Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 2 | If it were more forcefully to challenge the ageism that underlies the social structure , would it be in danger of provoking a backlash from those of its supporters who do not wish to be reminded that all is not well , despite their charity ? |
| 3 | It may be human nature to dread each turn of the decade , but it 's equally so to grin and celebrate the Big Birthday when it comes . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not just to do with surface . |
| 5 | Honours are one thing , and it 's not necessarily to do with class , because any one of any class can get on |
| 6 | Well I mean , it 's not necessarily to say that you know , that they |
| 7 | Which is recognizing that it 's not there to start with . |
| 8 | It 's not enough to feed the family . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the lessons we learned early on from QES was that it 's not enough to appoint a number of specialist trainers , brilliant though they may be , and expect them to lead change . |
| 11 | It 's not enough to enjoy yourself , you must make hay while the sun shines . |
| 12 | It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not enough to say ‘ I 'm sorry ’ . ’ |
| 14 | It 's not enough to say do n't have sex . |
| 15 | ‘ But it 's not enough to memorise the Green Cross Code — that 's like learning to drive without getting inside a car , ’ warns Professor Robert Grieve . |
| 16 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
| 17 | ‘ I have to use my pension just to pay for food but it 's not enough to cover the bills or if you need a new coat or linen . |
| 18 | These days it 's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply . |
| 19 | That is essential , it 's not enough to write the monthly to do list . |
| 20 | If the performance of the 80586 and the MIPS R4000 is only off plus or minus 20% , it 's not enough to make the hassle worth it . |
| 21 | It 's not enough to imply , as Jack Hibbert did , that protests are being made to ministers behind the scenes . |
| 22 | It 's not enough to know how to speak the lines . |
| 23 | It 's not enough to feel the ripple |
| 24 | I mean , it 's not enough to fight back really , twelve . ’ |
| 25 | But it 's not enough to play like that once every ten weeks . ’ |
| 26 | But it has long been a mystery to me why students find proofs to be a mystery , and Solow has the answer : it 's not enough to tell them ‘ a proof is a sequence of logical steps ’ . |
| 27 | All that was fine and good , but in the end it 's not enough to have someone who makes the trains run on time . |
| 28 | Um somehow it 's not really to do with whether they were abused or not as children , somehow it 's the it 's the therapist . |
| 29 | Now do n't blame the machine , poor thing , it 's not really to blame , its everything else in the home , the carpets , furniture cloths and so many more things these days that have man-made materials in them . |
| 30 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |