Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 2 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 3 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 4 | The train was braking hard now , but Harry could not think fast enough . |
| 5 | The United Nations has been widely criticised for not reacting fast enough to the crisis in Somalia . |
| 6 | The problem was that OpenForum ‘ 92 was originally intended to be an exhibition as well , and the relatively late decision by the organisers to focus more on the conference side was not communicated clearly enough to some of the exhibiting vendors . |
| 7 | Infections can be fatal if not treated early enough . |
| 8 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 9 | Merymose did not answer quickly enough . |
| 10 | Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks . |
| 11 | He did not want to frighten her , and , in my opinion , did not explain clearly enough why she should never communicate with Linton again . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not stress strongly enough the value of this type of project to schools . |
| 13 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 14 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |
| 15 | The company commented that it had benchmarked machines like ICL 's DRS6000 and a Sequent server in December 1990 but they were not considered fast enough . |
| 16 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 17 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 18 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 19 | The United Kingdom expert , very surprisingly , was equally silent on this matter ; he explained the purpose of Article 23 as being to enable Contracting States to refuse to execute Letters of Request which lacked specificity in that they did not describe precisely enough the documents to be obtained or examined . |
| 20 | Many species are having to be brought into captivity merely as an emergency measure because we can not act fast enough , or effectively enough , in the wild and we do not know enough about most plants and animals to conserve them . |
| 21 | ‘ They lost the elections because they did not act quickly enough . |
| 22 | He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed . |
| 23 | If the less successful variants were not multiplying quickly enough an element of competition would also mean that poor replicators will be less efficient at acquiring the means of survival to keep the new species going . |
| 24 | The main point to realise is that if you can not feel a positive lock , you are either not pushing hard enough or the lock is completely out of adjustment and too light to be effective . |
| 25 | But that is precisely the point : the boom would have been pulled up sharply if consumption had not grown fast enough , and rising wages were essential to that growth . |
| 26 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 27 | He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald . |
| 28 | A North-East woman caught up in the blast criticised British Rail for not acting quickly enough . |
| 29 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 30 | In addition , criticism of DCF is often not separated clearly enough from criticism of accounting return on investment ( ROI ) . |