Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 2 | It is all right to tell a whopper on an answering machine ( ‘ We 're sorry that we can not answer your call right now ’ is either a lie or a statement of the obvious ) , but no one will forgive you for not ‘ getting back ’ to him later . |
| 3 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |
| 4 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 5 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 6 | We need a time limit which is short enough to be attractive but long enough to effect a result . |
| 7 | Warner paused , but not long enough to invite a response . |
| 8 | Undaunted , one of the Marines took it upon himself to pop out from hiding just long enough to hurl a grenade at the gun position . |
| 9 | The total playing and recording time : eight hours , long enough to record a string of television programmes . |
| 10 | The long residence time generally means that any harmful bacteria that enter an aquifer do not live long enough to pose a threat to anyone using groundwater . |
| 11 | long enough to earn a name , his dedication . |
| 12 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 13 | Although Gumperz bases his analyses on transcriptions of actual conversation , his examples consisting of " illustrative brief exchanges , just long enough to provide a basis for context bound interpretation " ( 1982 : 75 ) show only the stretches of speech containing the code-switched utterances themselves , and omit specifications of pauses , laughter , other parties ' contributions which overlap with the current speakers " and other details which are considered potentially important by conversation analysts . |
| 14 | The companies say that if they are not allowed to produce HCFCs and HFCs for long enough to make a return on their investment , users will face a crisis when CFC manufacturing comes to a halt in the late 1990s . |
| 15 | At least long enough to make a statement . |
| 16 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 17 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 18 | ‘ Not long enough to get a pay-off cheque from Mick Jagger . ’ |
| 19 | The morning passed by in a flurry of activity , and she barely saw Dane , except for a fleeting moment as he rushed headlong along the corridor , pausing long enough to drop a kiss on her lips that turned her knees to water . |
| 20 | If that does n't score highly enough to win a contest the next stage is to grapple on the ground until one player wins by holding down an opponent for 30 seconds . |
| 21 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 22 | Walesa stepped in personally to halt a strike on June 10 by the country 's 200 air traffic controllers who demanded salaries comparable with colleagues in other European countries . |
| 23 | I screamed , loud enough to prompt a comment from the other tent about the vicar 's strong language . |
| 24 | In many cases when creating this effect , it is not enough just to tie a bow in a piece of ribbon , and you may have to actually create a bow from a piece of material in order to produce the right effect . |
| 25 | No longer so just to get a feel f |
| 26 | Anyway he was at home that day , home for lunch , and he and Beryl were actually sitting at the table , talking as it happened about going down soon to take a look at the Hall , when Adam came in . |
| 27 | Fun ‘ N Games , who finished third to Tartan Tyrant at Ayr , could get into it and Carton has been running well enough lately to merit an interest . |
| 28 | It 's bad enough not to have a honeymoon . ’ |
| 29 | They have all introduced a discount scheme to enable those unfortunate enough not to have a job not to have a proper job the same access to all these facilities as those in work . |
| 30 | He hoped she would be civilized enough not to make a scene . |