Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 2 | And to justify the ways of God to men with such honesty , that is to say with such a complete account of what the price is which would have to be paid , is of course no longer to justify but to enact the actual conflict . |
| 3 | A range of frequencies wide enough to ensure that it encompasses the resonant frequency of the sample v r is then examined . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 6 | And as such of course in run load you can make this thing go in the order of tens of nanoseconds probably less to recognize an image . |
| 7 | … let the organization of a canine animal become slightly plastic , which animal preyed chiefly on rabbits , but sometimes on hares ; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease and the number of hares to increase ; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares , and his numbers would tend to decrease ; his organization , however , being slightly plastic , those individuals with the lightest forms , longest limbs , and best eyesight ( though perhaps with less cunning or scent ) would be slightly favoured , let the difference be ever so small , and would tend to live longer and to survive during that time of the year when food was shortest ; they would also rear more young , which young would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities . |
| 8 | Verkehrsberuhigung means to lessen the disadvantages of traffic yet still to keep all the advantages of transport . |
| 9 | OXTON are in championship form with their recent run of success almost enough to have landed a Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition title . |
| 10 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 12 | If the period of historic relevance is measured in hundreds of years , then even periodic recopying and migration to new generations of hardware will not effectively provide for the preservation of information long enough to meet historians ’ long-term needs . |
| 13 | In 1989 , Islander crossed the Bay of Biscay once more to cruise the north coast of Spain from San Sebastian to Santander . |
| 14 | He gives them the best working conditions and levels of pay high enough to sustain their motivation . |
| 15 | Leila drives , a remarkable performance given that we are so wet and steaming that she must peer through condensation thick enough to carve . |
| 16 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 17 | Although the butler had never said or intimated anything untoward , Michael had grown up with prejudice long enough to recognize it for what it was . |
| 18 | I do n't expect the heartbeat award scheme to suffer , I will be in touch with Matthew fairly closely to ensure that , but I think the position of the labour group is that we can not support these recommendations as they are but we offer you a compromise solution . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One is that , if there is going to be a high level of unemployment because productivity is rising faster than output , this means that the cost of goods and services is falling fast and either consumer demand is not increasing fast enough or industry can not gear up production fast enough to create the demanded extra output . |
| 21 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 22 | Helen had been with Culley long enough to recognize a red light . |
| 23 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 24 | A post mortem examination will take place in Vancouver later today to confirm identification from dental records . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 26 | He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly . |
| 27 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 28 | The breeding population appears to be resident , but birds are recorded in other areas of the county in winter sufficiently frequently to suggest either some post-breeding dispersal within the county , or that a few visit the county from elsewhere in winter . |
| 29 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 30 | Some cautions must be mentioned , however : a good torch is essential , the floor is a carpet of clinging mud that sucks sandals and light shoes off the feet of visitors inadequately shod ( wellingtons are the best footgear ) , and the ceiling is in places low enough to crack the skulls of unwary explorers . |