Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , to embark on such a step is not necessarily to succeed immediately in realising it . |
| 2 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 3 | She had no money when she came from India , except for a little in bonds , or something , but not enough to live on . |
| 4 | Retirement benefits are not enough to live on , so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support . |
| 5 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 6 | It is not enough to talk generally about reverence and respect any longer . |
| 7 | For example , it is not enough to talk simply in terms of the 103 ; the 103.2 , which formed part of a British system that we recommended in August 1985 was a completely different design from the present 103/4 . |
| 8 | I had seen Don sloping about the beach , still not satisfied with the surf , not enough to swim out and take shots , anyway . |
| 9 | The Jeep slammed into the gates some more , but still not enough to drive through . |
| 10 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 11 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 12 | She 'd got a pathetic little bit in the Post Office — she helped us all out from time to time — but not enough to set up anywhere . |
| 13 | In these circumstances I think it clear , given the diversity of immunities and of the policies underlying them , that it is not enough to ask simply whether Parliament can have intended to abolish a long-standing right of silence . |
| 14 | But of course it is not enough to point out that such claims can be made implicitly . |
| 15 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 16 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 17 | Not enough to see by . |
| 18 | The moon was hardly more than a pale sliver , and surely not enough to see by . |
| 19 | From a commercial point of view , there are not enough to go round . |
| 20 | When there are not enough to go round ? |
| 21 | So it 's all about sharing things out and it gets into this sort of fractions when we get when there 's not enough to go round and we have to start cutting things up cutting the pizza up . |
| 22 | But I mean , surely i if there 's not enough to go round then those that need it most should get most ? |
| 23 | There are community therapists , but not enough to go around . |
| 24 | It is not enough to say merely ‘ I accuse . ’ |
| 25 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 26 | These days it 's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply . |
| 27 | He could change his appearance , but not enough to become immediately unrecognisable . |
| 28 | Her anti-corruption stance is popular but probably not enough to overcome more powerful candidates . |
| 29 | But this was not enough to keep away mosquitoes , which started to arrive and drift towards the flames . |
| 30 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |