Example sentences of "not enough [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It dries up too ; it cakes all over me ; sometimes I feel there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did in your name … ’
2 Yes , stool making , you know I 've got a stool here , I made that stool over there ages ago for me daughter-in-law and this one I can not get it right I 've , I 've , it 's , it 's , I 'm trying I 've got to undo it again there , it 's not right , I think it is because the cord 's too thick , it 's a very thick cord and I 've not got enough stitches you know not enough strands on it , but I 'm gon na do it , it 'll be done before Christmas I 've got to do it otherwise
3 The chief reason given for closure ( by 78% ) was that there was not enough competition in the school ; that against closure , that pupils received more individual attention ( 67% ) .
4 Unfortunately there is not enough capacity in MOX factories to turn the weapons surplus from both superpowers into fuel .
5 When I read the headlines of the Hon. Gentleman 's local paper , I found that there is deep concern because there are not enough sites for industrial development .
6 There are not enough teachers in our schools .
7 There are not enough hours in the day to attempt to deal with everything .
8 She writes , ‘ We live very happily here with not enough hours in the day to cope with very full lives ! ’
9 There is not enough air on earth for me to breathe : my love is consuming all the oxygen in heaven .
10 The gubernatorial trial balloon may well fall back in the Speaker 's face because , quite simply , there is not enough air in it .
11 Not enough holes in the lids had made them breathless .
12 If there is not enough space on the form to describe the change , attach a continuation sheet
13 We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements .
14 Beyond the double-doors lay only a compacted cave-in of concrete slabs and twisted metal , with not enough space for even a small dog to squeeze through .
15 Not enough space for them .
16 Unfortunately there is not enough space in this book to go into the diet in any detail .
17 There is not enough space in this chapter to do them justice and standing orders vary from one committee to another .
18 There 's not enough space in there .
19 There is not enough space in this course to deal with simple words of more than three syllables , nor with special cases of loan words ( words brought into the language from other languages comparatively recently ) .
20 There 's not enough emphasis on the History of Art outside Sixth Form Work .
21 ‘ There is simply not enough evidence for a jury to be invited to consider a charge of manslaughter against Smith and Winter , ’ he said .
22 I agree with his decision that there was not enough evidence for all the reasons that the Minister has given .
23 Despite forensic tests linking the vehicle with the fatal crash and an admission by Smyth that he was behind the wheel , the Republic 's Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was not enough evidence for a dangerous driving charge .
24 Not enough change in your rate .
25 Did you ever have not enough work for the number of men you had ?
26 The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower .
27 Yeah , dad would say , not enough garlic in there , that could do with a bit of cauli-head in there and I will you
28 The archive is not open to the public at the moment as there is not enough funding for staff and technical equipment , but it is hoped that this will soon be overcome .
29 ‘ As a result , there is too much short-termism , too much reacting to events , not enough shaping of events .
30 I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) .
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