Example sentences of "and not enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rarely meet opposition from the village militia , who have no training and not enough ammunition to put up a fight even if they wanted to . |
| 2 | Bands spend too much time chasing A&R personnel and other industry figures , and not enough time chasing punters , developing a following and creating a ‘ buzz ’ . |
| 3 | David Howell complained that in Cabinet there was ‘ too much argument and not enough discussion ’ and regretted the trend towards ‘ a huge argument where tremendous battle lines will be drawn up and everyone will be hit on the head ’ . |
| 4 | Recent harvests have been short and not enough trees have been planted for the future . |
| 5 | Discussion of the Environmental Protection Bill will be dominated by the breaking-up of the Nature Conservancy Council and not enough attention will be given to pollution and genetically-manipulated organisms . |
| 6 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 7 | The new generation , without exception , all sound second-hand loads of aptitude and not enough attitude . |
| 8 | Certainly , there is very good evidence that we eat too much sugar , too much saturated fat , too much salt , and not enough fibre . |
| 9 | There was no space in here for the literature that had brightened his being and not enough light between these walls for fairytale merchants brought to life in old romances . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Barnes , who had no staff with him and not enough time , demurred . |
| 12 | Our problem is that we tend to eat too much of some nutrients and not enough of others . |
| 13 | Second , it was badly planned and not enough thought was given to how the team would make their escape from a remote island like New Zealand . |
| 14 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 15 | There were too many things to do and not enough time . |
| 16 | I 'm saying that in my experience there is too much argument and not enough discussion in processes of government generally , and I believe we would make more progress by a more discursive approach . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's Runner Rowles , ’ he grinned nodding towards the man , ‘ a living example , if you call it that , of what a lifetime of too much cider and not enough grub can do to a man ! ’ |
| 18 | Our ancestors were apes who left the forests , because there were too many apes and not enough food . ’ |
| 19 | There was a time when we naively believed that it was caused by Immune Overload — too many stimulants and not enough rest and nutrition . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're receiving no fresh meat at all , and not enough water . |
| 21 | Geoff Barnes of Casson Beckman believes that there would be fewer problems about audit fees if the audit was regarded as a more useful exercise both by members of the public and by business : ‘ As a profession we spend far too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward . ’ |
| 22 | With regard to the secondary school curriculum , the Yellow Paper maintained that too much scope had been given to the principle of pupil choice , with the result that many pupils were following unbalanced programmes and not enough pupils were studying science-based and technological subjects . |
| 23 | Too much paperwork and not enough money — that is the grass-roots opinion of community care 's introduction . |
| 24 | Engels attributes this to there being too many chiefs and not enough indians in the European operation . |
| 25 | Millions of pounds and several months later the consultancy company concluded that too many people were steering and not enough were rowing . |
| 26 | As an avid reader of Hot Press and several other music mags , I recently decided that I was spending too much time reading about music and not enough time listening to the stuff . |
| 27 | There were so many evacuees in the town and not enough places to stay , so the teachers said . |
| 28 | In November 1937 he read the script aloud to Martin Browne and his wife , and their reaction was one of " fascination and doubt " : there was too much description and not enough action , they felt , and so he began once again the struggle to elucidate plot and characters . |
| 29 | This case presents a situation in which the commitment for change was high at the top ; but the methods of achieving the change were confused at first , and not enough effort was expended to infuse the total organizational environment with commitment . |
| 30 | Over-extended , that 's what they were , too many orders and not enough money to buy the gear . |