Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , the FRG and the USA the proportions varied between 6 and 10 per cent , which was not enough to make a significant difference . |
| 2 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 3 | Erm as we were going through and we talked about a will , you said there there 's somebody you knew who would be able to , you know , who you 'd like to carry out your wishes if you were not here to carry them out yourself er I think it was , was it er John ? |
| 4 | She was not here to enjoy herself — well , not primarily — but to get that interview under way . |
| 5 | We were not there to look pretty at all . |
| 6 | An extra £3,500 had to be transferred from the leisure services central budget because there was not enough to produce publicity leaflets and posters . |
| 7 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 8 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 9 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 10 | He warned the jury that they were not there to judge anybody , but to decide how the unfortunate Mr Oliver had died , and if there was sufficient evidence to bring criminal proceedings against anybody . |
| 11 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 12 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 13 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 14 | Stand-in keeper Trevor Matthewson immediately produced a penalty save from Jimmy Quinn , but it was not enough to save the Blues . |
| 15 | But it was not enough to save the company 's jobs . |
| 16 | GARY Lineker scored his first goal today since being sidelined from the Japan League for three months with a broken foot but it was not enough to save Nagoya Grampus Eight from defeat in the opening match of the Nabisco Cup . |
| 17 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 18 | Charlie Vane , Bob Taylor and John Page had a single win apiece , but it was not enough to stop Frimley who scored through Robert Brittain ( 3 ) , Dick Culver ( 2 ) and Peter Glass to take the cup 6–3 . |
| 19 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 20 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 21 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 22 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |
| 23 | Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods . |
| 24 | It was not enough to treat students like children , the clinical aspects of nurse education were almost non-existent on the course . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , whatever success was achieved within these programmes it was not enough to change the general picture of an agricultural system which could only expand production by having access to more land . |
| 26 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 27 | But inevitably , it was not enough to kiss fingers or allow a caress at arm 's length : she wanted much , much more . |
| 28 | It was not enough to excel in the swimming and the running , which he knew he did ; what was going to be the good of getting good scores there and nullifying them with a duff riding round ? |
| 29 | But it was not enough to commend Stanley to the City of Worcester Conservative and Unionist Association . |
| 30 | It was not enough to have modern weapons and ‘ the best of young Irishmen ’ if the people did not understand the nature of the freedom for which they were fighting and that |