Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 2 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 3 | He was initially given a senior position at the Command Centre in the United Nations but when the head of the European operation died in a car crash … which was subsequently proved to have been an accident and not sabotage as originally thought … |
| 4 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 5 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 6 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 7 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 8 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 9 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 10 | If you can not wait any longer to buy , the next step is to work out what you can afford to borrow , and from there the likely price range of your new house . |
| 11 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 12 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 13 | He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald . |
| 14 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 15 | The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose ’ either in print or [ more likely ] in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . |
| 16 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 17 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 18 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 19 | The Bundesbank can be — and has been — criticised for not going far enough to stimulate the German economy . |
| 20 | On the verandah of the plantation house Auguste Lepine heard the commotion in the compound but in the half-light could not see clearly enough to identify its cause . |
| 21 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 22 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 23 | Thrombolytic therapy alone will not work sufficiently rapidly to relieve the pain , nor will intravenous beta blockade . |
| 24 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 25 | Jeremy Bates was not ranked high enough to have gone straight into the main singles draw and would have had to take part in the qualifying competition . |
| 26 | He 'll tell me if I am not bowling well enough to make the Test side , or if he thinks Phil Tufnell will be best suited if we need only one spinner . |
| 27 | Voluntary organisations are anxious to ensure the huge prizes do not draw away much needed cash from their work . |
| 28 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 29 | At frequencies above ο max the dipoles can not move fast enough to follow the alternating field so both ε′ and ε′′ are low . |
| 30 | It is surprising that higher education libraries have not become more fully committed to aspects of the teaching of study skills , for various reasons . |