Example sentences of "[not/n't] sufficiently [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court decided that the leaflet was not sufficiently misleading to justify finding in the Borough 's favour ; but implicit in the court 's decision is a further decision that the court had jurisdiction to decide the issue of legality — in other words , that the decision to distribute the leaflet was amenable to judicial review . |
| 2 | The decision he reached was that existing computer hardware was not sufficiently powerful to cope with the problem . |
| 3 | It is enough for me to say that , on the basis of those two cases , the arguments of the two councils in the Stoke-on-Trent case struck your Lordships as being very powerful , but not sufficiently powerful to persuade your Lordships ' House that it need not refer the matter to the European Court of Justice under article 177 . |
| 4 | A fountain can sometimes be incorporated with a waterfall by the use of a two-way junction on the pump outlet , but in most instances the pump is not sufficiently powerful to produce the desired effect . |
| 5 | The speaker 's ability to plan utterances is not sufficiently good to allow planning and production to co-occur smoothly and without interference ; and so there are periods when production must suffer if planning is to proceed . |
| 6 | For example , in Britain , West Germany and Australia differences of interest between skilled and unskilled manual workers exist , but are not sufficiently deep to prevent their labour movements and social democratic parties from maintaining a working unity . |
| 7 | There were no fundamental restructuring costs provided for in 1993 or 1992 , and profits and losses on sale of fixed assets ( 1993 £0.2 million profit , 1992 £0.6 million loss ) were not sufficiently material to warrant separate disclosure on the face of the profit and loss account . |
| 8 | The aims of these were to curb indiscriminate outdoor relief ; if the poor were not sufficiently desperate to enter the workhouse they could not be really in need . |
| 9 | There are also beds of limestone close on the line at Snead and Lydham suitable for building stone , although not sufficiently pure to compete with Porthywaen lime for agricultural purposes . |
| 10 | His undiluted radicalism was illustrated by his admission that ‘ my command of the English Language is not sufficiently wide to allow me to put into words the intense hatred and detestation I have for England . ’ |
| 11 | By contrast with the north-east , Dyfed is not sufficiently industrialized to support an institution offering advanced vocational courses . |
| 12 | But they were not sufficiently close to sustain Cockburn 's analysis , particularly in the field of urban policy and the management of local communities . |
| 13 | Some carers feel a relatively able Down 's person is not sufficiently competent to vote . |
| 14 | But I do not put much weight on this second ground , for great as may be the importance of putting out a fire , it is not sufficiently great to justify the driver in leaving a trail of destruction behind him . ’ |
| 15 | It may be that , if the matter went to the Director of Public Prosecutions , he would take the view that the matter was not sufficiently serious to prosecute , but that is not the point . |
| 16 | Quite simply , domestic policy performance was not sufficiently competitive to match a high level of domestic demand . |
| 17 | If this is not appreciated there is a danger of including pavements whose designs are not sufficiently diagnostic to permit specific stylistic comparison ( or mosaics which are stylised and , therefore , stylistically removed from the main members of the group ) . |
| 18 | There was a screen of well-tended trees between tower and road , not sufficiently thick to conceal the building entirely , but enough to render what was already an undistinguished building virtually invisible . |
| 19 | The stickiness in prices assumed in the model is not sufficiently severe to change the key result of chapter 4 : only the random component of aggregate demand can affect real output . |
| 20 | Four other major criticisms of the scheme have been advanced — that the initial limit is too low ; that the financial criteria are too strict ; that the scheme is not sufficiently well-known to attract those who need it ; and that the system is open to abuse by solicitors . |
| 21 | Much of the veneer of sediments resting on the oceanic crust of the downgoing plate will not be subducted since it is not firmly attached to the underlying crust and because it is not sufficiently dense to sink of its own accord into the asthenosphere . |
| 22 | Strict conventionalism claims that judges are liberated from legislation and precedent in hard cases because the explicit extension of these legal conventions is not sufficiently dense to decide those cases . |
| 23 | But chiefly he stresses the danger of salt spray , ‘ Never let the covers be off , except on days when the wind is not sufficiently high to beat the water into what the seamen call white caps . ’ |
| 24 | The statistical data is not sufficiently large to enable satisfactory significance tests to be performed . |
| 25 | The market for British films was not sufficiently large to justify mass production of films at budgets high enough to ensure they reached real quality , and executives at Stoll did n't understand the difference between good stories and good cinema . |
| 26 | It seems that the Government are not prepared to accept that a lot of people are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the system and the bureaucracy that the Government have created . |
| 27 | It would thus seem that something very like the provisions of the Kanunname were in operation by at least the early sixteenth century ; and if the sources are not sufficiently detailed to confirm the operation of the provisions of the Kanunname in every detail , at the same time they do not cast doubt upon any detail . |
| 28 | Investigations in Lewis ( Erdtman , 1924 ) , S.Uist ( Heslop Harrison and Blackburn , 1946 ; Ritchie , 1985 ) , Barra ( Blackburn , 1948 ) , Benbecula ( Ritchie , 1966 ) , Pabbay ( Ritchie , 1985 ) , and St Kilda ( McVean , 1961 ) are unfortunately not sufficiently detailed to permit any useful reconstruction of the post-glacial floristic or vegetational history . |
| 29 | The biographical sources covering the period are , unfortunately , not sufficiently detailed to permit a definite answer . |
| 30 | The predictions of economic theory are not sufficiently clear-cut to permit us to proscribe monopoly outright . |