Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 2 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 3 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 4 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 5 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 6 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 7 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 8 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 9 | I also thought that our style did not try hard enough to persuade or unite . |
| 10 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 11 | The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose ’ either in print or [ more likely ] in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . |
| 12 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 13 | The long residence time generally means that any harmful bacteria that enter an aquifer do not live long enough to pose a threat to anyone using groundwater . |
| 14 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 15 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 16 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |
| 17 | While his conclusions may be correct — and we discuss this at greater length in the next chapter — his evidence , unfortunately , does not go far enough to give weight to them . |
| 18 | Although para 8(a) of FRS1 refers to ss 248 and 249 CA 1985 , it does not go far enough to state properly whether the exemption does in effect apply to a small group . |