Example sentences of "[pron] is [not/n't] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 However , the evidence so far suggests that it is not enough to persuade businesspeople that rates will really be fixed forever .
33 And it is not enough to devote four pages to ‘ sexual orientation ’ and then lamely say it deserves more attention .
34 It is not enough to weep for ourselves ; we have to be able to weep for others .
35 It is not enough to explain this , as some outsiders and many insiders did , by invoking some theory of social inertia , to the effect that Libyans still had a Bedouin mentality .
36 There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements .
37 It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence .
38 It is not enough to say merely ‘ I accuse . ’
39 ( It is not enough to say that you learnt martyrhood from your parents .
40 It is not enough to say the words ‘ I suppose I could murder someone ’ ; we must own it within our hearts .
41 The third talk brought the comment : ‘ It is not enough to say to the hungry , ‘ Be fed ’ , or to the naked , ‘ Be clothed ’ . ’
42 It is not enough to say , ‘ Divorce if your marriage does n't suit you , ’ for marriage is a one-flesh relationship .
43 It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles .
44 It is not enough to say , as successive reports from the IMF or the World Bank have tended to do , that it all depends on governments and that it is up to them how the economy prospers .
45 It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways .
46 It is not enough to say that most asylum applicants are deserving because they come from ’ unstable ’ or ’ strife-torn ’ countries .
47 It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply .
48 It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch .
49 It is not enough to find a woman .
50 It is not enough to begin every quotation with " Taylor says … " or " Thomson writes … " or when memory and initiative fall " some historians say …
51 It is not enough to remove barriers to success .
52 It is not enough to change to a new paragraph at intervals just because you know that a block of text is always broken up in this way .
53 In short , it is not enough to discover needs and legislate to meet them ; the actual means by which the legislative intentions are put into practice are of equal importance .
54 So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art .
55 It is not enough to have a wish to improve the quality of your reports , price lists etc .
56 An American poet , Carolyn Kizer , says that in the arts ‘ it is not enough to have just great personalities .
57 It is not enough to have only one of these criteria in common .
58 It is not enough to have relationships with only one or two other people who are very close .
59 Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants .
60 It is not enough to have a political policy , and it is not enough to have a defence policy just to give it a name .
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