Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] enough [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union . |
| 2 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 3 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 4 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces . |
| 5 | Some activists were disappointed at the emphasis on legal measures and discouragement of ‘ direct action ’ and felt that legislation did not go far enough in tackling the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 6 | 15 of them , together with Austria , issued a formal objection to the conference 's final statement , claiming that it did not go far enough in setting goals for limiting global warming , or in guaranteeing aid to developing countries . |
| 7 | It is the optimists who did not react quickly enough to the downturn who have been caught out . |
| 8 | Cheshire notes that even so a number of alternating items and structures did not occur frequently enough for a quantitative analysis , and some of the frequencies for the variables which were analysed are very low . |
| 9 | First , a number of historical studies have shown that the nuclear family was common before the industrial revolution , if only because people did not live long enough for older relatives to live near or with their younger kin . |
| 10 | ‘ I think perhaps I did not work hard enough at my marriage , ’ she admits now . |
| 11 | He said they did not get near enough to the 92-year-old Queen Mother 's third-floor room to pose a security risk . |
| 12 | It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word . |
| 13 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 14 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 15 | ‘ It did n't last long enough for that . |
| 16 | ‘ She played good tennis and I did n't play well enough in either set when it was important . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't work hard enough at marriage — it 's remained a huge sadness to me ’ |
| 18 | Labour did n't work hard enough at prising off that glove ; at challenging Thatcher 's theology of individual self-sufficiency ; instead it rejected the radical compassion of international socialism for the gloss and shine of Thatcher-style politics . |
| 19 | An officer said : ‘ It may be that they just did n't act quickly enough for him . ’ |
| 20 | And the other stylists occasionally have to interpret if clients do n't speak clearly enough for her . ’ |
| 21 | individually , but we do n't get together enough as a team . |
| 22 | Er , I think that actually , the the parents , the mother and father they just do n't work hard enough at making a marriage work ! |
| 23 | But this does not go far enough for us and er shortly we will be moving another amendment which will take the council 's budget down to the standard spending assessment and I will speak to that er when I come to move that amendment . |
| 24 | A candidate who does not do well enough in the written examination for the Master 's degree , but who otherwise attains a satisfactory standard , may be awarded the Diploma . |
| 25 | My son , aged five , has a very tight foreskin which does n't pull back enough for me to clean underneath it . |
| 26 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |