Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After its inaugural run to Fleetwood on April 9th 1958 , the prototype twin-car operated Coastal Tours , since loading platforms on the tramroad were not long enough to accommodate it . |
| 2 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 3 | In April last year managing director Hugh Collinson revealed that , during his holidays in the Virgin Isles , he had been miffed to find that the runways at the local airport were not long enough to take Airtours ' jets . |
| 4 | In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground . |
| 5 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 6 | At the time that Salam and Weinberg proposed their theory , few people believed them , and particle accelerators were not powerful enough to reach the energies of 100 GeV required to produce real W , w , or Q particles . |
| 7 | It was the marginal cultivators that took land on rabassa morta , who found tithes and feudal dues an intolerable burden , and they were not powerful enough to challenge either the large farmers or the aristocrats from whom they held their lands . |
| 8 | When the time came for the cake to be cut , Breeze handed the knife to Susan — but her wrists were not strong enough to saw through the solid mass . |
| 9 | Women who could carry a child under each arm on a day 's shopping trip were told they were not strong enough to do men 's work ; that lifting and lugging were better left to the lads after all . |
| 10 | Late in the nineteenth century , however , they were not strong enough to resist European troops . |
| 11 | The boys were not strong enough to handle the heavy boat at flood tides so Mabel had to cope then . |
| 12 | Although both Downing Street and the Treasury welcomed them , the figures were not strong enough to indicate whether economic recovery was finally under way . |
| 13 | HWIM and Hearsay-II 's acoustic and language models were not good enough to map accurately the relationship between the input and linguistic descriptions of the utterance . |
| 14 | Because they were only half the size of a mature Thoroughbred , they were not tall enough to see over their stable doors or internal walls so that when someone opened the stable doors , the weanlings would attempt to climb the walls in sheer terror ! |
| 15 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 16 | Unsurprisingly , the Godwins were not radical enough to take this in their stride . |
| 17 | Although the paper stated that the measurements of the neutrons were not accurate enough to determine if the fusion was thermo -nuclear , there was a great desire that Britain 's prestige should be boosted by the ZETA ‘ triumph ’ following the nation 's ‘ backwardness in Sputnik research ’ ( the Soviet satellite having been launched in October 1957 ) . |
| 18 | The results in this section were not comprehensive enough to enable firm conclusions to be drawn . |
| 19 | But they were not content merely to question the economic rule of the landowners , they also began to question the social and political structure of power in feudal societies . |
| 20 | With grants available to all who could gain entry to university or polytechnic , initial teaching training courses came to be filled , in part , with young people whose ‘ A ’ level grades were not high enough to gain entrance on conventional university course . |
| 21 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 22 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 23 | Its regional press and magazine holdings went back some time but were not large enough to qualify it as a media company . |
| 24 | One was that patrimonies were not large enough to maintain several brothers in the style to which they were accustomed : perhaps because the survival of several brothers was becoming more common at this social level , noble younger brothers often had to seek their fortunes far afield , whether in an ecclesiastical or in a secular career . |
| 25 | Both Jim McFadden and Philip McNamara are out with long-term injuries , while Pat McAllister , Joe Kerr , Sean McKenna and Marty Magee were not fit enough to take part in Friday 's match . |
| 26 | This time his 38-year-old legs were not quick enough to cut off the corners and trap his quarry for even the slightest roughing-up . |
| 27 | But we Italians were not foolish enough to bury our past completely . ’ |
| 28 | She said a third man being sought by the police had telephoned a Kirkby inspector and said he was sure the case would end because witnesses were not brave enough to give evidence . |
| 29 | The parties were not able completely to disregard these claims for a number of reasons . |
| 30 | Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable . |