Example sentences of "[be] not a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem seems to be that social factors are not a strong enough time-cue . |
| 2 | A newspaper interview with the very successful American actress Brook Shields quoted her as saying that she constantly worries ‘ that I 'm not pretty enough , that I 'm too fat , that I 'm not smart enough and that I 'm not a good enough actress ’ . |
| 3 | Yes , but the pro-active , the good news often is not a good enough hook , I mean in my experience , the local media , they do want , the hook has to be , at least in the , in the initial phase has to be bad news . |
| 4 | ‘ Gentleman ’ is not a good enough word with which to describe him . |
| 5 | I mean realize that would be a very bad analogy with women , but nevertheless I think just the analogy on numbers is not a good enough argument for women . |
| 6 | People now realise that DOS is not a good enough basis for future systems , he said . |
| 7 | It is not a fine enough tree to recommend for a star position , but good in a hedge or to bulk up planting in a relatively wild corner of the garden . |
| 8 | However , so few of the possible quadgrams occur in the LOB ( and of those found , 70% only occur once ) that it would appear that the LOB corpus is not a large enough sample of text to provide a reliable quadgram model . |
| 9 | It 's not a good enough reason to like |
| 10 | We 'd have our own generator too , only there 's not a big enough head of water to our spring . |
| 11 | He 's not all that crazy about Pogo anyway — he says he is n't a strong enough character to keep me in order ! |
| 12 | THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one . |
| 13 | The discussion that Richard and I had , my recommendation was that it was not a big enough thing to cover a separate procedure for . |
| 14 | There was n't a wide enough field of vision to make much out , beyond the slime-laden walls of the pit , but , just for an instant , the Doctor could have sworn that something moved in the reflexive way of an uncomfortable sleeper . |
| 15 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 16 | It was n't a big enough room there . |
| 17 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |