The part of the sentence "was not selective enough" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something was not chosen in a careful or careful manner. For example, "The candidate selection process was not selective enough and we ended up hiring the wrong person."
It was not selective enough.
According to the BBWAA, the Veterans Committee was not selective enough in choosing members.
According to the BBWAA, the Veterans Committee was not selective enough in choosing members, and charges of cronyism were later levied against the committee.
This showed that this protocol was not selective enough, even though its sensitivity was very high.
However, no separation of the rare earths is possible, because the resin is not selective enough.
Laser stimuli present risks of skin damage, whilst electrical stimulation through specially designed electrodes is not selective enough.
Third, some fluorescent probes are not selective enough for one particular ROS.
However, the non-SLI twin typically had evidence of language difficulties: These simply were not selective enough or persistent enough to meet conventional diagnostic criteria for the disorder.
Second, some attributes are not selective enough between the two classes of interest, like the presence of Poly dA-dT) of 10 or more bPoly dA-dTirs).
Unfortunately, the currently available enrichment and plating media for isolation of pathogenic strains of Y. enterocolitica are not selective enough to repress the background flora which increases the risk of false negative results.
Finally, it has also been implied that clinical stroke trials are not selective enough with respect to their enrolment criteria, and thereby might miss potentially useful interventions, whereas experimental trials typically study a specific mechanism or a very specific type of stroke, and therefore yield more selective and more promising results (Gladstone et al., 2002).
