Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 32 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 33 | The Profitboss devotes time and effort to this , taking his team away periodically to discuss their vision of excellence , clarifying it , refining it and defining it in terms of the best standards , the best contribution , the best performance . |
| 34 | They are little more than delicate hooks hidden in their plumage and are so short that they are quite incapable of lifting the bird 's body high enough to enable it to make a complete wing beat . |
| 35 | Another reason why lone-parent families could gain very little from these new measures is simply that absent parents may not have incomes high enough to enable them to pay child support at the levels required . |
| 36 | He did not know Taheb well enough to trust her yet . |
| 37 | TV personality Leslie Crowther , 59 , has recovered from his car crash coma well enough to write his own name at Bristol 's Frenchay Hospital . |
| 38 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 39 | The other problem is that Labour is not interested either in reforming the political process very radically to make it more effective in protecting citizens . |
| 40 | One vanity I am rarely guilty of is name-dropping , simply because I can never remember a name long enough to drop it . |
| 41 | But the volunteers have had to borrow one hundred thousand pounds so far to set it up . |
| 42 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
| 43 | When a servaton finally appeared , I ordered a goblet of the fuming Paoostyc liquor called Old Sunburst , raised my mask just enough to gulp it , then ordered two more . |
| 44 | Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers . |
| 45 | South Africa press up so quickly that you must kick the ball more often to turn them . |
| 46 | By virtue of sections 423(2) and 238 of the Act of 1986 the court has an overall discretion wide enough to enable it , if justice so requires , to make no order against the other party to the transaction . |
| 47 | I think we know each other well enough to use our Christian names . ’ |
| 48 | You will either be lying on a couch or sitting in a comfortable chair with a back high enough to support your head . |
| 49 | The fact that the United Kingdom had given assurances at home and at Strasbourg never again to use them appears to have caused no qualms . |
| 50 | She had worked with Africans long enough to value their skills and ability and be totally incensed by studies purporting to prove that Africans were of lesser ability than Europeans . |
| 51 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 52 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 53 | It should then be possible to add to this minimal definition more closely to define what is to be done . |
| 54 | Roman 's early experience had altered him irrevocably from a loving young man to a hard cynic who would never let any other woman near enough to win his love and trust . |
| 55 | The men at the ramparts had often tried in vain to tempt one of the stray artillery bullocks near enough to capture it , but at long last , towards the end of the first week of September , an old horse was captured at the banqueting hall and put to death . |
| 56 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 57 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
| 58 | But her happenings were transformed by the characters who caused or suffered them ; she was an artist , unlike the Goncourts , who attached happenings to characters quite arbitrarily to suit their convenience . |
| 59 | But all the other environmental problems affect people too indirectly to make them act . |
| 60 | He does n't know Mitch well enough to trust him to look after you . ’ |