Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 2 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
| 3 | Hourani describes a sense of secondariness in contemporary Arab identity : ‘ It is no longer to have a standard of values of one 's own , not to be able to create but only to imitate ; and so not even to imitate correctly , since that also needs a certain originality . ’ |
| 4 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
| 5 | This history should be looked on as my attempt to explore the history of the College so as best to understand why it has become what it is today . |
| 6 | You 're , you , so you 're perhaps here just to find out what trouble you could get into if you ever did agree to do an interview ? |
| 7 | Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was no longer enough just to know how to read . |
| 10 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 11 | It is not enough merely to consider how to perform the five jumps as a technical exercise . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Delicate creamy-yellow ‘ E P Bowles ’ stays open just long enough to contrast beautifully with the pale mauve flowers and bright orange stamens of Crocus tommasinianus . |
| 14 | Dot stayed just long enough to smile back . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Gordon Ellis of the Vectis Flyers , Isle of Wight , uses marker pens to apply his Dragon decor , though not always enough to ward off the evil intent of competitors ! |
| 19 | Well , it 's just as well to find out now , I suppose . |
| 20 | ‘ Just as well to check though , ’ agreed Henry gravely . |
| 21 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 22 | Barbara Coleman made a little jump backwards , a shaking hand went to her lips but not fast enough to cut off her cry of fear . |
| 23 | If an architecture fails to take over the mainstream computer market in its first ten years , it 's not likely ever to do so . |
| 24 | The Jeep slammed into the gates some more , but still not enough to drive through . |
| 25 | What the ad does n't mention , either , is that cells which contains traces of blood are naturally excreted in the faeces and in some babies the amount of cells that are shed increases if they are fed cow 's milk — but still not enough to worry about . |
| 26 | Really easy , so we 'll get do I , quickly really quickly to get down to it . |
| 27 | It is still too soon to say in how many cases this was right . |
| 28 | Were you to continue on this path it would take you to Corrour Station on the edge of Rannoch Moor , and judging by the brutal erosion , something exciting and irresistible must be going on up there to lure so many boot-clad walkers along the track . |
| 29 | It was easy on Parky , not requiring a step-ladder , and not nearly so far to fall once aboard . |
| 30 | Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road . |