Example sentences of "was n't [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank God her college was n't yet fashionable enough to attract more than the odd one or two . |
| 2 | Thornton was n't quite good enough to take his title , but Eubank might soon be so tired that someone , somewhere , will catch up with him . |
| 3 | There were some er farms say of fifteen or twenty acres which was n't quite big enough to make a living . |
| 4 | And mostly those were er married men who had a small place of their own which was n't quite big enough to keep them full time . |
| 5 | When she finally reached his side , he looked up , his eyes dark with an anger he was n't quite quick enough to conceal . |
| 6 | ‘ I was n't quite brave enough to put the champagne in the fridge on election night , ’ said Edmund Vestey , chairman of the Campaign for Hunting . |
| 7 | Syl went out of his way to preserve a semblance of youthfulness , wearing his clothes untidily and even eating in a haphazard fashion as though he was n't quite old enough to have learned proper manners . |