Example sentences of "do not [verb] enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old thick rad did not give enough clearance for a normal or any other type of fan . |
| 2 | The court announced that the charges against Christer Pettersson , a social outcast with a history of manslaughter and drugs offences , did not contain enough evidence for a guilty verdict . |
| 3 | However , all policemen belonged to lineages , and consequently the police force could not really handle those events ( such as the Ajdabiya elections ) which resulted in massive mobilization of populations : not because the numbers were too great , but because the police force did not contain enough men uninvolved on either side . |
| 4 | ‘ The recent announcement did not contain enough information for us to know what will really happen . |
| 5 | More investigation may well reveal that manufacturing industry simply did not pay enough to get the best people . |
| 6 | The problem last season was that they did not score enough goals . |
| 7 | His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees . |
| 8 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 9 | Sri Lanka did not grow enough rice to feed its people . |
| 10 | 5 FUTURE TEACHER TRAINING COURSE The potential teachers day held at Potters Bar did not generate enough local interest to become viable although several people from a wide variety of locations are showing interest — . |
| 11 | Thieves deliberately transported cattle across the boundaries of the police jurisdictions , and senior police officers did not exercise enough supervision to ensure that adjacent stations co-operated with each other . |
| 12 | Land suggested that Alvey 's group did not consult enough of the people who would use advanced computers ; that it had paid too little attention to international collaboration ; and that the committee focused on too narrow an area of activity . |
| 13 | Middle class legislators failed to confront the fact that large numbers of industrious working class men did not earn enough to keep a wife and children . |
| 14 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 15 | And even in an area which is working well , Next Directory , the company failed to capitalise on strong demand , which lifted sales by 49 per cent , because it did not hold enough stock . |
| 16 | After two passes through the US National Cancer Institute screen it did not show enough activity to be worth developing further . |
| 17 | She received no support from the father for the child , and had to rely upon charity and from what is called ‘ the food bank ’ because she did not receive enough money from the welfare services to feed the child . |
| 18 | She revelled in the benefits of being married to the Queen 's second son and did not spend enough time on her duties . |
| 19 | They were ill-informed in the sense that the conceptual basis for understanding such meaning was not carefully theorised , as well as in the more obvious sense that the travellers often simply did not know the language and did not spend enough time living in a particular society . |
| 20 | He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children , and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services . |
| 21 | At Great Dunmow Inspector Martin Reed said often people did not take enough care when leaving their cars , which could remain unlocked , or with keys in the ignition . |
| 22 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 23 | My husband did not have enough marks to pay the bill , so he offered to pay the equivalent amount in Sterling . |
| 24 | Bolshevik sources reveal that about half the population of the guberniia did not have enough to eat by then , and the position was no better by spring of 1922 . |
| 25 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 26 | The Death Grant had been introduced before the war to help families who did not have enough money to bury their dead . |
| 27 | Houses built over garages , which did not have enough columns to damp the lateral motion , crumpled to the ground in San Francisco |
| 28 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 29 | I did not have enough knowledge to enable me to make a complete computer model of the individual player 's contribution to the stroke . |
| 30 | They were borrowed from a nearby hotel when it was revealed that the castle did not have enough . |