Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alistair had not been a published screenplay writer long enough to respond to , or even recognize , this graphic proposition ( though he did keep the telephone number she threw at his feet ) . |
| 2 | The LDDC has not given local authorities long enough to respond to planning applications ; some community groups have not been consulted ; until 1986 , all meetings were held in secret ; and the LDDC has paid only lip-service to local plans produced by the boroughs concerned . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Hugh hesitated and then did so , undoing the neck just enough to stuff in half a loaf and some smoked meat , giving no-one a chance to see what else he had in it — not that anyone cared . |
| 5 | I 'll get pictures of Mrs. just about to fall in the sea or something |
| 6 | It will not fit our practice well enough to count as an eligible interpretation , and its normative program will be empty , because it instructs us to follow conventions that do not exist . |
| 7 | Blunt changed course just enough to collide with Peacock head-on . |
| 8 | Then she realised that her uncle would have entered the church through a side door connecting with the vestry , while her aunt , who enjoyed rather poor health , would not have set foot outside even to take in the milk . |
| 9 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 10 | She stares straight ahead , but she has opened the window just enough to eavesdrop on the interview taking place on the pavement outside , between Rainbow and the little dove . |
| 11 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 12 | On Jan. 14 Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis once again to fight to the death to defend Kuwait , and the National Assembly in Baghdad formally voted unanimously to approve full powers for him to determine both the Iraqi military response to any allied offensive and the handling of any negotiations . |
| 13 | Reminding Management of diurnal enuresis has been attempted with initially asking the parent to remind the child regularly when to go to the lavatory and gradually pass that responsibility on to the child . |
| 14 | So we have an o we have a , a dis we have a proposal then not to proceed with the purchase of that land this year . |
| 15 | Clive returned to England almost immediately to go into Parliament and keep an eye on East India Company policy in London , but his followers — whose idea of moderation ran on much the same lavish lines — remained in control of Bengal . |
| 16 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 17 | David Singleton , prosecuting for FACT , said Sturdy had worked in the video business long enough to learn about counterfeits . |
| 18 | Dixon had been in the business long enough to convey by a subtle nuance of tone that the Chief Constable was not in an amiable mood . |
| 19 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 20 | I told him to pull his engine rpm down to 1,600 , to put his mixture control to auto-lean and to open his throttle wide enough to stay in loose formation with me … |
| 21 | The party behind , in another special , paid their engineer well enough to drive into the rear coach and smash it — they being rivals with the stranded party to serve the same area with a new railway . |
| 22 | He raised his head long enough to look at her , a question glittering in the blue eyes , and she answered it breathlessly , raising her eyes to his . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Today the Chippendales , put down their bibles long enough to pull on their bicycle shorts and reach for burn . |
| 25 | Furthermore , there was a danger that they would stay in service long enough to qualify for a retirement pension — an even more expensive proposition . |
| 26 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 27 | In a local area , Tit for Tat individuals may meet each other often enough to prosper from mutual cooperation , even though calculations that take into account only the global frequency in the total population might suggest that they are below the ‘ knife-edge ’ critical frequency . |
| 28 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 29 | On his fee : ‘ I told the organisers today not to worry about my fee , just make sure I have enough to drink during the lunch . |
| 30 | ‘ I raised my game just enough to get through the early rounds , ’ he said of his performance . |