Example sentences of "[noun] sufficient [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STOCKPILES of bricks sufficient to build a city the size of Norwich are lying idle on the forecourts of Britain 's brick manufacturers . |
| 2 | If a repeat does occur the immediate response should be a brief interview sufficient to make a satisfactory assessment , especially with regard to suicidal intent . |
| 3 | The exposure of immature insects to a dosage of the insecticide sufficient to kill the susceptible females , enabled Seawright to ‘ mass produce ’ more than one million sterile males a day with only two females per thousand . |
| 4 | All of these generalisations depend of course on a constant wind speed sufficient to fly the kite within its designed wind window . |
| 5 | The question had to be asked : could the purchase of new trains produce savings sufficient to cover the cost of servicing their capital costs as well as reducing the burden on the PSO ? |
| 6 | Probably there would n't be words sufficient to express the outrage . |
| 7 | It requires also that there be an armed force sufficient to enforce the law on recalcitrant individuals . |
| 8 | This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) If on an application under this section the applicant lodges with the board , instead of the plan mentioned in paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 1 ) above , a plan sufficient to identify the site of the premises , together with such description of the premises as will give a general indication of their proposed size and character ( with reference in particular to the sale of alcoholic liquor ) , then ( a ) the licensing board shall deal with the application as if made under subsection 1 ) above ; but ( b ) any provisional grant of a licence made on an application under this subsection shall become ineffective unless affirmed by the licensing board on application made to the board to that effect within 12 months of the provisional grant of the licence , any such application being accompanied by a plan of the premises . |
| 10 | The discount houses agreed to abandon their collectively agreed price for the weekly Treasury bill issue , but they would continue to apply for a quantity of bills sufficient to cover the tender . |
| 11 | Withdrawal would not undermine the military position of the Far Eastern Command unless the Soviet Union built up military strength in south Korea sufficient to implement an attack on Japan . |
| 12 | The differential amplifiers used in EEG machines use the difference between the voltages offered by the two inputs , which is normally less than 200 microvolts ( millionths of a volt ) , and amplify this difference up to a voltage sufficient to drive the galvanometer pens — perhaps 0–5 volts . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) An institution shall not be regarded as conducting its business in a prudent manner unless it maintains or , as the case may be , will maintain net assets which , together with other financial resources available to the institution of such nature and amount as are considered appropriate by the Bank , are — ( a ) of an amount which is commensurate with the nature and scale of the institution 's operations ; and ( b ) of an amount and nature sufficient to safeguard the interests of its depositors and potential depositors , having regard to the particular factors mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 3 ) below and any other factors appearing to the Bank to be relevant . |
| 14 | In many Latin American countries , governments have realised that the cheapest way of attempting to solve the housing problem is to upgrade existing housing settlements and ease the development of new sites and services , rather than attempt the seemingly impossible task of constructing buildings sufficient to house the urban population . |
| 15 | If a group can put together a package of private goods sufficient to offset the costs of joining and supporting its activities , then an organization can form . |
| 16 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 17 | But we also gain insight into when it will work , namely in cases ( unlike Faulhaber 's and Mirman et al. " s ) where cost conditions sufficient to prevent the possibility of competitive entry are imposed . |
| 18 | ‘ Instead it can , for example , be based on the argument that any particular agent 's capacity to absorb information is finite , and that broadly therefore the smaller the unit to be controlled the greater the likelihood of competence sufficient to make the necessary judgement . |
| 19 | On the self-administered General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) at initial interview , about one-third of the supporters reported a number of symptoms of acute stress sufficient to suggest a need for psychiatric attention ’ . |
| 20 | It 's beginning to happen in Frankfurt and Paris , but … ’ he trails off in a manner sufficient to make the Continentals want to cut the United Kingdom adrift . |
| 21 | Although this knowledge was by no means sufficient to put an end to the stammer , it did help to convince him that the problem was capable of being solved . |
| 22 | During the 1980s , inflation in Britain measured by the retail price index averaged around 6 per cent per annum ; a rate sufficient to halve the real value of a fixed sum of money in twelve years . |
| 23 | He made his eighteenth-century reader aware of the travel difficulties , and how they were surmounted — on steep hills by precipices the Highlander and his horse go carefully , the rider sometimes walking , always with a guide : ‘ The horseman has always at his side a native of the place , who , by pursuing game , or tending cattle , or often being employed in messages or conduct , has learned where the ridge of the hill has breadth sufficient to allow a horse and his rider a passage , and where the moss or bog is hard enough to bear them . ’ |
| 24 | The latest CBI surveys suggest that more stockbuilding has indeed occurred , although not on a scale sufficient to explain the trade figures . |
| 25 | This was held to be a mistake sufficient to overturn the decision . |
| 26 | Each has proven ideal as a starter design , capable of all the intricate manoeuvres sufficient to satisfy the novice but obviously not the demanding competition flyer . |
| 27 | Any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract ; |
| 28 | Produced for 20th Century Fox by Elmo Williams , the film crews had the daunting job of recreating two air forces and two navies in numbers sufficient to depict the massed Japanese attackers and , for lack of a better phrase , the massed American targets . |
| 29 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |
| 30 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |