Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the current trend continues , the landowners to whom the bothies belong , could decide that enough is enough and withdraw their permission for usage . |
| 2 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
| 3 | Other critics shared his view that enough was enough and gave both Marilyn French 's The War Against Women and Susan Faludi 's Backlash a pretty cool reception . |
| 4 | I got some more sedatives in anticipation , and eventually had to turn him out when he decided one night that enough was enough and kicked several large holes in the stable wall . |
| 5 | However , J. came to the decision that enough was enough and all he wanted now was to get out of the RAF and pursue a civilian career . |
| 6 | so it came as no surprise when Audrey Roberts decided that enough was enough and stormed out , leaving Alf puzzled and in the lurch . |
| 7 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 9 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 10 | I felt ostracized by most of the other able-bodied students and so was more than just glad of her company . |
| 11 | But at this moment the thought of leaving the valley — her home , her existence — and not being here if , by some chance , he should return … yet this expectation confused her . |
| 12 | And it became difficult , so in the end , rather than committing myself when people phoned up saying can you come and do a job for me , rather than do it badly and not being there and being unreliable I 'd say : ‘ No . |
| 13 | In other words , there are certain roles which are tailor-made for certain people who will go along and just be more or less themselves , and other roles which do require a lot of — if you like — psychoanalysis beforehand to get the most out of the part . ’ |
| 14 | The vehicle must be going towards the ‘ limits ’ and also be within or partly within the zig-zag lines , i.e. the ‘ zebra controlled area ’ . |
| 15 | Either there is ownership and the rights and obligations that go with it , or there is not and neither are there nor can there be those rights and obligations . |
| 16 | This chap with the leg or something who wants to see you said something about being or having been a patient , but not being here as one now , and as he 's loaded with flowers for you and I did n't know how Old Red would take it , I used the sterilizer . ’ |
| 17 | Rosemary said more or less the same thing to Leith when next she saw her , and Leith realised she could not interfere , but just be there when Rosemary needed a friend . |
| 18 | Atkinson shaded it , but both were home and dry by the 53rd minute . |
| 19 | A basic scanner can capture a dot as either being there or not , it is a binary device . |