Example sentences of "[adv] have sufficient [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No matter how interesting the music and the dance movements , if the passages are too long the dancer rarely has sufficient stamina to sustain the dance to its proper climax .
2 Re-definition on such lines could without a statute be effected by the House of Lords , which alone has sufficient authority to attempt the task , and would not involve much disturbance of decided cases ; there are certainly many obiter dicta at all levels to be sacrificed , but that would be a most desirable result .
3 The Germans and Croats only had sufficient rations for 48 hours .
4 The argument from analogy with which we shall be concerned here admits that it is possible that the objects we call persons are , other than ourselves , mindless automata , but claims that we none the less have sufficient reason for supposing this not to be the case .
5 Real time pressures arise when you are faced with complex tasks and do not have sufficient leeway to consider the best form of action .
6 But Hilary Murphy , of the Chester Green Forum , believes the rivers watchdog does not have sufficient powers to deal with incidents such as the diesel fuel spill .
7 All these mean that even large multi-nationals may not have sufficient resources to succeed on their own .
8 We were , however , unable to provide this important service — either because we did not hold appropriate information in an accessible form or , if it was accessible , we did not have sufficient resources to extract it as required .
9 Many others , however , will have retired some time ago , and will not have sufficient resources .
10 If the girl is under 13 , the maximum penalty is life imprisonment , since a girl of 12 or under can not have sufficient knowledge of the consequences of sex , or sufficient maturity of judgment to take decisions on those consequences .
11 The company had admitted in June that initial results from boreholes drilled in the area showed that it did not have sufficient knowledge of conditions to guarantee safety of the repository .
12 However , where a single battery is used to power both the radio equipment and the gyro motor , the battery pack normally supplied with the radio equipment will not have sufficient capacity to give a reasonable safety margin .
13 Often customs do not have sufficient manpower to carry out a proper inspection .
14 The LIFESPAN username supplied to PI does not have sufficient privilege to modify some or all of the modules .
15 The Social Fund , which is a new part of social security , can give grants for those arranging a funeral who do not have sufficient money to cover the cost .
16 One angry worker explained : ‘ They said they did not have sufficient money to sustain capital investment and pay shareholders , so somebody had to draw the short straw and it was us . ’
17 Meadows and woodlands are better looked after , but that still leaves many different habitats that do not have sufficient protection .
18 The Government 's response in the White Paper on Reform of the Law on Consumer Credit ( 1972 ) Cmnd 5427 , para 14 stated : The Government accept that there are aspects of the existing law in this field which cause difficulty , but they do not have sufficient evidence either of a need for such major recasting of existing law on new principles or of general support for the particular solution proposed by the Committee .
19 Anti-whaling forces at the annual meeting in Kyoto do not have sufficient support for a French proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the southern ocean which would prevent the Japanese from resuming commercial whaling .
20 He decided to resign , not as a tactical manoeuvre , but because he did not have sufficient support to carry on .
21 Originally it was planned to give crossing traffic priority here , but at present drivers do not have sufficient visibility through the greenery to comply .
22 Secondly , Panzer has noticed solution forms at the base of several small isolated rocks , which would not have sufficient surface area to allow a large amount of surface water to collect .
23 One may be that children do not have sufficient command of the skills of extracting information from a text .
24 The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’
25 On a practical level , however , this may prove difficult as France does not have sufficient numbers of teachers qualified to teach this subject .
26 In periods of great shortage of liquidity , the needs of banks which do not have sufficient funds with the traditional market have driven overnight rates to more than 100 per cent .
27 They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds .
28 A banking scandal developed during March when it was revealed that more than 300 current members of the House of Representatives had abused the House bank by writing cheques which their accounts did not have sufficient funds to honour .
29 If the timing is right this will mean that any coordination through ‘ background effects ’ will not have sufficient time to become established even by signals travelling at the speed of light .
30 It is envisaged that , if the Friends are willing to help in this way , properly trained volunteers , who would have to be members of the Friends organisation and who would have their approval , could help with special events and special projects , where existing staff do not have sufficient time to carry out the work .
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