Example sentences of "[pron] was 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 | She was not here to enjoy herself — well , not primarily — but to get that interview under way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Stand-in keeper Trevor Matthewson immediately produced a penalty save from Jimmy Quinn , but it was not enough to save the Blues . |
| 6 | But it was not enough to save the company 's jobs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 11 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods . |
| 15 | It was not enough to treat students like children , the clinical aspects of nurse education were almost non-existent on the course . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 18 | But inevitably , it was not enough to kiss fingers or allow a caress at arm 's length : she wanted much , much more . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | But it was not enough to commend Stanley to the City of Worcester Conservative and Unionist Association . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | It was not enough to have the Commander-in-Chief 's approval to set up his unit . |
| 23 | For Lewis it was not enough to have the Bible : you had to learn how to read it . |
| 24 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 25 | That it was not enough to have a health care system that treated the symptoms , it had to tackle the root cause of the problem . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was not enough to pull America out of recession nor was it enough to save George Bush from defeat . |
| 28 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 29 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |
| 30 | ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly . |