Example sentences of "not enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But taking care is not enough to stop the kind of terrible crimes that are so often carried out by people who are truly evil or sick . |
| 3 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 4 | In general , there are many situations without a check in which enough of the energy of the returning hammer will be absorbed to prevent the hammer reaching the string for a second time , but not enough to stop the hammer bouncing up some way towards the string . |
| 5 | Not enough to stop them . " |
| 6 | The thought sobered Rory slightly , but not enough to stop him going for the gun . |
| 7 | In the second period the Wildcats came back strongly , clawing back the deficit … but not enough to stop the Milton Keynes Kings from crowning their day with a 12-8 victory |
| 8 | She had no money when she came from India , except for a little in bonds , or something , but not enough to live on . |
| 9 | Retirement benefits are not enough to live on , so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support . |
| 10 | That 's not enough to draw any conclusions about the cause . |
| 11 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 12 | The Sharks put some bite into their performance in the second and third periods but not enough to deny the Stars a sparkling victory 17-11 and a place nearer the final of the Autumn Trophy . |
| 13 | It is not enough to weep for ourselves ; we have to be able to weep for others . |
| 14 | The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it . |
| 15 | But that is again not enough to explain God 's reaction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Last night was a light easterly — might have checked the ebb a fraction , but not enough to matter . |
| 18 | The energy left over , about 30 GeV , is not enough to create W particles , if electroweak theory is correct . |
| 19 | As though Bigwig 's angry impatience , Pipkin 's terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with , the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind . |
| 20 | So their revolt is fraught with contradictions — resilient and yet pessimistic , they have the stamina to survive and not enough to spare . |
| 21 | It is not enough to give folk dances theatrical form by opening out their patterns , paying increased attention to the relationship of step to music and developing any unique style of movement . |
| 22 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 23 | It contained much of what the country needs to get out of recession but not enough to give any of us the confidence to believe that the recovery is about to begin . |
| 24 | It is not enough to give him the facts . |
| 25 | Unfortunately this was still not enough to give them a parliamentary majority as the Legislative Council contained four members who would be nominated by the Governor . |
| 26 | But that was not enough to give Mussolini the bargaining leverage he wanted . |
| 27 | Coun. John Williams , leader of Darlington borough council , said their £10.324m. standard spending assessment the amount the Government says they need to provide services was not enough to give the town its planned facelift . |
| 28 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 29 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 30 | Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse . |