Example sentences of "[adv] enough [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 2 | He unclasped them just long enough to push a small packet across the desk towards Ruth . |
| 3 | He remained just long enough to save a substantial sum by the standards of Irish wealth and then came home with his newly acquired capital . |
| 4 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 5 | She saw Defries , and paused long enough to make a curious gesture : a closed fist , and the thumb sticking upwards . |
| 6 | It looked and sounded great but rarely ran long enough to satisfy a wide variety of drivers . |
| 7 | Helen had been with Culley long enough to recognize a red light . |
| 8 | Forward cyclic is applied only long enough to produce a slight nose down attitude in the model . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is no longer enough to make a simple count of publications ; some attempt must be made to look at the informational content ( bibliographies ) , peer group assessment ( citations ) , and long-term value to the academic community ( review articles ) . |
| 11 | It is no longer enough to make a simple count of publications ; some attempt must be made to look at the informational content ( bibliographies ) , peer group assessment ( citations ) , and long-term value to the academic community ( review articles ) . |
| 12 | There is a simple statement of intent in the Gracious Speech , but of itself that is not enough to stimulate a lumbering giant like British Rail into market-style change . |
| 13 | THE defending champions , Ajax , were last night knocked out of the UEFA Cup quarter- finals by French club Auxerre when their 1-0 home victory was not enough to overhaul a 4-2 first-leg deficit . |
| 14 | But it is not enough to do a good job : our professional conduct committees must be seen to be doing a good job . |
| 15 | But that 's not enough to deter a determined trekkie . |
| 16 | The loss of one vehicle and the leading tank 's offensive capability was not enough to cause a full scale withdrawal . |
| 17 | In the UK , the FRG and the USA the proportions varied between 6 and 10 per cent , which was not enough to make a significant difference . |
| 18 | It is not enough to have a new idea ; the discoverer has to know the field within which the new idea is to be applied , so that he can evaluate its significance , and test the worth of the new insight . |
| 19 | It is not enough to have a political policy , and it is not enough to have a defence policy just to give it a name . |
| 20 | Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants . |
| 21 | A number of army drivers and some civilian Ministry of Defence drivers are available , but not enough to cover a 24-hour period . |
| 22 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 23 | As we shall see in later sections , HARPY made sure , by structuring the grammar in particular ways , that a narrow portion would occur soon enough to prevent a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 24 | A few days later , ash from the same eruption had reached Rio de Janeiro , 2,960 kilometres away , but here the fall was very scanty indeed — not thick enough to form a measurable deposit — and consisted only of the finest , dust-like particles . |
| 25 | The bark from three whole yew trees , amounting to 60lbs contains only two grams of the chemical — scarcely enough to treat a single patient . |
| 26 | If everyone in the developed world made energy efficiency a priority in all parts of their lives , the carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere could drop quickly enough to make a real difference to global warming . |
| 27 | Conceivably , the controls on litter and the promised crackdown on pollution will happen quickly enough to produce a political pay-off . |
| 28 | As for rugby … well , nothing quite so glaring , yet still enough to provoke a creeping unease about affairs at the highest international level , whether it concerns incomplete accounts for the 1987 World Cup ; unfulfilled profit projections , by a huge margin , with disturbing outline accounts emanating from the 1991 event ; and what seem to be , at the time of writing , so many unanswered questions about the 1995 World Cup . |
| 29 | They arrived early enough to consume a vast spaghetti carbonara and a litre of house wine before the little Italian place became crowded . |
| 30 | Three days were usually enough to secure a signed confession . |