Example sentences of "simply [not/n't] [adj] enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | It adds a huge oddity to the history of cricket that while President Mugabe ( who once acknowledged that cricket civilises people ) snatches agricultural land from Zimbabwe 's whites for minimal compensation , and with the drought turning much of his land to dust , a former Test cricketer from the region , Jackie du Preez ( South Africa 1966–67 ) , says unequivocally : ‘ We are simply not good enough . |
| 2 | It is simply not good enough to blame MacSharry , because his proposals , bad as they are , have not yet affected British agriculture . |
| 3 | It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright . |
| 4 | The contract should have been drafted to take account of United Kingdom law , it was simply not good enough to make a few modifications to an American form of contract . |
| 5 | It is simply not good enough for people to argue , as I have heard , that viewers will be able to see Current Affairs outside the peak time . |
| 6 | ( Nor , incidentally , are ‘ Fenland Blows ’ caused by the absence of hedgerows — another common belief ; conventional hedges are simply not tall enough to be effective , only shelter belts of poplars or other tall trees . ) |
| 7 | Was Gemma simply not tall enough for it ? |
| 8 | It is simply not extraordinary enough — not a miraculous vibrato instrument like that of Pavlov 's Dog 's David Surkamp . |
| 9 | ‘ That is simply not strong enough to cope with the difficult challenges in front of us . |
| 10 | ‘ He is simply not big enough . ’ |
| 11 | But it might well be that an associatively activated X is simply not salient enough to produce effects of a measurable size . |
| 12 | After a spate of database crashes , and suffering the frustrating and time-consuming business of repeatedly reconstructing files and indexes , I was forced to consider that the mains supply to this particular computer was simply not clean enough for the computer to use . |
| 13 | Well the level of benefit is simply not high enough to cope with the needs of living today . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're simply not important enough for me to want to avoid you . ’ |
| 15 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |