Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] enough [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time .
2 You 've had my rooms searched often enough to know that ! ’
3 The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off .
4 He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up .
5 Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises .
6 Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas .
7 However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older .
8 How times changed — now someone would express their concern ove whether the thing had been cooked long enough to annihilate any salmonella !
9 The other is that so many jobs are likely to need a great deal of capital equipment behind them that there will be a shortage of capital equipment and jobs will therefore not be created quickly enough to maintain full employment .
10 Internationally it entered into a de facto cartel agreement with Canada , whereby export prices were kept low enough to discourage new producers .
11 Most of the tensile stresses in tools are due to bending and by keeping stone tools short and compact stresses could be kept low enough to ensure reasonable durability .
12 Bomb-grade plutonium and uranium have been kept securely enough to persuade most potential proliferators that , if they want a bomb , they will have to make their own nuclear material , not just steal or buy it .
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