Example sentences of "not [vb infin] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the school system , many teachers do not have a strong enough grasp of the language to teach in it effectively . |
| 8 | In any case , the police did not offer a high enough salary for any but the most inexperienced official . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A narrow social grouping just does n't produce a rich enough mixture of ability and talent to regenerate a country . |
| 12 | As a father I do n't have a colourful enough vocabulary . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | They did n't have enough people with them , they did n't have a big enough army . |
| 15 | 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 : |