Example sentences of "[noun] [be] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the injustices against which prisoners struggle are not merely to do with the way in which we run our prisons . |
| 2 | Words are n't enough to stop what 's happening between you . |
| 3 | Lina 's role was to persuade the Ashleys that journalists were not there to pry , but to promote . |
| 4 | The role of the occupational health department is not only to provide a service to those who are unwell but to assist the employer to gain the maximum benefit from the labour force by maintaining and promoting health among staff , thus reducing absence . |
| 5 | A chapter is not enough to describe this fine mountain . |
| 6 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 7 | The notes of guidance to the Code stress that the purpose of any interview is not necessarily to obtain an admission but to obtain from the suspect his explanation of the facts . |
| 8 | The intention is not only to record the whereabouts of existing and established collections , but to make available to researchers up-to-date information about less well known groups of records , especially those still in private hands . |
| 9 | This is seen as crucial in attracting people away from the current crop of cramped top-of-the-range coupes — essential if the car is not simply to draw existing Bentley customers from the Turbo R. |
| 10 | ‘ Nick Faldo is not there to take it easy , but that 's Faldo 's game . |
| 11 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 12 | Natural daylight is not enough to allow for this process . |
| 13 | This is a superficial view of psychoanalytic theory , because it fails to see that the prime objective of Freud is not merely to explain the ‘ odd ’ actions of neurotics or primitives , but to use their actions to understand and explain what counts as ‘ normal ’ and ordinary action in Western societies . |
| 14 | Our appeal to our traditional supporters was not enough to outweigh our lack of success with those growing numbers who no longer count themselves as working class . |
| 15 | Because Earl Thorfinn was n't there to give permission , Otkel had not taken Paul with him , although Paul had begged . |
| 16 | And the effect was not only to strengthen the Reformers ' parliamentary position . |
| 17 | If the debut album was n't enough to send such theories flying towards the bin , tonight deals them a death-blow . |
| 18 | Edward was not only to regain the Angevin inheritance in France , but also the coast of Picardy , the Counties of Guines and Boulogne , and suzerainty over Brittany . |
| 19 | In two closely argued and provocative essays Alfred Rieber claimed that the object of the emancipation was not even to benefit the gentry ( let alone the peasantry ) , but rather to put the principal institutions of the autocracy , the treasury and the army , in a position to recover from the ravages of the Crimean War . |
| 20 | The loss of one vehicle and the leading tank 's offensive capability was not enough to cause a full scale withdrawal . |
| 21 | Even her blood was not enough to entice him . |
| 22 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 23 | Such a slight obstruction was not enough to affect the taking of the sortes , when they were opening the book with ceremony , both hands parting the leaves and a finger pointing the line . |
| 24 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 25 | as if massive trauma and often great suffering are not enough to face , those who are informed that they are infected have also to deal with social stigma ( unlike many other diseases ) . |
| 26 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
| 27 | Cnut may well have profited from this sort of process , for the sources are scanty and their silence on the matter of simony is not enough to rule it out . |
| 28 | I am sorry that the hon. Member for Blackburn is not here to set the hon. Member for Leeds , Central right . |
| 29 | Being brought up in a christian home is n't enough to make you a christian . |
| 30 | But , the VGA stresses , psychometric testing is not there to glean the wheat and discard the chaff . |