Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But stability alone is not enough to ensure the prosperity of British industry . |
| 2 | If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs . |
| 3 | Barnes turned the game with his penalties , but possession alone was not enough to break a Springbok side which defends with a pride born of historical arrogance . |
| 4 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
| 5 | ‘ We are told there just are n't enough to go around , but surely youngsters like that should get priority after the Irish League and B Division . |
| 6 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 7 | Even though there is gold , silver and cadmium , there just is n't enough to offset the cost of disassembly and melting down , ’ says Omar Khalifa , Apple Computer Inc 's manager of environmental technology . |
| 8 | But there still were n't enough to meet the enormous demand . |
| 9 | It still was n't enough to get past Dwight Ennis . |
| 10 | In other words 3p on a pint probably is not enough to cover the previous profit margin . |
| 11 | But a promise of jam tomorrow was n't enough to satisfy the Commission , which issued a Reasoned Opinion against the UK 's implementation of the Drinking Water Directive in April . |
| 12 | But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained . |
| 13 | It involves beliefs such as ‘ There is n't enough to go round ’ , ‘ I never have enough money ’ , ‘ Money does n't grow on trees ’ , ‘ You have to work hard for what you want ’ , ‘ If I have more , others have less ’ , ‘ Better save for a rainy day ’ and ‘ It 's immoral to be rich when so many people are starving and homeless . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The valves are set according to the weather conditions , and the setting it was on was just enough to cause the tanker to leak slightly . |