Example sentences of "long enough [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village . |
| 2 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 3 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 5 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 6 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 7 | Masklin had lived in the Store long enough to know that where there was a lamp , there was a wire . |
| 8 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 9 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 10 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 11 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 12 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 13 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 14 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 15 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |
| 16 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 17 | One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’ |