Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It believes that audit committees and the obligatory rotation of audit partners may not go far enough to convince the public of their independence , and suggests that shareholders should be more involved in appointing auditors , determining the scope of the audit , and in the decision to obtain other services from the auditing firm . |
| 2 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 3 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 4 | On the verandah of the plantation house Auguste Lepine heard the commotion in the compound but in the half-light could not see clearly enough to identify its cause . |
| 5 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 6 | Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below . |
| 7 | ‘ He told us he could n't see anywhere else to go and he 'd like to join the team . |
| 8 | Plenty of people in Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan would be delighted , as they would not have so far to go to buy drinks , groceries and cigarettes . |
| 9 | Any attempt to frame a definition along these lines , however , would run aground because , although such a definition could be made fairly general , it would not discriminate sharply enough to provide a guarantee of hyponymy : |
| 10 | The baby saw it happening but could do nothing to stop it , its pudgy fingers would not close tightly enough to grasp the string … . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't start too soon to take care of your skin , ’ Alice said . |
| 12 | Erm against that there is this elephant which appears , and you say we might have it and find a zoo for it , and in fact we ca n't move fast enough to find the zoo . |
| 13 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 14 | They do n't have enough oxygen because you just ca n't breathe fast enough to use up that oxygen in that tremendous burst of power . |
| 15 | In these circumstances our concerns are not that community care changes are a step too far , but that they will not go far enough to produce radical change . |
| 16 | Thrombolytic therapy alone will not work sufficiently rapidly to relieve the pain , nor will intravenous beta blockade . |
| 17 | You know it 's a mathematical er er fact that it wo n't take any longer to go along . |
| 18 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 19 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 20 | The optical fibre cable recently laid to Number 10 Downing Street joined a network which the group can not spread fast enough to meet demand . |
| 21 | At frequencies above ο max the dipoles can not move fast enough to follow the alternating field so both ε′ and ε′′ are low . |
| 22 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 23 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 24 | If you can not wait any longer to buy , the next step is to work out what you can afford to borrow , and from there the likely price range of your new house . |
| 25 | We can not afford any longer to waste the abilities of 80 per cent of all the children in the maintained system by relegating them to a ‘ worse ’ form of education . |
| 26 | The bureau can not operate quickly enough to give us anything approaching a real-time set of accounts . |