Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to satisfy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply to add water to a dry powder was not enough to satisfy this ritual urge . |
| 2 | But success at Covent Garden and Sadler 's Wells , invitations from the Paris Opéra and La Scala , Milan , the chance to collaborate with leading composers and painters — all this was not enough to satisfy him or occupy his energies fully . |
| 3 | Liberalisation in the economic sphere was not enough to satisfy their demands . |
| 4 | This was enough to show that he did not object to the aid in principle ; but it was not enough to satisfy the king , who refused his offer and demanded £1000 . |
| 5 | Not enough to satisfy |
| 6 | France Telecom has moved to try to improve the situation — nearly a month ago , the operator reviewed its objectives and decided to offer GSM service to 90% of the French population in 1994 , rather than in 1997 , as it had previously planned , but that was not enough to satisfy the new government . |
| 7 | Lancaster 's oath , however , was not enough to satisfy the court , and Mortimer launched a punitive raid lasting eight days on Lancaster 's lands in Leicestershire . |
| 8 | as if the casualties being inflicted on members of the armed forces of both parties , not to speak of the crews of the largely neutral shipping involved , were not enough to satisfy the appetite of some mythical god of war , further carnage was developing , mainly in the latter half of the war , among the civilian populations of both countries . |
| 9 | The scepticism needs dealing with not only to satisfy scientific readers , but because the theory of determinism in this book has its most important empirical support in science . |
| 10 | The quasi-legal requirements of the Cadbury code of practice and new auditing and accounting rules , putting the responsibility on directors not only to satisfy themselves that adequate systems and controls are in place and that the business is a going concern but to declare this , compound the risk . |
| 11 | A proper account of referential communication must grapple with the intrinsically reciprocal nature of conversation , not merely to satisfy the objections of sociolinguists but also to discover if a deeper analysis of discourse clarifies the procedures by which children use and make sense of verbal information . |
| 12 | There are many reasons why we eat — and it is certainly not simply to satisfy the pangs of hunger . |
| 13 | But a promise of jam tomorrow was n't enough to satisfy the Commission , which issued a Reasoned Opinion against the UK 's implementation of the Drinking Water Directive in April . |
| 14 | ‘ Whatever you and Peter were up to last night , ’ he went on savagely , ‘ it was n't enough to satisfy you . |