Example sentences of "not [verb] a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This implies that the Estate Agents ' dictionary does not cover a large enough subset of the language used in the Banking text to provide significantly representative collocations . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the Air Staff , who preferred the military version of the VC-7 , the V-1000 , could not make a strong enough case to offset the commercial and political arguments favouring the Britannia . |
| 3 | The hypothesis about the importance of making connections between different strategies will be extended to the learning of mathematics , and also to the teaching of children whose intelligence is normal but who have specific difficulties with reading and with mathematics , the hypothesis being that these children fail because they do not make a strong enough connection between different strategies . |
| 4 | Before Windows 3.1 , Windows was not considered a solid enough environment to allow that to happen , and all the information processing was limited to the server . |
| 5 | The problem with recent miscarriages of justice has been that the police have not done a thorough enough job . |
| 6 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 7 | On present form , some will not provide a big enough payout to clear off the loan , so you may have to pay higher monthly premiums to make up the shortfall . |
| 8 | " I 'm not wearing a proper enough business suit to meet Sir Willie in , " she moaned . |
| 9 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
| 10 | In the school system , many teachers do not have a strong enough grasp of the language to teach in it effectively . |
| 11 | ‘ OK ’ , they say ‘ I 'm not doing a good enough job at the moment . |
| 12 | The national rivers authority monitors water quality — but says greenpeace , is not doing a thorough enough job : |
| 13 | All major WordPerfect products will be developed for IBM OS/2 2.0 Although technically superior to Microsoft Windows and even offering Windows 3.0 software compatibility , OS/2 suffers from not having a large enough software base and not yet having reached a critical mass of users . |
| 14 | British machinery companies are not making a big enough effort to promote their products in the recently opened markets of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , according to an export consultant . |
| 15 | In any case , the police did not offer a high enough salary for any but the most inexperienced official . |
| 16 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 17 | She stood up suddenly , so that she could stamp the floor , annoyed because tennis shoes could n't make a big enough noise to suit her fury . |
| 18 | What the Arts Council will turn around and say is ‘ You have n't got a good enough director . ’ |
| 19 | I have n't got a sharp enough knife . |
| 20 | the only thing is I have n't got a big enough jug so I have to do half quantities . |
| 21 | This is n't giving a strong enough message that this murderous activity has to stop . |
| 22 | A narrow social grouping just does n't produce a rich enough mixture of ability and talent to regenerate a country . |
| 23 | As a father I do n't have a colourful enough vocabulary . |
| 24 | ‘ We needed uplighters , but we did n't have a regular enough ceiling grid for low-voltage halogens , so we had to use high-frequency fluorescents . ’ |
| 25 | They did n't have enough people with them , they did n't have a big enough army . |
| 26 | A. If you find a house or flat you could buy but ca n't get a large enough building society or bank mortgage , the local authority may be able to help in the following ways : |