Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to make " in BNC.

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1 Triumph did develop the Stag a little , but not enough to make the last of the series significantly better than the first .
2 The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch .
3 It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere .
4 You are Ferdinando 's wife , he is the father of your sons , is that not enough to make you trust in him ? ,
5 Ouch , that really hurt — but not enough to make us regret a word .
6 But this difficulty is not enough to make us abandon the theory .
7 But not enough to make old Deirdre suspicious .
8 One way round this is to tie a tiny hook to the hair and to bend inwards slightly the hook point — enough to prevent fish from being hooked but not enough to make hooking bait too difficult .
9 Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving .
10 That 's not enough to make mummy well . ’
11 The pressure might help but not enough to make commercial fusion , not at the level to create measurable heat .
12 Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him .
13 If the performance of the 80586 and the MIPS R4000 is only off plus or minus 20% , it 's not enough to make the hassle worth it .
14 If you have just a few mulberries , not enough to make a pudding or an ice , arrange them in a little pyramid , if possible on shiny green leaves , on a plain glass compote dish , with a separate bowl of sugar .
15 Myth no. 3 : playing 18 holes of go If or a couple of sets of tennis at the weekend is enough to keep you fit Exercising once a week is not enough to make you fit .
16 It would be different if you really did love him , but I do n't think you do … certainly not enough to make the kind of sacrifices that would be necessary if you did marry him . ’
17 Only if he really craned his neck sideways could he see anything of the front bedroom windows and then not enough to make the effort worthwhile .
18 You can t disfigure a face — not enough to make it unrecognisable , anyway — without blood .
19 There would be men enough left with them to ensure their safe withdrawal , not enough to make it worth his while disabling them .
20 ‘ No more than two cups , certainly not enough to make him drunk .
21 In the UK , the FRG and the USA the proportions varied between 6 and 10 per cent , which was not enough to make a significant difference .
22 Not enough to make him suddenly aware of the difference in their ages .
23 But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass .
24 MUFC may find that scoring against teams Id not enough to make them roll over and give up anymore .
25 But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities .
26 In designing the course , full account has been taken of the need to provide students with the skills necessary not only to make a contribution to the current environment , but also to be sufficiently adaptable to the exciting future of the industry .
27 It is now possible not only to make almost seamless composites of existing photographs and to alter images in such a way that the changes may not be detected , but — using mathematics instead of a camera — it is possible to create images that are nearly photographic in their realism .
28 That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future .
29 The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them .
30 The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage .
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