Example sentences of "could not [verb] enough [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not secure enough cash quickly and despite several last ditch attempts , went into receivership . |
| 2 | James Watt realised that steam engines as they then existed could not create enough power to be truly economical . |
| 3 | The tenor of his argument was that the Parliament due to meet in February 1545 could not provide enough money in time . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu agreed to reverse the pay cuts that the men in effect faced because they could not cut enough coal to meet the Five Year Plan 's targets . |
| 5 | Bridgend4 BRIDGEND simply could not win enough quality possession in their Schweppes Welsh Cup quarter-final at Rodney Parade on Saturday , and though Newport did not make the most of their chances they still won fairly comfortably . |
| 6 | The peasants could not muster enough cash , on account of galloping inflation , to pay the excise duties . |
| 7 | The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well . |
| 8 | The industry simply could not produce enough coal to meet the economy 's needs [ Ashworth , 1986 ] . |
| 9 | Despite Gurney 's effort in Norfolk , in a number of other localities local abolitionists could not find enough support for two organisations and BFASS supporters argued against auxiliaries for Buxton 's society . |
| 10 | There may be cases where all the fault lies on the side of the head , and indeed in the earliest days of financial delegation many governors were said to have resigned because they could not find enough time to master the intricate responsibilities of new government and because a path through those intricacies had not been mapped by the head . |
| 11 | The brokers thus started again yesterday , but while they apparently conditionally placed more than half this time , they still could not find enough buyers . |
| 12 | He would be wasted because we could not get enough ball to him . |
| 13 | The " labouring poor " covers the majority who did work and who were less than comfortably off , but the truly poor were usually so because they could not work or could not get enough work , while many skilled journeymen earned more than small-holding freeholders . |
| 14 | And at that time he wrote in a letter , ‘ In these concerts I could n't make enough slowings and accelerations . ’ |
| 15 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 16 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 17 | You could n't produce enough wool , you could n't produce enough cotton . |
| 18 | You could n't produce enough wool , you could n't produce enough cotton . |
| 19 | They 're dyed also naturally in the medieval way with red for the madder and then welled to give the yellow as the basis of digris and then a woad an indigo from woad erm slightly cheating there because we could n't have enough woad , we have to use import the actual substance . |
| 20 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 21 | My heart was beating in my throat making it hard to swallow , my nose was running , my hands were cold and I could n't get enough oxygen , which made me yawn every few seconds . |
| 22 | ‘ Anne , ’ Christine said eagerly to the surprised Anne , ‘ did n't you say that your daddy could n't get enough mistletoe to sell this Christmas ? ’ |
| 23 | If all the matter in the universe were turned into monkey flesh , we still could n't get enough monkeys . |
| 24 | We had all these er and Austin of course and Morris , we had all these agencies at the end of the war , and yet we could n't get enough cars . |
| 25 | He could n't instil enough confidence into her , that was the trouble . |