Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] not enable " in BNC.

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1 We ca n't make that observation directly , because our feelings of cold do n't enable us to discriminate temperatures that finely .
2 Many teachers found that this diet did not enable their pupils to succeed .
3 It was , doubtless , agreeable for Mary Smith to become more Mary Smith , but that process did not enable her to find a job or make a living .
4 All three IBOA Resolutions on the Order Paper were adopted unanimously and as space does not enable us to reproduce the full statements made to Congress a precis is given here-under .
5 He therefore did not know whether , if the contract had been carefully read , the company would have observed that the information provided from the analysis did not enable it to be notified of matters that needed investigation .
6 The model does not enable us to examine the effects of changes in aggregate demand on both output and prices .
7 At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions .
8 The receptive field does not enable one to predict the responses to movements of a spot in the directions of the arrows ; these are shown round the outside of the figure .
9 But as the limits of the human memory did not enable men to retain beyond a very limited number of names ; and even if it had , as it would have required a most inconvenient portion of time , to run over in discourse , as many names of individuals , and of individual qualities , as there is occasion to refer to in discourse , it was necessary to have contrivances of abridgment .
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