Example sentences of "not [adj] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the fellow could shout , but the human voice is not loud enough to carry that far . |
| 2 | The strip of ice was not broad enough to skate on but you could run over the crackling , frosty grass and leap onto it and slide the best part of thirty yards . |
| 3 | Similarly , the range is not broad enough to produce a median ratio . |
| 4 | About 30 of the shops are now profitable , according to Mr Bishko , but not profitable enough to cover overheads — which are rather higher than he had anticipated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , Sir John , a rich holding , but not rich enough to murder for . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dacia was not strong enough to beat off the barbarians , and not rich enough to satisfy them once they had conquered it . |
| 11 | And Onassis said , ‘ I am rich , but I am not rich enough to pay for all this ! ’ |
| 12 | oh right , what saying ? , you 're not brainy enough to go to college |
| 13 | Political fear of the working class was not acute enough to bring about a widespread demand to conciliate the workers ; rather the 1890s saw attempts to suppress trade unionism through the law courts , lock-outs and the use of ‘ blackleg ’ labour . |
| 14 | Because they were only half the size of a mature Thoroughbred , they were not tall enough to see over their stable doors or internal walls so that when someone opened the stable doors , the weanlings would attempt to climb the walls in sheer terror ! |
| 15 | The apparent trend to the Left in the Labour Party was in keeping with the political atmosphere of the times , but it was not strong enough to force the abandoning of official opposition to any form of the Unity Campaign . |
| 16 | The chemical smells of modern tap water may stop a cat drinking from its bowl , but they are not strong enough to drive the animal back physically from the corner of the kitchen floor where the bowl is placed . |
| 17 | Jaggers was her lawyer , and at her trial he managed to show that she was not strong enough to kill anyone . |
| 18 | Unfortunately Infinitary rule 1 as it stands is not strong enough to give us a complete system when the set of basic values is infinite . |
| 19 | And she was not strong enough to stop what was going to happen . |
| 20 | Thus a free-running rhythm indicates that the time-cues are not strong enough to entrain the body clock to a 24-hour period . |
| 21 | She was not strong enough to say or do anything . |
| 22 | Bridgend had a strong side out … not strong enough to hold the cherry and whites though … |
| 23 | When the time came for the cake to be cut , Breeze handed the knife to Susan — but her wrists were not strong enough to saw through the solid mass . |
| 24 | You 're not strong enough to push him |
| 25 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the end , it would seem that she is not strong enough to resist Comus 's wiles without the intervention of Sabrina . |
| 28 | Late in the nineteenth century , however , they were not strong enough to resist European troops . |
| 29 | The girl was not strong enough to resist him . |
| 30 | the design was not strong enough to resist the forces exerted while Span 5–6 was being cantilevered out from Pier 6 |