Example sentences of "not [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the range is not broad enough to produce a median ratio . |
| 2 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 3 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 4 | It is not possible here to chronicle the many other points included in the Submissions to the Labour Court on behalf of the Bank Assistants . |
| 5 | I regret that it is not possible separately to identify the money devoted to the range of conditions associated with the menopause from the £225 million spent on medical research last year . |
| 6 | The apparent trend to the Left in the Labour Party was in keeping with the political atmosphere of the times , but it was not strong enough to force the abandoning of official opposition to any form of the Unity Campaign . |
| 7 | The chemical smells of modern tap water may stop a cat drinking from its bowl , but they are not strong enough to drive the animal back physically from the corner of the kitchen floor where the bowl is placed . |
| 8 | Thus a free-running rhythm indicates that the time-cues are not strong enough to entrain the body clock to a 24-hour period . |
| 9 | Bridgend had a strong side out … not strong enough to hold the cherry and whites though … |
| 10 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 11 | the design was not strong enough to resist the forces exerted while Span 5–6 was being cantilevered out from Pier 6 |
| 12 | The boys were not strong enough to handle the heavy boat at flood tides so Mabel had to cope then . |
| 13 | Parts of the M 1 and the M6 are being dug up and rebuilt , because the roads are not strong enough to bear the weight of traffic . |
| 14 | But if it is to serve as the platform for a conclusion that something else and qualitatively different is required , something to place authority , at least in part , for the conduct of a business owned by others in the hands of employees , then by itself the statement is not strong enough to bear the weight of the proposition . |
| 15 | It would have been possible to have considered the Orpheus mosaics and a group of saltire mosaics , at the level of substantial affinity : in both instances there are similarities of content and decoration , where these similarities are not strong enough to suggest the presence of even a single craftsman who worked on more than one of the comparable mosaics . |
| 16 | The young beaks are not strong enough to break the yarn ( have you ever tried breaking acrylic ? ) and of course , they can not unpick the yarn . |
| 17 | In the drowsy state there is very little coming in and yet the cortex is still relatively alert and demanding something to work on , although not alert enough to provide an effective inhibition of nonsense being offered by the senses . |
| 18 | And Cadfael had not missed the heave of the misshapen shoulder , visible now in this rear view as a distinct hump , though not grave enough to disfigure an otherwise finely proportioned body . |
| 19 | It was not clear enough to protect the sellers from the consequences of their own negligence and it did not apply when the sellers had delivered something wholly different in kind from that which had been ordered . |
| 20 | That has led to mountains of surplus ACT in companies where UK earnings are not high enough to absorb the ACT . |
| 21 | You 've practically got to be committed under the mental health act before you 're not sound enough to make a will . |
| 22 | As the new prime minister has said , Italy 's public finances are not sound enough to fulfil the Maastricht criteria for adoption of a common European currency . |
| 23 | At the back of the machine , on our level , an ingenious device separates out most of the stones : a circular rubber pad revolves below brushes , which are stiff enough to sweep the potatoes off into their special channel , but not rigid enough to dislodge the stones until later . |
| 24 | Even so , if the sequence is to come off it will have to be stage-managed to some extent : children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus are not old enough to carry the action on their own without the help of an adult to keep things moving . |
| 25 | Is not it about time that the Government stopped this practice of recruiting and exploiting young people who are deemed not old enough to cast a vote but in some cases are being forced to continue in the Army and can be put into armed combat , as they were during the Gulf war ? |
| 26 | But is it I mean I 'm not old enough to remember the war or |
| 27 | I found him a fascinating , knowledgeable and eclectic artist , someone who thinks deeply about his work and is not content simply to record the bare facts of the world in front of him . |
| 28 | Attlee was not content simply to urge the need for economies . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Freud , however , was not content merely to make the general assertion ; he went further in stipulating the kinds of experience that would produce particular kinds of results if encountered at specified stages of development . |