Example sentences of "be not [adj] [adv] [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 | It is not good enough to say that badgers are lovely creatures ; so are foxes and salmon . |
| 5 | It is not good enough to say that an authoritative measure is justified because it serves the public interest . |
| 6 | To them it is not good enough to say that the idea of a god has ‘ great psychological appeal ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If one affirms that there is and can be only one ultimate and self-sufficient principle , the transcendent Father , and also that the divine Triad is three distinct realities ( as Origen had taught ) , it is not easy then to affirm that the Son and the Father are in being identical or ‘ of one substance ’ — not at least without fairly complicated explanations . |
| 11 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 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 . |