Example sentences of "[prep] sufficient [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some hesitation and comforted by the passage from the speech of Lord Hailsham L.C. [ in [ 1972 ] A.C. 741 at 757–758 ] , to which I have referred , I consider that the modern approach to the question of consideration would be that where there were benefits derived by each party to a contract of variation even though one party did not suffer a detriment this would not be fatal to the establishing of sufficient consideration to support the agreement . |
| 2 | One of the major weaknesses is , perhaps , a lack of sufficient follow-up on the recommendations . |
| 3 | Very little additional colour can have a dramatically brightening effect : the trick seems to be to reduce the black element to a design of sufficient simplicity to integrate small dabs of colour . |
| 4 | Students who show evidence of sufficient merit may on completion of the course and at the discretion of the Course Committee be given the opportunity of transferring to the second year of an appropriate degree programme within the Faculty . |
| 5 | Although the V&A 's sculpture department tried to keep the sixteenth-century bronze statue in the country , it seems that it was not felt to be of sufficient merit to meet any of the Waverley criteria governing rules on the export of works of art from Britain . |
| 6 | The Book of Cupid , his one surviving work , is a piece of sufficient merit to have been thought until the nineteenth century to have been written by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | That is why I willingly sent him anything I thought might be of sufficient merit to justify him , as a publisher , pronouncing upon it . |
| 8 | To lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators . |
| 9 | Anglo-Welsh have stated that one of their principal objectives is ‘ to lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators ’ . |
| 10 | By his own account , after much expenditure of charcoal and years of failure , he discovered a powder through which he made a successful projection of sufficient gold to pay off his creditors . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) payment of the fee for issue and service by the bailiff ( see Table of Fees ) ; ( 4 ) self-addressed envelope if issued by post ; and ( 5 ) where the applicant considers that service in accordance with Ord 24 , r 3(2) ( b ) may be necessary , provision of sufficient stakes and transparent envelopes for such service . |
| 12 | A square voltage waveform is applied to the excitation coil , of sufficient magnitude to saturate the core . |
| 13 | Hamilton also points out that the replacement of forest by well-maintained agricultural terraces may actually reduce the amount of soil erosion , and Ives ( 1987 ) provides a timely reminder that the Himalaya are undergoing tectonic uplift which itself may be of sufficient magnitude a account for much of the increased sediment load of the major drainage systems . |
| 14 | In some areas of the Southern North Sea Basin it is evident that post-inversion subsidence ( essentially Tertiary to Recent ) has been of sufficient magnitude to subject previously matured Carboniferous sediments to the depth/temperature regime to which they were originally exposed . |
| 15 | It is certainly possible that the confluence of various tides of change in assessment policy will prove instrumental in creating a wave of sufficient magnitude to bring about a revolution in attitudes to 16+ certification : of generating a degree of momentum that no single initiative could achieve by itself . |
| 16 | Contrasts in the attitudes of the following subgroups are then presented in cases where the differences are of sufficient magnitude to be statistically significant : |
| 17 | Divergent oblique-slip motion leads to extensional ( normal ) faulting and subsidence and if this is of sufficient magnitude a pull-apart basin may be formed . |
| 18 | A fall in price of sufficient magnitude would ultimately ensure that the initial excess supply would be eliminated . |
| 19 | In the south-east corner of the massif , however , this fall is interrupted by other heights of sufficient stature and character to be classed not merely as foothills but as separate entities deserving individual attention : of these , Norber and Moughton , enclosing between them the lonely valley of Crummackdale , display features of unusual interest . |
| 20 | Everyone here accepts we need a bowler , the problem is there is no-one of sufficient stature . |
| 21 | All three are [ in different degrees ] illusions , which make the weight of life bearable — to those of sufficient stature to feel its weight in the first place . |
| 22 | His reasoning was that none of the men who were conceivable successors were of sufficient stature to reign — he talked privately about his " monarchy " — without the legitimation of popular election . |
| 23 | That is a principle of sufficient generality to be invoked without disquiet . |
| 24 | Under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , judges must be satisfied that the child is of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the duty of telling the truth . |
| 25 | Jurors had only to be ‘ of sufficient intelligence and respectability ’ , but in 1 868 a financial test was instituted in order to exclude low-status white-collar workers . |
| 26 | The area health authority and Department of Health and Social Security on the other hand contended that under the common law a minor of sufficient intelligence and understanding could always consent to treatment and that the effect of section 8 was to produce an irrebuttable presumption that a child of 16 or 17 had such intelligence and understanding . |
| 27 | The House of Lords decisively rejected Mrs. Gillick 's contentions and held that at common law a child of sufficient intelligence and understanding ( the ‘ Gillick competent ’ child ) could consent to treatment , notwithstanding the absence of the parents ' consent and even an express prohibition by the parents . |
| 28 | The timbers are of sufficient size to make both a positive statement and to last indefinitely . |
| 29 | In order for induction to occur the cells need to be in a community of sufficient size , a phenomenon termed ‘ community effect ’ ; the cells ' development being dependent on the presence of other similar cells . |
| 30 | ‘ His [ Coleman 's ] House , doubtless was the one originally occupied by Vial , there being no other in the immediate neighbourhood of sufficient size for his family and resident Students . |