Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though not piggishly chauvinistic enough to echo the first pronouncement , I heartily endorse the last . |
| 2 | Although Bush won all of the Republican contests , his margins of victory were not sufficiently large either to destroy Buchanan 's candidacy , or to disguise the sizeable portion of Republicans who were dissatisfied with Bush 's record . |
| 3 | However , a sociological explanation needs to be more holistic than this , and it is not normally sufficient merely to regard the events leading up to a strike as its cause . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , they 're not usually powerful enough to change things by themselves , see . |
| 5 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 6 | In prosperous districts too — most strikingly in central Suffolk — the labouring element was minimal , few assessments falling below £2 , and many people had their own smallholdings which , even if not always big enough to afford a really adequate livelihood , at least restricted working for wages to a subsidiary role . |
| 7 | And a morning was not nearly long enough to explore the friendly and fascinating city . |
| 8 | However , the system is by no means universally applied despite the existence of national guidelines and the sanctions against offenders are not nearly tough enough to deter all those whose standards are low or whose intentions in entering a profitable market are dishonourable . |
| 9 | Laura , however , declined on the grounds that she was not nearly important enough to share the limelight with such august people . |
| 10 | She 's not really well enough to do any thing is she ? |
| 11 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 12 | He had kept making remarks like ‘ You 're not really good enough to make the team ’ or ‘ You 're not good enough to beat Mike McFarlane and Cameron . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And not even big enough to have a decent crap on ! ’ he hurled over his shoulder before turning to jab a finger at Zen . |
| 14 | But it is not immediately obvious how to write a similar argument against the notion of justified belief . |
| 15 | Jerking her head up , Polly stared at him , not quite certain how to react , for his tone had n't been one of admiration , but more a reluctant acknowledgement . |
| 16 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 17 | Implicit was the feeling that Saito 's papermaking company was not quite grand enough to own these French status symbols . |
| 18 | " Eheu , fugaces ! " she thought and almost said , but was not quite sure how to pronounce it . |
| 19 | Benedicta paused , not quite sure how to go on , but Topaz smiled . |
| 20 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 21 | The guests would smile politely at the work and the information , often not quite sure how to take either of them . |
| 22 | And , not quite sure how to take that , Ellie hastily looked down at the quilt the woman was folding . |
| 23 | I am not quite sure how to train my dog . |
| 24 | And as we see it , that lower case script is not quite good enough to justify what 's there at the moment . |
| 25 | This probably means that the remedy was close but not quite close enough to give any sustained relief . |
| 26 | At first we could n't see anything on the white backing but then Eadred brought across a candle , held it near the page , not quite close enough to scorch , and sea-green writing began to appear . |
| 27 | There are two slanting zip pockets with weather flaps and an inside pocket which is not quite large enough to take a full size OS map . |
| 28 | Mogg had hailed her victory : ‘ Although Mrs Thatcher 's majority was not quite large enough to avoid a second ballot , the victory was clearly a decisive one . ’ |
| 29 | The younger children , who had completed nine years of school but who were not quite old enough to join the Hechalutz training programme , combined a half-day study syllabus with agricultural work . |
| 30 | Black cotton dresses , ankle-height zippered carpet slippers , stockings like brown bandages , not quite thick enough to conceal the knots of varicose veins . |