Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a wheel starts to spin , the brake attached to it squeezes just enough to keep it in check while the engine throttles back . |
| 2 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 3 | The other snag , ironically , arises from the very success of the smallpox vaccination campaign — because , as a result , most of the population of the Third World is already immune to vaccinia and would n't allow it to flourish long enough to produce the hepatitis antigen . |
| 4 | Even then , would it bring in enough to repay Crédit Lyonnais 's lending ? |
| 5 | Unless it grows fast enough to sustain recropping the birds must move elsewhere . |
| 6 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
| 7 | Possessive adjectives , however , do not produce a satisfactory result : ( 60 ) our bicycles damaged all had red handlebars your ideas discussed will be put to our colonel One may enquire why there should be this contrast , since it seems easy enough to see what meaning should be attached to each of the sentences of ( 60 ) . |
| 8 | It looked close enough to touch . |
| 9 | Lord knows , it took long enough to compile all the information stored in there . |
| 10 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 11 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |
| 12 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |