Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delicate creamy-yellow ‘ E P Bowles ’ stays open just long enough to contrast beautifully with the pale mauve flowers and bright orange stamens of Crocus tommasinianus . |
| 2 | Natural selection obviously favours the most successful caterpillars , and these are the ones that hatch out early enough to get their jaws into the young , tender , comparatively tannin-free leaves . |
| 3 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 4 | Desire alone never enough to get machine started , he wrote . |
| 5 | Music might be shit , but life itself is fully equipped to deliver magic if you stick around long enough to wait for it . |
| 6 | ‘ Though I have n't always enough to do . |