Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goal was not necessarily to keep the resulting ORS hypotonic . |
| 2 | But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained . |
| 3 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 4 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 5 | And Mary 's condemnation was not enough to keep him from succumbing . |
| 6 | If that 's not enough to keep you occupied , you 'll each be treated to one Body Salt Scrub , one Thalassotherapy Massage Bath and a choice of either G5 Massage or Back Massage with Infra Red . |
| 7 | But even here , there is not enough to keep the swans in food all winter . |
| 8 | These few , SAG claims , are not enough to keep it running . |
| 9 | But this was not enough to keep away mosquitoes , which started to arrive and drift towards the flames . |
| 10 | ‘ Not enough to keep every writing hack in town , ’ I said bitterly . |
| 11 | I was seething , yes , but not enough to keep me away from you . |
| 12 | Johnson , who should have known better , believed Boswell right in assuming such folk unhappy , ‘ for that they had not enough to keep their minds in motion ’ . |
| 13 | Encouragement of this kind alone , however , was not enough to keep the ambitious project afloat . |
| 14 | But a jackpot of £2,350,000 was not enough to keep Kirkley in a job . |
| 15 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 16 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
| 17 | However , he records with thankfulness that it ‘ pleased God not only to keep me from them ’ , but also to give him a friend whose example of zeal and practical godliness was of great spiritual help to him . |
| 18 | Avoiding artificial lighting and air conditioning was seen to be important in reducing the use of electricity , not only to keep down running costs but also for wider , environmental reasons . |
| 19 | Many such ‘ finds ’ have to remain very ‘ quiet ’ until salvage is undertaken , not only to keep other collectors off the scent , but to safeguard sensitive negotiations with governments and their agents . |
| 20 | Modern exponents of this ideal include Anne Faraday and Paul Garfield , whose books encourage the reader not only to keep dream diaries but to attempt to alter their dreams . |
| 21 | Men make use of fire not only to keep themselves warm but to process their food |
| 22 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Enabling people not just to keep alert but to feel they are still learning and growing makes economic as well as moral sense . |
| 24 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 25 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 26 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 27 | But there comes a point when even a hat is n't enough to keep your hands warm , so do n't forget a pair of gloves . |