Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 2 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 3 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 4 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 5 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 6 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 7 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 8 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 9 | On the verandah of the plantation house Auguste Lepine heard the commotion in the compound but in the half-light could not see clearly enough to identify its cause . |
| 10 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 11 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 12 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 13 | At frequencies above ο max the dipoles can not move fast enough to follow the alternating field so both ε′ and ε′′ are low . |
| 14 | Any attempt to frame a definition along these lines , however , would run aground because , although such a definition could be made fairly general , it would not discriminate sharply enough to provide a guarantee of hyponymy : |
| 15 | I also thought that our style did not try hard enough to persuade or unite . |
| 16 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 17 | Although para 8(a) of FRS1 refers to ss 248 and 249 CA 1985 , it does not go far enough to state properly whether the exemption does in effect apply to a small group . |
| 18 | While his conclusions may be correct — and we discuss this at greater length in the next chapter — his evidence , unfortunately , does not go far enough to give weight to them . |
| 19 | In these circumstances our concerns are not that community care changes are a step too far , but that they will not go far enough to produce radical change . |
| 20 | It believes that audit committees and the obligatory rotation of audit partners may not go far enough to convince the public of their independence , and suggests that shareholders should be more involved in appointing auditors , determining the scope of the audit , and in the decision to obtain other services from the auditing firm . |
| 21 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 22 | The optical fibre cable recently laid to Number 10 Downing Street joined a network which the group can not spread fast enough to meet demand . |
| 23 | The long residence time generally means that any harmful bacteria that enter an aquifer do not live long enough to pose a threat to anyone using groundwater . |
| 24 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 25 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 26 | The bureau can not operate quickly enough to give us anything approaching a real-time set of accounts . |
| 27 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 28 | Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below . |
| 29 | The baby saw it happening but could do nothing to stop it , its pudgy fingers would not close tightly enough to grasp the string … . |