Example sentences of "not [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of measures to encourage office relocation in order to provide alternative employment opportunities and economic stimulus did something to modify the pattern though not fundamentally to change it . |
| 2 | However , as we shall see , it is necessary to recognise several ‘ lesser ’ semantic roles besides the central one of being a semantic constituent , so that to deny semantic constituency to an element is not necessarily to deny it any semantic role whatsoever : the ‘ negative emotive force ’ can , in fact , be accommodated . |
| 3 | The effect of peer-group pressure and of change in moral fashion is not necessarily to leave us devoid of values . |
| 4 | To explain the intellectual polarities by reference to historical contingencies is not necessarily to explain them away . |
| 5 | Even if men and women were removed from the center of the cosmos , this was not necessarily to diminish their status . |
| 6 | Not enough to stop them . " |
| 7 | The thought sobered Rory slightly , but not enough to stop him going for the gun . |
| 8 | The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it . |
| 9 | It is not enough to give him the facts . |
| 10 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 11 | Unfortunately this was still not enough to give them a parliamentary majority as the Legislative Council contained four members who would be nominated by the Governor . |
| 12 | ‘ The drop 's not enough to kill you and the water 's pig-filthy . ’ |
| 13 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |
| 14 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 15 | What small recovery there is takes the form of a few white straggly spines … not enough to serve their purpose . |
| 16 | The worst Jerome could do , perhaps , but not enough to do his quarry much harm . ’ |
| 17 | Usually panel members of this sort are paid a certain sum of money for their trouble , but not enough to affect their standard of living and relevant purchases . |
| 18 | Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods . |
| 19 | It 's not enough to enjoy yourself , you must make hay while the sun shines . |
| 20 | Not enough to murder him , mind . |
| 21 | The one-off grant was not enough to retain our researchers . |
| 22 | She worried a bit if he had got back safely , but not enough to ask anyone if he had . |
| 23 | The fact that manufacturer B produced a safer razor after the razor in question had been supplied by manufacturer A is not enough to enable us to say that manufacturer A's razor was defective . |
| 24 | Cnut may well have profited from this sort of process , for the sources are scanty and their silence on the matter of simony is not enough to rule it out . |
| 25 | There are times , however , when even that motivation is not enough to push him on to success and the Spartathlon is the perfect example . |
| 26 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 27 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 28 | Our appeal to our traditional supporters was not enough to outweigh our lack of success with those growing numbers who no longer count themselves as working class . |
| 29 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 30 | This can be a bit annoying , because the small area of the current box with the number 2 displayed is often not enough to allow you to see enough of this shade to make a really good colour match with a yarn held next to the screen . |