Example sentences of "[verb] enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF you ca n't entice enough customers into the showroom , tempt them through the letterbox . |
| 2 | His foreign debt has been repaid and he has even amassed enough hard currency reserves to buy , if necessary , oil from Iran and Libya . |
| 3 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 4 | He stuck with his ideas , and for a year did all kinds of manual work as a casual labourer till he eventually had amassed enough money to start a grocery business with a friend . |
| 5 | Billing then threw himself into land speculation , writing , yacht broking , and ‘ ship-running ’ , and by 1913 had amassed enough capital to found a yard on Southampton Water , where he pioneered the construction of flying boats ( ‘ supermarines ’ ) . |
| 6 | This Leftist Unity party may steal enough votes from the ruling Socialists in the 29 October elections to threaten the comfortable majority predicted for Mr Gonzalez 's party , which seeks its third term in office . |
| 7 | A successful Home Secretary needs enough versatility and openness of mind to listen to what is said before making a choice between tinkering with the status quo and the more radical alternatives which are open to him . |
| 8 | We have seen various ways in which programs can behave unpredictably : the normal form needs enough structure to characterise all of these . |
| 9 | He does n't want a running file , he just needs enough detail to know who 's running things , who 's in charge of it , with phone numbers so we can pass people on to the correct person , okay . |
| 10 | Poor shacks housing local families are interspersed with grand villas and there are lots of half built homes scattered around owned by Anguillans who live abroad and return to the island when they have earned enough money to add the next storey . |
| 11 | Some dealers do n't mind wiping out a client in this way if they have earned enough commission from the deal . |
| 12 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 13 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 14 | His fault here is that he has not organised enough feedback . |
| 15 | ‘ If the women are n't well fed , they ca n't concentrate enough to study . |
| 16 | The working class in capitalist societies has enjoyed , in the long term , a rise in the standard of living , and labour movements have won enough welfare concessions to ease the lot of many of the poor . |
| 17 | erm It keeps it going that way because you know , six games unbeaten , it 's nice , it 's nice to be unbeaten , but we just have n't won enough have we ? |
| 18 | From the moment the 1957 White Paper was published , the Army Council maintained discreet but relentless pressure on the Government to increase the ceiling as commitments grew , just as the General Staff had predicted they would do , and as recruiting figures showed that it was practicable to find enough men to take ‘ the Queen 's Shilling ’ . |
| 19 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 20 | Many science and engineering departments already struggle to find enough students with good A levels . |
| 21 | As well for garden planting for show or cutting , thy make stately pot-grown plants , but only for one year as they are unable to find enough plant nutrients to sustain them for another year . |
| 22 | But the National Communications Union believes BT will be forced to introduce compulsory redundancies for the first time this year because it will be unable to find enough volunteers . |
| 23 | Obviously , individuals that either fail to find enough food for themselves or unwisely and fatally expose themselves to predators tend to die young and to leave few offspring . |
| 24 | This reorganization was all very well , but David Stirling 's priority was to find enough men of sufficient calibre to fill all these vacancies . |
| 25 | The most difficult thing when writing about Milton is to find enough superlatives to describe him . |
| 26 | In old villages , the greater bargaining power tended to be with the lord and the larger landowners ; the peasantry lost status as they had to sacrifice more and more to find enough land to feed themselves . |
| 27 | He himself admits that both the continental staff and the locally recruited waitresses are skilful , but privately he regrets that it is no longer possible to find enough male British waiters , as he feels this would ‘ look better ’ . |
| 28 | Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done , but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack . |
| 29 | It is quite amazing that the opposing factions seem unable to find enough common ground to decide on a coaching appointment . |
| 30 | But it did n't take Jefferson long to find enough money to set up a factory to make golf clubs , and it does n't take a lot of imagination to guess who provided the money . ’ |