Example sentences of "to have enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most people , older people want to have enough income for their needs and to live in homes which they can manage and keep warm . |
| 2 | The Conservatives there will be lucky to have enough members to carry a caber after Thursday , yet with proportional representation they would have at least 15 seats . |
| 3 | You will be anxious to have enough grazing for your livestock in spring , summer , and autumn , to make enough hay or silage for their winter keep , to provide additional cereals and roots to supplement the hay , and to grow enough cereals , potatoes , vegetables , and fruit for your own table . |
| 4 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 5 | Then I began modifying my own equipment because it just never sounded right to me ; it did n't seem to have enough of anything I wanted . |
| 6 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 7 | Meat was a treat kept for good days and when the pickings were poor , Win and her daughter were lucky to have enough potatoes and bread and cheese in the pantry . |
| 8 | If the Greeks do not get their debt under control — and that , be it repeated , means getting a 7%-of-GDP surplus on the ordinary part of their budget , so as to have enough money left over to pay what is due on the debt — they will one day find they can not sell the bonds that keep the debt going . |
| 9 | It was not a situation which worried him ; as he told George Baker , the best position for any poet was to have enough financial security to view in a detached and unenvious way the temporary reputations of more fashionable writers . |
| 10 | Out on the road , we were expected to have enough basic journalistic training and common-sense to ask the right questions . |
| 11 | We were expected to have enough initiative to overcome the physical problems , maybe when the streets were under water or covered in snow , to get to our appointment on time . |
| 12 | The poorest buy goods on a daily credit basis at high interest rates and , if they are unsuccessful with their sales , are forced to lower their prices towards the end of the day so as to have enough to pay back the loan . |
| 13 | My result does show there are exceptions — the jacanas are one — but the rule seems to have enough generality to invite explanation . |
| 14 | ‘ You seem to have enough bags . ’ |
| 15 | The bird brought her food , dropping it into her mouth so that she should not have to stop for the nourishment she needed in order to have enough strength to carry on . |
| 16 | I suppose in the First World War , I do n't remember an awful lot about it , we wer always seemed to have enough to eat but er I , I think the Second World War whatever there was it was fairly distributed . |
| 17 | ‘ But I 'm afraid Mrs Birkin is going to have to raid the freezer if we 're to have enough for three tonight . ’ |
| 18 | To have enough to eat was a luxury of extravagant proportions . |
| 19 | It 's important to have enough space and a well-thought out arrangement that allows both eating and cooking to take place without the one interfering with the other . |
| 20 | At first sight Burkina Faso — the ‘ Land of the Incorruptible ’ — would not appear to have enough wealth to make corruption possible . |
| 21 | If they are fortunate to have enough money , where are they to find out that that helpline exists and obtain the numbers ? |
| 22 | Macallister had one clear run at goal in the first half , and looked to have enough speed to round the keeper and score , but instead he pulled up clutching his back . |
| 23 | Commenting on the report , FAO director-general Edouard Saouma said : " Are we going to have enough good land to feed the extra 2.6 billion people who will be on this planet by the year 2025 ? " |
| 24 | One way around that might be then to have enough cadres on the ground in order to , to do it properly . |
| 25 | Ale was not often kept in barrels cos it did n't keep long enough to want to have enough of it . |
| 26 | They are under some degree of political control but they also need to have enough autonomy to carry out complex productive activity in an efficient way . |
| 27 | ‘ The NRA does n't seem to have enough clout , ’ Ms Murphy said . |
| 28 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 29 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 30 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |