Example sentences of "[verb] sufficient [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes an oil exploration company is unable to provide sufficient collateral to support the necessary borrowing of funds to develop a new oil discovery , in which case a separate company is established to obtain the necessary finance .
2 The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too !
3 It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire .
4 The Soviet Union , these critics argue , was uninterested in Republican victory and unwilling to provide sufficient resources to make it possible ; to make matters worse , the anti-revolutionary policies and generally repressive conduct of the Communists , by robbing much of the population within Republican Spain of anything for which to fight , brought about massive demoralization and weakened rather than strengthened the bases of the anti-fascist struggle .
5 This system made it difficult to provide sufficient cover to care for patients above safety or custodial observation levels .
6 In the former case the plan is unlikely to provide sufficient information to enable the boundaries to be accurately ascertained , while in the latter case the plan will reflect features on the ground rather than boundaries between different owners .
7 The latter was never able to attract sufficient business to create a liquid market , and the contract in effect became moribund and had to be relaunched in April 1991 with different contract specifications , trading and settlement procedures .
8 The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation .
9 However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness .
10 These arguments , it believes , provide sufficient reason to reject the application .
11 However , where there are small numbers of members of a particular Anonymous Fellowships it may be difficult to obtain sufficient numbers to get the maximum benefit from the group process .
12 To make arrangements to obtain sufficient information to confirm its willingness to proceed .
13 to obtain sufficient information to confirm your willingness to proceed with the transaction ; and
14 Once daily use had set in , the user 's principal concern was to obtain sufficient heroin to keep withdrawal symptoms at bay .
15 But even then the surviving directors will need sufficient money to buy the shares — at the market rate .
16 If insurance is to be sought , the vendor should identify and contact the insurers as early as possible in the negotiations as they will need sufficient time to review the draft documentation and consider the vendor 's requirements .
17 There is growing public support for buying and protecting wildlife areas , according to the Paris-based European Fund for the Preservation of Nature , which has amassed sufficient funds to go ahead with its first purchases of land for conservation , in Brittany and Normandy .
18 None of these proposals found sufficient support to press the case forward , and at its conference in York in 1991 the Mental Health Act Commission voted against any specific recommendation .
19 The Bank of England stepped in , took over the running of it and provided sufficient loans to cover the demands of its creditors .
20 Whatever ensued , the United Company of Undertakers did not receive livery status , though they did excite sufficient interest to merit a sarcastic caricature from William Hogarth entitled ‘ The Company of Undertakers ’ , and with the motto ‘ Et Plurima Mortis Imago ’ — ‘ The Very Picture of Death ’ .
21 The lower pool must , of course , be large enough to contain sufficient water to maintain a good depth when the pump is operating .
22 However , it is only open to those who already hold the overpriced asset and so relies on this group of investors trading sufficient assets to move the relative prices of the shares in the index and index futures back into line .
23 It is hoped to find sufficient evidence to reconstruct the life-style of the early modern child .
24 It is increasingly difficult to find sufficient land to bury them .
25 Held , ( 1 ) granting the application , that ( per Taylor and Farquharson L.JJ. ) , since the defendants stood to lose their liberty if the judge 's order were upheld , the court should act by analogy with the practice of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) which , by section 23(1) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , permitted the adduction of fresh evidence where justice required it ; that ( per Sir Donald Nicholls V.-C. ) under R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(2) the court retained sufficient flexibility to enable it to admit fresh evidence where justice so required ; and that , accordingly , the evidence would be admitted notwithstanding that the usual conditions for admissibility admitted might not have been satisfied ( post , pp. 223C–E , 226F–G , 227C–D ) .
26 It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel .
27 On the eve of the ballot both camps expressed confidence about the outcome : Mrs Thatcher 's team anticipated gaining sufficient votes to win outright : Heseltine 's followers asserted that he had enough support to force a second ballot .
28 If further restrictions on displaying advertisements are to be imposed , the tenant 's adviser should ensure that the tenant still has sufficient ability to carry on his business efficiently ( eg by exhibiting advertisements as part of a window display ) .
29 Where the offer is for cash or includes an element of cash , the offer document must include confirmation by an appropriate third party ( eg the offeror 's bank or financial adviser ) that the offeror has sufficient resources to satisfy acceptances of the offer in full ( although , in exceptional circumstances , with the consent of the Panel , a conditional form of confirmation may be allowed if the provision of cash is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions ) ( Rule 24.7 ) .
30 Of the dozen or so choirs in the Navy , including two in Gibraltar and Hong Kong , the one in Greenwich has sufficient expertise to record hymns for use in ships at sea .
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