Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adj] enough [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down .
2 But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can .
3 Anyway I 'm not naïve enough to forget that if we go dancing you 'll immediately be surrounded by hundreds of your female fans ! ’
4 Those two are n't high enough see that really need to be up there does n't it .
5 You were n't mature enough to realise that running a large and expanding business concern requires a huge amount of concentrated hard work . ’
6 It is not good enough to say that badgers are lovely creatures ; so are foxes and salmon .
7 It is not good enough to say that an authoritative measure is justified because it serves the public interest .
8 To them it is not good enough to say that the idea of a god has ‘ great psychological appeal ’ .
9 So please take on board that it is not good enough to answer that a notice was put up to tell people that they could claim , when many people are blind or disabled or do not have the wherewithal to understand .
10 However , it is not good enough to assume that physical restrictions to access to college buildings can be removed , in one fell swoop , by the construction of a ramp or the fitting of a handrail .
11 Although all of this adds up to a fairly persuasive case in favour of certain types of co-operative R&D in certain circumstances , the case is not strong enough to suggest that all types of ventures will have positive ( or even benign ) effects on social welfare .
12 It 's not good enough to say that by becoming international stars they are compensated by the kudos this brings with it and that their personal fame enables them to cash in .
13 It 's not good enough to say that union members can only participate if they become full members of the Party .
14 I was not sensitive enough to realize that it was all my fault , and that if I had n't considered him common , he would n't have been so clumsy .
15 And although she was n't stupid enough to know that he would n't catch up with her eventually , when his role as host was over , if not before , she had high hopes that she could escape before that eventuality .
16 I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms .
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