Example sentences of "can not [verb] enough [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gaskells ca n't grow enough orchids to keep up with demand — they breed half their stock and import the rest from Holland and Germany . |
| 2 | ‘ Dagenham is going flat out , and we ca n't make enough diesel engines , ’ says Lawrence . |
| 3 | IF you ca n't entice enough customers into the showroom , tempt them through the letterbox . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember enough detail to produce a coherent report , but the upshot of it is a win for Leeds would have been a fair result , and a draw less fair . |
| 5 | Actually , Gillian does have a serious Rottweiler problem — she ca n't get enough bed space . |
| 6 | But it 's not , it 's flourishing and there 's plenty demand ca n't get enough slates and er yes they say they 've got er terrific overheads this and that , er well erm they can put them figures there they change the tune changes every day . |
| 7 | John Toole says he ca n't get enough work done because of a lack of resources and no-one disagrees ! |
| 8 | Until the backup generators come on line , I ca n't get enough ergs to run a full check on the main systems . ’ |
| 9 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 10 | If you ca n't get enough news , we have bulletins regularly throughout each day , starting at six fifteen in the morning , with the main programmes at five to one and six thirty . |
| 11 | You were very tightly corseted , which makes any exertion almost impossible because if you ca n't fill your lungs to take enough air then obviously you ca n't take enough exercise , which is why a lot of women would faint with shock or horror because any sort of sharp intake of breath , and they 'd be flat on their backs , unconscious . |
| 12 | When you have books stored in tea chests , and ca n't afford enough bookcases to house them , the answer is to cover an empty alcove wall with shelves . |
| 13 | We ca n't free enough capital to buy new sites and develop the earlier ones as we 'd like . |
| 14 | Well the point is if we ca n't find enough players |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't find enough words to thank you . ’ |
| 16 | The people only have small parcels of land and can not grow enough food . |
| 17 | The problem is that their ‘ product ’ — primarily concerts — can not attract enough box office income to cover their overheads . |
| 18 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 19 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 20 | Booksellers are in the vanguard and many of them simply can not get enough books to meet demand . |
| 21 | In Mandalay Burmans are making bricks because they can not get enough timber to rebuild their houses , tho' Burma is a land of timber . |
| 22 | The disadvantage that besets British firms is that they can not sell enough products in the UK to generate the cash needed to promote their wares overseas and develop new products . |
| 23 | And it is no good buying your plane , if , after all the other costs , you can not afford enough MOGAS or 100LL to actually fly it . |