Example sentences of "not enough " in BNC.

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1 Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help — when it was finally arranged — was not enough .
2 Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help when it was finally arranged was not enough .
3 Videos and literature are not enough .
4 The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it .
5 The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean .
6 It is not enough , wrote Harsnet , to deny that one conceives a work of art and brings it forth as a child is conceived and brought forth into the world .
7 Merely to deny it , even to prove its falsity , is not enough .
8 The organic metaphor is so deeply rooted , he wrote , that ordinary refutation is not enough .
9 Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death .
10 Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death .
11 For the body by itself is not enough , he wrote .
12 The will by itself is not enough .
13 The council spokesman also said there were not enough professional caterers in the area to meet demand .
14 But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained .
15 Mere tolerance of shade is not enough .
16 Merely pushing the lever forwards as far as it will go is not enough because the lock may be very stiff .
17 Time with Lucy was simply not enough .
18 Giving it time , Jay thought , is not enough .
19 As we saw in the chapter dealing with rules , it is not enough for your punch to be an effective scoring technique ; it must be seen to be so , and this entails making its success obvious .
20 A simple movement of the striking limb is not enough to ensure a score .
21 The one-off grant was not enough to retain our researchers .
22 Using the arms alone is simply not enough as the swing is now restricted by the additional hand .
23 It is not enough merely to consider how to perform the five jumps as a technical exercise .
24 on authenticity and not enough on the sheer fantasy of the story .
25 It is not enough to give folk dances theatrical form by opening out their patterns , paying increased attention to the relationship of step to music and developing any unique style of movement .
26 However high you choose this super resolution , the day will come when it 's not enough .
27 He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election .
28 From a commercial point of view , there are not enough to go round .
29 In these regions , the Conservative vote is down respectively by only 5 and 3 per cent on 1987 , not enough to suggest widespread Labour gains come 1992 .
30 The symbolism of Ron Todd succumbing to superior card power , and pointedly declining to fight , fight and fight again , is electorally helpful but not enough to dispel the persisting impression that Labour is not quite serious about defence .
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