Example sentences of "[not/n't] know enough " in BNC.

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1 In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway .
2 Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass .
3 They argue that we do not know enough to develop meaningful theories of psychological processes and relegate theories to the level of intellectual devices for stimulating experimentation .
4 It is to enable those who do not know and can not know enough for policy-making to make policy , yet it is to have no policies of its own . ’
5 We do not know enough to claim that they as consciously intend the means , the specific actions and speeches they produce to accomplish such a social act .
6 In accounting , we simply do not know enough to be able to measure this .
7 Someone with more experience of the rough and tumble of friendships , jealousies and animosities might have been able to dismiss Deana 's words as the unmotivated expressions of bitterness and jealousy that they were , but Belinda was inexperienced , and although she knew enough about Deana to be wary and distrustful she did not know enough to ignore her as fully as she should .
8 And , as you frequently remind me , I do not know enough of the wicked world in which I live — so one might consider the Clarion Cry a useful means by which to educate me . ’
9 It was exhausting and she did not know enough to analyse each problem properly .
10 The rise of spirit smuggling , gin , rum and brandy , reflects an increase in national consumption , but we do not know enough to suggest that the drinking culture was changing in the countryside and in the small towns .
11 ‘ Well , you 've proved your point about me not knowing enough to be a manager .
12 You stand by the window with a pathetic glass of lemonade while all father 's secretaries drink champagne and try to make conversation with hoards of people who do n't know enough to speak English .
13 ‘ I do n't know enough to be standing on a pedestal pointing a finger . ’
14 you know if the SEL are doing concerts on the basis of six or seven of the same , I 'm , I , I really do n't know enough about it
15 But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly
16 I d I really do n't know I I really do n't know enough about it .
17 And you know did n't know enough about the different areas of work that I was interested in .
18 I do n't know enough of his background , the causal chain . ’
19 Well , even if I were qualified , I would be very , very sceptical , because I think we just do n't know enough about that yet .
20 The bell rang before she could open it and Jenna stood just inside the sitting-room in her long housecoat , wondering who on earth it could be ; the post had arrived over an hour ago and she did n't know enough people to be expecting visitors .
21 They fear endless meetings and worry that they do n't know enough to join in .
22 What 's your interpretation , she would say , oh , we do n't know enough yet .
23 " Man , " Mendez said , like something good was staring at Russell and he did n't know enough to take it .
24 One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set .
25 One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set .
26 Erm , well I I could n't speak for the latter two programmes cos I do n't know enough about the arrangements there but I have got a a fair amount of knowledge on both tornado and Eurofighter .
27 Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product .
28 ‘ No , she does n't know enough medicine .
29 I do n't know enough actuarial work to be able to and what settlements they should receive , but our own experience is that it 's hard enough to round up pensioners to form an association and we embody deferred pensioners and they 're even harder .
30 I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution .
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