Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 2 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 3 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 4 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 5 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 6 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 7 | PC Hall , a 38-year-old father of two , was well enough yesterday to complain about hospital food which he refused to eat . |
| 8 | Two other ministers had already resigned since January , apparently also to go into opposition : Mohammed Djama Elabe , Minister of Health and Souleiman Farah Lodon , Minister of Public Adminstration . |
| 9 | Grace had tried to persuade John long before to go to ballet classes , because she thought him small for his age and hoped the exercise might encourage growth , but he refused , saying ‘ Oh no , mummy , the boys will call me a sissy . ’ |
| 10 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 11 | ‘ Miles , I did n't come down here to talk about insurance . ’ |
| 12 | It is not enough simply to take into account the conditions at that particular time . |
| 13 | It will be easiest to explain the principles of heredity with the traits in which they were originally discovered , and only then to turn to behaviour . |
| 14 | Songs like ‘ Brand New Love ’ and ‘ Its So Hard To Fall In Love ’ — covered much to Lou 's flattered bewilderment by Superchunk — and newer material that will appear on the next full-length Sebadoh LP , to be released in the new year by Sub Pop and Roughneck , are typical of his style : eschewing traditional songwriting imagery and devices in favour of pure , honest expression . |
| 15 | Beckett 's failing narrators manage in their torrents of words only unstably to sustain in existence on a strange edge of death and silence , adrift in ‘ who knows what profounds of mind ’ ( Beckett 1984 : 288 ) . |
| 16 | Honours are one thing , and it 's not necessarily to do with class , because any one of any class can get on |
| 17 | God gives enough evidence of Christ risen to call to faith , but not enough to compel to acceptance … |
| 18 | It is not enough to rely on vitamin pills and hope for the best . |
| 19 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 20 | Enough to put together a good story but not enough to rush into print with it . ’ |
| 21 | She raised her voice just enough to hint at domination . |
| 22 | The quality of anal continence was assessed clinically by two doctors who questioned each patient about faecal leakage by day and during sleep , the need to wear a pad , anal soreness , the ability to defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes , and the ability not only to discriminate between flatus and faeces but to release flatus safely without having to visit the lavatory . |
| 23 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 24 | Systematists need not only to communicate with nature conservationists but also to appraise them . |
| 25 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not just to do with surface . |
| 27 | Which is why all the products in the range are carefully formulated , not just to work in isolation but to work together as a complete programme — repairing , cleansing , caring and styling . |
| 28 | Underline that the purpose is not quickly to arrive at understanding , but to embark upon a lifetime 's exploration . |
| 29 | Every quarterly club meeting turns into a very pleasant ‘ social event ’ with wine and nibbles and subsidised trips are organised at frequent intervals ( but not always to do with knitting ) for added interest . |
| 30 | The clause cited from the will , however , is not a pure example of a trust clause , for its purpose is not purely to confirm in trust form what has already been said in civil-law terms . |