate overseas ( see Registrar-General 1954 ) . |
| 2 | For Bob and Tessa 's house Jannie projected all the reconstruction and improvement which she and John had never found either money or energy enough to carry out in their own . |
| 3 | In particular , an Australian , Hugh Stretton , has put together popular revulsion against high-rise living with feminist ideas about the productivity of housework , and come to the conclusion that , if housework had a place in national accounting systems , then governments would be easily persuaded on economic grounds alone to invest more in housing with generous space standards and of a suburban style ( Stretton , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | If this is the case the end of the U-wire is broad enough to sit comfortably in the palm of the hand . |
| 5 | Hot enough to sit out in the Piazza studded with big brown and green palms against the rose-coloured stucco of the buildings and perhaps try a first ricotta ice-cream . |
| 6 | Now that she was away from Aurae Phiala , Lesley had flamed into an almost delirious fluency and radiance , she who was bright enough to dazzle even in her chosen prison . |
| 7 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 8 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 9 | Yet it 's flexible enough to pull away in fourth gear from 1000rpm . |
| 10 | " Other candidates tend to write out a plan which is lengthy in the extreme , only to write out in sentence form the plan as an answer . " |
| 11 | Inside , the tunnel was shored up with beams and was high enough to stand up in . |
| 12 | It was only seven o'clock , yet the air was mild enough to stand there in her nightdress . |
| 13 | He prophesied that there was no man or woman big enough to stand forever in the way of the Labour Party achieving their aims . |
| 14 | Autumn is an excellent time for this kind of construction work , when the weather is still mild enough to work outdoors in comfort , and there are relatively few urgent jobs to do in the garden . |
| 15 | For example , it is not enough to talk simply in terms of the 103 ; the 103.2 , which formed part of a British system that we recommended in August 1985 was a completely different design from the present 103/4 . |
| 16 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 17 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 18 | Some pieces , like the hydria acquired by the Second Marquess of Sligo ( lot 22 ) were known from the nineteenth century , as was the Amphiaraos stamnos ( lot 24 ) which appeared in an early drawing by Benndorf published in Berlin in 1833 , after which it disappeared , only to surface again in this collection . |
| 19 | It 's light and compact enough to fit comfortably in your lap . |
| 20 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 21 | This argument , based apparently upon the particular circumstances of a young woman in New Zealand whose daughter was unfortunate enough to grow up in care , itself an unusual experience , is dangerous and partial stuff . |
| 22 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 23 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 24 | ‘ We have only to put together in the right way what we know without adding anything , and the satisfaction we are trying to get from the explanation comes of itself . ’ |
| 25 | This is not to say that there are not many households where there is peace and contentment , when the old person is fortunate enough to keep well in mind and body even when she becomes frail , and where the daughter prefers to remain at home , and is able to make a satisfying life for herself . |
| 26 | It was easy enough to hang around in the courtyard enjoying the soft splash of sunlight on her bare arms . |
| 27 | Naturally , to embark on such a step is not necessarily to succeed immediately in realising it . |
| 28 | ‘ There are people who feel strongly enough to lie down in front of bulldozers , ’ she said . |
| 29 | He is quick to point out that it 's not just enough to turn up in any of these activities : ‘ You have to prove to the examiners — and to yourself — that you can are willing to put in the effort to improve and better your standards . |
| 30 | Cetera was subsequently cleared ( only to die later in mysterious circumstances ) but the real worry , for the DIA , was that the Italian court also found that the drug trafficking had been merely a cover , to justify payments to the Kabbaras as DEA informants . |