Example sentences of "not yet [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 2 | Next to them stood the second rank of drinkers , ‘ troops ’ of the gangs , not yet vicious enough to challenge the leaders or even each other , unless they were mob-handed . |
| 3 | The mind of a young child is not yet strong enough to hold the two conflicting emotions . |
| 4 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 5 | The support he found amongst gentry and townsmen in eastern Sussex was not yet strong enough to guarantee victory . |
| 6 | He drew his sword and held it in front of him , the pulse pounding in his temples , but he was not yet afraid enough to wake the others . |
| 7 | Although I 'm approaching 50 , I 'm not yet old enough to renounce the idea of love . |
| 8 | It was Diana , aged six — old enough to understand she had been left , but not yet old enough to understand why — who felt so bereft . |
| 9 | It 's not yet old enough to have become corrupted in the same way as the nuclear industry , that Fifties wunderkind gone bad . |
| 10 | The dating of Romano-British mosaics is not yet sensitive enough to exclude the possibility that the regular grid arrangements ( already discussed ) , the simple " or quincunx-panel lozenge formats , and these centralised designs were not broadly contemporary ( that each was possible at the same time , depending on the taste or knowledge of the client or mosaicist ) . |