Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] enough [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 2 | It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word . |
| 3 | A candidate who does not do well enough in the written examination for the Master 's degree , but who otherwise attains a satisfactory standard , may be awarded the Diploma . |
| 4 | Fish can not swim fast enough for long enough and so can not porpoise — but they do not need to surface for air and so can swim at depth to reduce drag . |
| 5 | Cheshire notes that even so a number of alternating items and structures did not occur frequently enough for a quantitative analysis , and some of the frequencies for the variables which were analysed are very low . |
| 6 | ‘ I think perhaps I did not work hard enough at my marriage , ’ she admits now . |
| 7 | It is the optimists who did not react quickly enough to the downturn who have been caught out . |
| 8 | While a number of such problems can be treated successfully with deep-acting remedies or hypnotherapy , there are occasions when these can not reach deeply enough into the patient 's core . |
| 9 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 10 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 11 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 12 | The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union . |
| 13 | But this does not go far enough for us and er shortly we will be moving another amendment which will take the council 's budget down to the standard spending assessment and I will speak to that er when I come to move that amendment . |
| 14 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces . |
| 15 | Some activists were disappointed at the emphasis on legal measures and discouragement of ‘ direct action ’ and felt that legislation did not go far enough in tackling the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 16 | If the terms of reference you have in mind are not precise , or if they are not explicitly stated , you may not go far enough in your investigations or you may stray outside the limits that your boss or client has in mind . |
| 17 | 15 of them , together with Austria , issued a formal objection to the conference 's final statement , claiming that it did not go far enough in setting goals for limiting global warming , or in guaranteeing aid to developing countries . |
| 18 | The end of the season could not come quickly enough for Atkinson . |
| 19 | First , a number of historical studies have shown that the nuclear family was common before the industrial revolution , if only because people did not live long enough for older relatives to live near or with their younger kin . |
| 20 | He said they did not get near enough to the 92-year-old Queen Mother 's third-floor room to pose a security risk . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll not get near enough under his staff to use that , ’ he sneered . |
| 22 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 23 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |
| 24 | It is impossible to see how the European Parliament , with its seventy national and political groupings , could ever form coherently enough for true parliamentary debate and opposition to take place . |
| 25 | PATIENTS so short-sighted they could scarcely see their car from 25 yards can now see well enough without glasses or contact lenses to read its number plate . |
| 26 | An officer said : ‘ It may be that they just did n't act quickly enough for him . ’ |
| 27 | He probably could n't even speak clearly enough at this point for anyone to hear him properly . |
| 28 | And the other stylists occasionally have to interpret if clients do n't speak clearly enough for her . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't work hard enough at marriage — it 's remained a huge sadness to me ’ |
| 30 | Labour did n't work hard enough at prising off that glove ; at challenging Thatcher 's theology of individual self-sufficiency ; instead it rejected the radical compassion of international socialism for the gloss and shine of Thatcher-style politics . |