Example sentences of "not [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 3 | These days it 's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply . |
| 4 | It is not enough to bring in an employee assistance programme if the company fails to face up to its own part in stress mismanagement . |
| 5 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
| 6 | They perform the function of a rite of passage whereby the reader is enabled not only to glimpse imaginatively the possibility of a reality which transcends the limitations of sense and intellect but also to validate it . |
| 7 | There should be time not only to carry out the patient care but also to discuss and evaluate it . |
| 8 | ( a ) Unregistered land Recitals to a conveyance can be very useful , not only to describe briefly the reason for the deed but also to recite additional information which , owing to the provisions of s45(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925 ( the section providing that a recital 20 years ' old shall be sufficient evidence of the truth of the fact recited unless proved to the contrary ) , might not be readily available later ( for instance , because a copy marriage certificate is mislaid or was not abstracted ) . |
| 9 | I was able not only to point out the inconsistencies of the so-called ‘ voluntary agreements ’ but also to the confusion in the ranks of the tobacco industry . |
| 10 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 11 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 12 | Their task is not simply to carry out a paperwork exercise . |
| 13 | ‘ We are not here to sort out the world 's problems ! ’ |
| 14 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |