Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground . |
| 2 | ’ Again , it is not possible here to do these justice in the space available . |
| 3 | Due to lack of space , it was obviously not possible here to provide complete transcriptions of each interview , including the interviewer 's questions . |
| 4 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 5 | It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’ |
| 6 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 7 | Late in the nineteenth century , however , they were not strong enough to resist European troops . |
| 8 | The output from these is not strong enough to harm other animals , rarely rising about a single volt . |
| 9 | It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations . |
| 10 | The statistics are not reliable enough to answer this question with any confidence , but an estimate may be made given certain assumptions . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , it is not clear how to characterise those contexts , like the following , in which a hyponym can be more normal than one of its superordinates : |
| 12 | In those studies where the subject 's task is to simply watch slides it is not clear how to make this distinction , and indeed such studies have not shown clear differences between memory for central and peripheral information . |
| 13 | The results in this section were not comprehensive enough to enable firm conclusions to be drawn . |
| 14 | But the Chronicle itself is not comprehensive enough to make such doubts irresistible ( see below ) , and skaldic poetry is sometimes a valuable supplement to our other sources , especially on the fighting of Æthelred 's reign and Cnut 's activities in Scandinavia . |
| 15 | It is not unusual now to see several St. Albans and Harpeneden Members turn up twice a week . |
| 16 | One was that patrimonies were not large enough to maintain several brothers in the style to which they were accustomed : perhaps because the survival of several brothers was becoming more common at this social level , noble younger brothers often had to seek their fortunes far afield , whether in an ecclesiastical or in a secular career . |
| 17 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 18 | The intelligentsia were required to fill the role vacated by other classes , but , in the more advanced borderland principalities , their social significance was not large enough to advance national demands in isolation . |
| 19 | It really is not good enough to ignore such debate entirely and grouse instead over simplistic comparisons between expenditure on different specialities . |
| 20 | Persson has shown that in many cases , the database coverage is often not long enough to show major changes in science . |
| 21 | It might simply be that the amount of learning involved in such a task was not great enough to generate biochemical changes big enough to be measured . |
| 22 | In Britain , the threat of writs is not great enough to make non-executive directors follow suit . |
| 23 | Yet , as we have already seen , even in a situation like this , primitive internal superego structures are still likely to exist , even if these are not mature enough to render external coercion unnecessary . |
| 24 | The parties were not able completely to disregard these claims for a number of reasons . |
| 25 | So , it is not sufficient merely to reduce all Oedipus myths to one , there has to be a retelling in a different form . |
| 26 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 27 | The Department of Transport , they were very little help , we contacted them and after initial propaganda visits , we were told that sixty thousand tons of traffic was n't worth bothering about it was n't large enough to warrant any help or subsidy . |
| 28 | Do n't despair if you were n't lucky enough to win this time . |
| 29 | Do n't despair if you were n't lucky enough to win this time . |
| 30 | er , well I 'm , I 'm a waitress and erm when I 'm working I consider the restaurant my stage and I have to be somebody else because I 'm worried that you know who I am is n't good enough to entertain these people . |