Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the Z88 is asleep , it will wake every minute or so to carry out various housekeeping tasks ( checking the alarms , for example ) . |
| 2 | ‘ However shallow injection is best suited to getting rid of dirty water because the material has to be liquid enough to flow down narrow tubes . ’ |
| 3 | More and more , in other words , these now possessed the means not merely to carry out foreign policy but also to study foreign policy questions in some depth . |
| 4 | Thus , as Statement E argues , under certain conditions white workers or residents may get together to freeze out black immigrants because their presence is felt to depress wages or house prices , or to threaten allocation policies which have hitherto made certain jobs or housing the preserve of the indigenous population . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't educated enough to work out Chinese puzzles . ’ |
| 6 | Then go through the replies again if any are marked with a cross , taking whatever action may be appropriate on each ( asking the seller 's conveyancers to provide a copy of a planning consent that your search has revealed , and telling your client that the drainage is combined with that of adjoining properties , or — this merely to pass on interesting information — that the house is in an area designated as one of special natural beauty or historical interest ) . |
| 7 | Carol Chambers of Middlesbrough Volunteer Bureau said : ‘ I rang the Bulgarian Embassy only to find out this guy has written to loads of people . |
| 8 | Your BNFL News was on the spot to cover the latest exciting events , so to find out more turn to the centre pages … . |
| 9 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 10 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 11 | This should enable individual members to get in touch with each other , perhaps to set up teacher-researcher groups where none exist . |
| 12 | And I do n't want to think he was mean enough to pick up stolen candles from a crooked verger . ’ |
| 13 | One look at the Moon or even back at Earth could spell disaster for the infrared detectors which have to be sensitive enough to pick up tiny amounts of radiation from distant stars and galaxies . |
| 14 | In addition , the group developed robotic equipment , using three-dimensional video monitors , that is sensitive enough to pick up single gold coins and to lift heavy beams . |
| 15 | At this point it would automatically have been sensitive enough to pick up airborne vibrations of sufficient loudness and/or sufficient nearness of origin . |
| 16 | They 're soft on baby 's skin yet strong enough to clean up any job . |
| 17 | During the conquest of the Caribbean the Spaniards trained packs of such dogs to kill Indians and so to wipe out whole villages . |
| 18 | They do n't have enough oxygen because you just ca n't breathe fast enough to use up that oxygen in that tremendous burst of power . |
| 19 | The Tories believe they have time enough to put over that case . |
| 20 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
| 21 | Arising out of these conditions , and at the same time reinforcing them , was a widespread and buoyant expectation of continuous growth which was powerful enough to ride out random shocks [ Allsop , 1979 ] . |
| 22 | You should be prepared to invest for long enough to ride out any dips in the market . |
| 23 | His undimmed headlights showed the curve of the autobahn ahead far enough to keep up that speed . |
| 24 | The holes in the plastic membrane are small enough to keep out white blood-cells , the parts of the immune system which recognise and reject foreign tissue . |
| 25 | Sir Ralph 's servant Rastani was lithe and able enough to climb up that wall . ’ |
| 26 | Other women had thought their employment would only be temporary and so believed they would not be in the labour market long enough to build up sufficient contributions . |
| 27 | But he 's acted swiftly to snap up ex-Dungannon players Bertie McMinn ( yes , he 's still going strong ) , goalkeeper Brian Hutchinson , striker Ricky Ruddock and sweeper Maurice Devine . |
| 28 | A few months ago the plant recruited its first workers — the men and women , mainly aged under 25 , whose minds and fingers are agile enough to turn out microscopic silicon chips by the hundreds of thousands . |
| 29 | The purpose of this policy is twofold , first as a means of achieving a more effective link between education and employment so that school leavers are old enough to take up productive work when they leave school , secondly as a means of offering a basic education to a greater number of the nation 's children and ensuring that they stay at school to complete it . |
| 30 | not only was the undergraduate teaching poor , but there was only a minimal amount of postgraduate education in this subject ; part of the reason for this was that there was a shortage of suitable qualified and experienced doctors who knew enough to take on such postgraduate teaching ; |