Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately he 'd been burned , but not badly enough for the bone structure to be altered as it was in Lawton 's case . ’ |
| 2 | And then we went right through Belgium and Holland , we were stuck in Holland for er in luckily enough for the winter . |
| 3 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 4 | But apparently he 's all right for the weekend because Saturday is a courting-free day ! ’ |
| 5 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 6 | It will see me all right for the day . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll be all right for the night . ’ |
| 8 | Although it may be all right for the spokesman for the Opposition to talk about taking no measures , surely from all parts of the Province there is a cry for a security policy now to carry out what his own colleagues said would have to be done : to extirpate the IRA ? |
| 9 | It is all right for the hero and heroine to go to bed together , although if they actually make love before they are married , a wedding should follow immediately . |
| 10 | ‘ But I did n't catch it , ’ said Stuart , puzzled , not realising the adult wish to make everything all right for the child , and to justify buying the rod . |
| 11 | It was pretty old and too small now , making me look skinnier than I was , but it would be all right for the trip . |
| 12 | But okay you 're going to be all right for the concert a week on Friday ? |
| 13 | ‘ That 's all right for the moment , but I hope , Jane , that you 'll look higher than domestic activity , and think about a better way of using your energy and intelligence in the service of God . ’ |
| 14 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'll be all right for the pageant , I promise you . ’ |
| 16 | It is always difficult for members of any industry to look far into the future and it is especially so for the farming industry . |
| 17 | It is no longer possible to either create a toner particle small enough to stick to a single pixel of charge or to maintain that pixel of charge in isolation long enough for the toner , were it there , to stick . |
| 18 | The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours , just long enough for the king , his ministers and most of parliament — the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy — to evade capture . |
| 19 | HALEMA STAYED FOR three days , just long enough for her round figure bobbing up and down the beach to become familiar , long enough for the affection she exuded to be returned tenfold . |
| 20 | ‘ Long enough for the buyer to get a good distance away , ’ the father said , grinning . |
| 21 | Is this long enough for the evolution of an organism as complex as man ? |
| 22 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 23 | Can you wait long enough for the organism to perform its duties ? |
| 24 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 25 | Watercolour washes dry by evaporation , so it is essential that the wash remains in a liquid state long enough for the pigment particles to disperse uniformly . |
| 26 | I use a two-gang adjustable valve but this never stops stable long enough for the skimmer to work efficiently . |
| 27 | If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed . |
| 28 | This is a situation of which modern theologians have been well aware — often too much so for the comfort of many in the churches — and with which they have tried in various ways to deal . |
| 29 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |
| 30 | So much for the notion held among some people on the Left that politics is only an expression of economics . |