Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 2 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 3 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 4 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 5 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 6 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 7 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 8 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 9 | I also thought that our style did not try hard enough to persuade or unite . |