Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] enough [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 2 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 3 | After a few seconds , he moved just enough to let one eye and a frowning eyebrow show . |
| 4 | He even tried to reload fast enough to have another crack at it , but it thumped into the wet heather near the river before he could get the shell into the gun . |
| 5 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 6 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 7 | You 've had my rooms searched often enough to know that ! ’ |
| 8 | One type of constraint , which occurs frequently enough to merit special consideration , is an upper bound on an individual variable . |
| 9 | As Travers ( 1986 , p. 168 ) notes , the government had to set rate limits high enough to prevent legal challenges that income was insufficient to meet statutory obligations . |
| 10 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 11 | However , when towing in a cross wind , the glider will tend to weathercock into wind , and the person on the upwind wing will have difficulty in pushing forward enough to prevent this happening . |
| 12 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 13 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up . |
| 16 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 17 | The senior porter had said , ‘ Sign here , please , Nurse , ’ and been kind when he had to wait until I could see well enough to sign that No. 4 was David Alistair Grant from Arthur Ward . |
| 18 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 19 | The lion got near enough to blow hot oniony breath into her face . |
| 20 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 23 | No. 19 survived long enough to become 19s , of London Transport . |
| 24 | However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older . |
| 25 | The lease from 1580 worked well enough to provide some regular rent for the society , even after Daniel 's death just before 14 May 1581 , when he was buried in Crosthwaite church . |
| 26 | Unfortunately this is a problem which faces both kites er and ospreys and , and some other birds of prey , so er we always look for a few losses , but we hope that nevertheless , in a good season like this , the birds will breed well enough to produce good numbers of young . |
| 27 | Lord knows , it took long enough to compile all the information stored in there . |
| 28 | And if so erm are we then gon na go early enough to prevent this clash ? |
| 29 | In these circumstances our concerns are not that community care changes are a step too far , but that they will not go far enough to produce radical change . |
| 30 | 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 . |