Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [adv] [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 | Yes he has , he 's just been up there to do them cos he thought he might be going to school now he 's decided he 's not so we 'll put the school clothes away again . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | But he will not be there today to face a Luton side who have Wegerle , Williams and Black available after injury . |
| 9 | William could see the village where they lived and the smoke from the fires rising straight up into the air and the dark tower of the church rising above a cluster of stark trees , and because he was nervous he wanted to work his way in that direction , so it would not be so far to run , but because his father was beside him , smiling his reassuring smile , he did n't . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But there still were n't enough to meet the enormous demand . |
| 12 | It still was n't enough to get past Dwight Ennis . |
| 13 | In other words 3p on a pint probably is not enough to cover the previous profit margin . |
| 14 | But it is likely that if American universities tolerate this latest manifestation of the Reagan administration 's medieval strategy for guarding our scientific prowess , there will eventually be considerably less to guard . |
| 15 | But the aim now is not necessarily to liberate sexuality ( the sexual drive ) , but to eroticize the social while at the same time releasing it from the grip of sexuality especially as manifested in the ideology of sexual difference . |
| 16 | ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see . |
| 17 | The nurse had n't been round yet to close the curtains and Charles Paris and Harry Chiltern looked out on galvanized frames of blackness . |
| 18 | ‘ Yet she has n't been out here to see you ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not doing it because of that , I 'm doing it because I prefer to do it , but it is n't that , it 's just the fact that I wo n't be here tomorrow to go and |
| 20 | But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities . |
| 21 | The speaker 's aim here is not simply to communicate the proposition that the hearer must identify the speech act performed by an utterance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Even tomorrow was too soon to think of , there were other happenings before then , the funeral . |
| 24 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |