Example sentences of "[adv] far enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |
| 2 | The red tape always seems less voluminous the farther away from headquarters you are , and Fairbanks was apparently far enough away from both U.S. , and U.S.S.R. officialdom to make the approval possible . |
| 3 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 4 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 5 | Set on its own rocky peninsula overlooking the sea , the hotel at Cala Mesquida is just far enough from the hustle and bustle to make it that little bit quieter and more relaxing . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps it is just far enough from the place where she was killed , to divert our attention . ’ |
| 7 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 8 | Virtually all the accounts we have suggest that the public schools , in spite of Arnold 's efforts , continued to exist in something not far removed from a Hobbesian state of nature — or rather , just far enough removed to allow for the development of tribal ritual . |
| 9 | Now locate the drilled side just a shade higher so that as you hammer the pin in place it moves down just far enough to produce a perfect joint . |
| 10 | Sink them just far enough to dimple but not fracture the paper surface |
| 11 | It is not necessary to pass the carriage all the way across the work — just far enough to clear the needles at the ‘ business ’ end . |
| 12 | What 's the point when a minor throng , just far enough outside London to be irritating , is hanging on his every word ? |
| 13 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 14 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 15 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 16 | Just far enough for a tongue , large as a palm leaf , red as mahogany , to lick up a few errant feathers . |
| 17 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 18 | Just far enough to get your earhole . |
| 19 | Steve refused to be drawn when Willie Carson set a suicidal pace on Jahafil , but was still far enough ahead of the others to have a winning lead off the final bend . |
| 20 | The Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom at sixty degrees north , lie well south the true Arctic , but still far enough north that in midsummer the sun only sets for an hour or two . |
| 21 | In the meantime I suspect that the Rugby Union will soon have to acknowledge that they are not nearly far enough down the road with their new registration legislation to have a hope of implementing it on May 1 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 23 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 24 | Yet the redefinition of factors which need to be considered for a fuller understanding of politics and power have not gone nearly far enough : they are still confined to the world of public politics and the struggles for power in the public arena . |
| 25 | For while many Catalans may have felt that the Statute , especially in the financial sphere , went nowhere near far enough , the political right and much of the officer corps were incensed at what they considered the dismembering of the Spanish ‘ Fatherland ’ . |
| 26 | She shows how the individual ( artist ) can oppose corporate image-making by using what lies around at home , plus the traditional methods of parody , satire and humour : of taking an image " too far " or nowhere near far enough . |
| 27 | Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that the figures that he has announced for training and education will go nowhere near far enough to fill the skills gap ? |
| 28 | You 're bound to go a little bit too far or not quite far enough . |
| 29 | Family run B/B close to the beach , shopping , entertainment and conference centres yet far enough away from the main road to avoid traffic noise . |
| 30 | It is a ledger , the size and solidity of an old-fashioned accounts book , with broken corners and an air of belonging to that grey period which is too far gone to be new but not yet far enough off to be old . |