Example sentences of "enough [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager D , with a time span of two to three years , did not feel that C , with a time span of three to four , was distant enough hierarchically to take orders from . |
| 2 | It is not enough only to point out that female choice might favour a bizarre male trait ; if the trait is deleterious , one must also explain why the female preference is not then selected against , for the females will produce sons with the bizarre trait . |
| 3 | Yet it is not enough merely to draw attention to the growth of what Marx called the ‘ light cavalry ’ of capitalism , without also observing a significant distinction within the developed countries ; or more precisely between the Old and New Worlds . |
| 4 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 5 | ‘ It is no longer enough merely to acknowledge the facts … and to hope that science will solve by itself the problems that it is creating . |
| 6 | He felt that it was not enough merely to preserve isolated buildings , but that their setting should be protected and improved as well . |
| 7 | For a convincing construction of a normal form it is not enough merely to list a few types of equivalence that can arise and show how to deal with them . |
| 8 | It is not enough merely to consider how to perform the five jumps as a technical exercise . |
| 9 | It is not enough merely to assert their impotence . |
| 10 | Establishing this is extremely difficult ; certainly , it is not enough merely to show that you were desperately short of cash . |
| 11 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 12 | In Scotland , actual distribution or display must be shown to have occurred , whereas in England and Wales it is enough merely to establish ‘ intent ’ . |
| 13 | These processes determine the probability of two components being close enough together to allow covalent bonding by addition reaction . |
| 14 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 15 | If this was not possible , then they had to be placed as ‘ hands ’ on conventional farms where they were close enough together to meet in the evenings with their Madrichim ( group counsellors ) for cultural communion . |
| 16 | ‘ So far we have identified almost 50 separate groups who work closely enough together to benefit from this type of training , ’ said E.S . |
| 17 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 18 | But manager John King and his backroom staff did n't offer Agoos a contract , because they believed he was n't good enough defensively to play in English football . |
| 19 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 20 | Unable to get far enough inside to catch one of the more amenable waves , Foo at last resolved to attempt an outside set . |
| 21 | It will be difficult enough comfortably to relate national and Community citizenships . |
| 22 | Of course there were a lot of questions , but right now the answers did n't matter ; it was enough just to enjoy the questions , and know that the world was full of astonishing things , and that he was n't a frog . |
| 23 | One had the feeling that she was happy enough just to let her racket do her talking for her … |
| 24 | Even if one has good scientific ideas , it is never enough just to publish them : the world will never beat a pathway to the door of the scientific recluse ; and all that the Avogadro or the Mendel can hope for is posthumous fame . |
| 25 | That 's what I did , yesterday morning went with my mate came back , stuck it on so it 's cost me the , the pads were seventeen twenty , thirty pound for the what 's a name and fifty quid near enough just to do the front brakes . |
| 26 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 27 | Not that he breathed a word of this to any of the others ; it was enough just to drink it in himself , sharing his secret with the old farmer . |
| 28 | I myself put my faith in diazepam I 've got gram diazepam which is very slight , very small dose and is enough just to stop you caring so much about whatever it is that 's really bugging you . |
| 29 | As with any catalogue , it 's not enough just to add new items to attract new customers — the items already there have to be reviewed and updated to make sure that they continue to meet today 's needs and standards . |
| 30 | But it 's not enough just to show that you 're incompatible sexually . |