Example sentences of "the [noun] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The central Asian khanates ( Khiva , Bukhara and Kokand ) did not trust the Russians enough to take their advice on trade routes .
2 By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading .
3 And if you have the knack and a light enough touch , you can just about ease back the spring enough to release the tongue .
4 She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables .
5 " Well , the River Police suggest that it was to weight the body enough to keep it under water , but not to sink it .
6 At least he was on the ball enough to realize that .
7 La Vie Au Grand Air at least understood the goings-on enough to describe runs as courses and wickets as guichets .
8 Martin 's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon .
9 This previously hard-to-find Balearic tribal coaster has now been given the thumbs-up enough to get a bit of a push behind it courtesy of those spicy Power Promotions people , making sure that all the right channels are chosen ( ie , those DJs ) , which is pretty much all you need , really .
10 In the second example it may be that the person has to deal with the surrounding bereavements before she can clear the ground enough to look at what was probably the major one .
11 Once the court is satisfied that there is evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , it must go on to consider the second requirement : was the provocation enough to make a reasonable man do as D did ?
12 The bullet ripped through his deltoid muscle and pulverized part of the scapula as it exited , the impact enough to spin him almost three hundred and sixty degrees .
13 Let's see if we can widen the hole enough to get Christine through . ’
14 On the one hand , Parliament did not trust the police enough to give them the power they wanted and then let them get on with it .
15 The keen thespian likens the challenge of reactivating the Pedernales oilfield to mounting a theatrical production — it should impress the audience enough to leave them yearning for more .
16 So we should extend licensing and do all that is necessary to reduce the fleet enough to start to modernise it before it is too late .
17 That also jeopardises the peacekeepers , does less for western credibility and runs the extra risk of lengthening an already long war , without changing the balance enough to stop it .
18 He was opposed by at least one cleric , Proculus , who took over the administration of the diocese , and scarcely allowed the bishop enough to eat .
19 When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us .
20 Physical attacks on leading government figures might at least disorganize the regime enough to force it to accede to the appeals for political reform which were once again coming from more moderate sections of public opinion .
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