Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] enough [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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1 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
2 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
3 | The successful birds had two young which were feathered well enough to show the black bar along the grey wings which distinguishes immature kittiwakes . |
4 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
5 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
6 | It is to be hoped that data-base technology can be developed quickly enough to meet the imminent requirements for data management in very large hyper-bases . |
7 | Except for marine products , the few goods that polar regions yield are seldom valued highly enough to offset the high costs and risks of exploiting them . |
8 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
9 | The RSPCA hopes it has acted quickly enough to prevent the abuse of this new type of farm animal . |
10 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
11 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
12 | The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable . |
13 | Furthermore , new teachers were not being trained fast enough to replace the trained teachers who were leaving the profession . |
14 | X-rays can detect only big tumours , and bronchoscopes — flexible fibre-optic cables which relay pictures from the inside of the lungs to the outside world — only see those that have spread far enough to wrinkle the lining of the lung . |
15 | This is shown here ( Fig. 1.4B ) for the premaxillary suture , which is in the process of opening but has not yet proceeded far enough to destroy the integrity of the skull . |
16 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
17 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
18 | Without exception , their hair had been cropped short enough to reveal the scars underneath . |
19 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
20 | All you have to do is to understand the right habit or growing style of the crops and time your sowings and plantings with that in mind , ensuring that soil fertility levels are kept high enough to support the extra output . |
21 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |