Example sentences of "[pron] be not [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Onassis said , ‘ I am rich , but I am not rich enough to pay for all this ! ’ |
| 2 | Babbage adds : ‘ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question . ’ |
| 3 | But I 'm not clever enough to say for sure , so I keep my mouth shut . |
| 4 | At Church Bridge people were paddling in the still pools beside the running water and throwing sticks out into the mainstream which reluctant dogs stared at and barked as though to say , " I may be daft but I 'm not daft enough to go splashing through that lot . " |
| 5 | In my mind 's eye , I imagined her nestling warm and soft in the palms of my hands , trustingly accepting morsels of moistened wafer from between my lips , maybe cooing a little — not to say thank you , I 'm not daft enough to think that — because she would be so happy . |
| 6 | I 'm not pushy enough to dig out real controversies , and I ca n't get worked up about red-hot issues . |
| 7 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 8 | The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down . |
| 9 | I 'm not stupid enough to let myself get carried away by righteous anger and reveal my presence . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not stupid enough to think that . |
| 11 | Anyway I 'm not naïve enough to forget that if we go dancing you 'll immediately be surrounded by hundreds of your female fans ! ’ |
| 12 | I really would like to comment further , but I 'm not able so to do er we have all heard the autumn statement er from the Chancellor of the Exchequer last week , following on from that we expect to receive the draft standard spending assessment for Suffolk on or about the twenty sixth of this month , er and it really is , will be er when we have that indication that er Policy Committee will give to er , pull together the strings for the preparation of next year 's budget . |
| 13 | But is it I mean I 'm not old enough to remember the war or |
| 14 | I 'm not ambitious enough to try for the top . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not tough enough to toe the line . ’ |
| 16 | I was not sensitive enough to realize that it was all my fault , and that if I had n't considered him common , he would n't have been so clumsy . |
| 17 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 18 | Eventually , I came to my senses and accepted that I was not fit enough to train like a 2:10 marathoner . |
| 19 | Even though I put a lot of work into the gigs , I was not foolish enough to believe they were important when we were playing to 40 people in London . |
| 20 | Another , quite separate , reason why the idea of watertight categories of psychosis has never seemed very plausible to psychologists stems from the difficulty of defining the outer boundaries of insanity and the existence of so-called ‘ borderline ’ disorders that carry the overall flavour of schizophrenia or manic-depression , but which are not severe enough to meet the diagnostic criteria for either . |
| 21 | These are companies , partnerships , unincorporated associations or trusts which are not large enough to qualify as ordinary business investors on the size test ( see page 36 below ) . |
| 22 | He had only one candle which was not powerful enough to start such a blaze so quickly whilst the fire was whitened ash . ’ |
| 23 | It is inevitably the case that these tend to be people who are not rich enough to engage in high-powered tax planning , or who , for lack of knowledge or advice , fail to take the necessary precautionary action . |
| 24 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Even if you are not lucky enough to have , as John Creasey did , a police officer as a neighbour or fellow member of some institution , you are likely to find on the whole that a visit to your local police station will pay off . |
| 26 | You 're not strong enough to push him |
| 27 | And you 're not strong enough to throw him out . |
| 28 | Yeah , but you 're not stupid enough to sell them to me would you ? |
| 29 | He had kept making remarks like ‘ You 're not really good enough to make the team ’ or ‘ You 're not good enough to beat Mike McFarlane and Cameron . ’ |
| 30 | oh right , what saying ? , you 're not brainy enough to go to college |