Example sentences of "[be] not enough [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 2 | Christine , there are n't enough biscuits for us to have one each . |
| 3 | Either there were not enough fish for him in the Black Sea , or he could n't catch them . |
| 4 | Whether he come from this or not , but erm we were dredging the West Bank cos er the kind of ship we got there then were the big tankers and there were n't enough room for them to swing round , so we had to dredge part of the bank out to make the swinging berth and erm there we dredged a bone up about that size |
| 5 | An elderly man with camping equipment hurls his rucksack over the crowd into the doorway , for there is not enough room for him and his luggage to get through the stampede . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's not enough money for us all to go , and — the Robinsons are not so very bad . ’ |
| 7 | As UPSs go , the AccuCard is a modest example — there 's not enough battery for you to carry on computing without mains power . |
| 8 | ‘ It was almost like a downhill in places and there was not enough security for us in case of falls . |
| 9 | And last night it emerged that the man was being held in police cells because there was n't enough space for him at Durham prison . |
| 10 | Ruth supposed that there was n't enough coal for her to have a fire in the grate , but this was no way to cure a bad chest . |
| 11 | It was only a four-seater plane , though , and in the end there was n't enough room for me , so I had to take a bus from Birmingham up to Dundee . |
| 12 | We had a house , plenty of room for everything , really , except that there was n't enough room for you and me , was there ? |