Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence . |
| 2 | If that question is applied to the hard track arid gets a positive answer then it is no longer enough to go for the easy choice . |
| 3 | The Irish are patient enough to wait for a lucky break . |
| 4 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 5 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 6 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 7 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 8 | So the argument that Mr Major needs only to wait for the inevitable victory , after the inevitable economic recovery , should be taken with a fistful of salt . |
| 9 | That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture . |
| 10 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 11 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 12 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 13 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 14 | Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says . |
| 15 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 16 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 17 | MI6 , Scotland Yard and the FBI had been called in to hunt for the shadowy Surrey-born spy . |
| 18 | in the pool there was a win in the Welsh Championships for Karen Rake of the Maxwell Club in Aylesbury … that was the good news … the bad news her time of 34.48 was n't good enough to qualify for the European Championships |
| 19 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 20 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 21 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 22 | This rapid production of InsP 3 is fast enough to account for the odorant-induced generator potentials which appear after a latency of 100–200ms . |
| 23 | In other regions , e.g. Dorset or North Yorks. , a period of c. 20-30 years usually appears long enough to account for the major part of a feature 's development , ( this is possibly the working life of an individual craftsman ) . |
| 24 | These stars are both luminous enough and hot enough to account for the total luminosity within 5pc of the nucleus , estimated to be 0.5–2.0x10 7 , L and ; ( refs 67 , 68 ) . |
| 25 | The Tunguska explosion may have lofted enough material high enough to account for the European ‘ light nights ’ . |
| 26 | Sieving of this order of simplicity is not , on its own , enough to account for the massive amounts of nonrandom order that we see in living things . |
| 27 | The bill was designed to permit workers in companies with more than 50 employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually to care for a sick or new child , receive medical treatment or tend to a seriously ill spouse or parent . |
| 28 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 29 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 30 | Nor were the levels of resources available enough to pay for the increased skills needed for the more complex requirements of local administration . |