Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] n't [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the debut album was n't enough to send such theories flying towards the bin , tonight deals them a death-blow . |
| 2 | Being brought up in a christian home is n't enough to make you a christian . |
| 3 | But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child . |
| 4 | as if the cold was n't enough to put up with , Detective Lomax 's disgust and discomfort were increased by the damp clinging fog , which was gradually thickening and reducing visibility . |
| 5 | A demonstration outside a Wiltshire county council budget meeting was n't enough to save the workshops , at Swindon and Salisbury , from closure . |
| 6 | She hated him and she hated what he was capable of doing to her , but her hate was n't enough to stop herself from feeling the forbidden pleasure of his hands on her body . |
| 7 | We 'd already be irradiated if the water was n't there to absorb the radiation emitted by the fuel . ’ |
| 8 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 9 | Everyone but the columnists of the Daily Mail and the Daily Express knows that the dole is n't enough to live on and asks the rhetorical question , " How do people manage ? " |
| 10 | Mark Burke the second … the last few minutes were frightening … but thankfully Wolves 2-1 win was n't enough to stop Town going through 3-2 on aggregate … |
| 11 | But the money is n't there to do the proper job , it 's a , if the money was there to do the proper job , I 'd say great let's go ahead and do it , but in policy or principle it 's a wonder there 's a lot good things in it , but there is n't the money to do it . |
| 12 | Linda a spokesperson for the county 's education advisory committee says , A one year training course is n't enough to turn parents into teachers . |
| 13 | ‘ The Parliamentary system is n't there to give people a say in how the country is run but to delude them into thinking they have some power . |
| 14 | But their support was n't enough to inspire an Oxford victory … |
| 15 | But there comes a point when even a hat is n't enough to keep your hands warm , so do n't forget a pair of gloves . |