adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sufficient quantity (=enough)
▪ How did they obtain sufficient quantities of food to survive?
enough/sufficient courage
▪ Harry plucked up enough courage to ask her out.
enough/sufficient detail
▪ The party was criticized for not giving sufficient detail about their proposed tax changes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
quite
▪ For many purposes this is quite sufficient and the values of Young's modulus obtained compare well with those from other tests.
▪ In adult years, help from the partner never feels quite sufficient and, therefore, can not be appreciated.
▪ He felt that his job was quite sufficient.
▪ The light output is quite sufficient for the speeds the vehicles are capable of.
▪ Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
▪ Eventually it should be quite sufficient to weigh yourself once every week or two.
▪ As for special event photography black and white will be quite sufficient.
▪ It is quite sufficient to do a little exercise, often.
■ NOUN
condition
▪ Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game.
▪ Mental and physical actions in the environment are a necessary but not sufficient condition for cognitive development.
▪ But it is not a sufficient condition.
▪ While effective power may be a necessary condition of political legitimacy it is not a sufficient condition.
▪ The condition looks very similar to the sufficient condition advanced in chapter 3 and may be proved in the same way.
▪ That the moral imperative was not a sufficient condition has already been remarked upon.
▪ We would argue for a mild presumption that this sufficient condition is likely to be met.
detail
▪ The various validation aspects and approaches are covered in sufficient detail and clarity.
▪ This should be in sufficient detail for precise identification. 2.
▪ Burr does not give sufficient detail to enable a reasonable evaluation of its effectiveness.
▪ Each turn is covered in sufficient detail for it to be understandable and achievable by most skiers.
▪ Course content Any briefing given must provide sufficient detail on the new location.
▪ Records: All transactions, transfers and expenditure should be recorded in sufficient detail for the information to be usable.
▪ Methods used, described in sufficient detail to enable the research programme to be repeated, possibly elsewhere.
▪ Both are treated in sufficient detail to be widely useful, with many practical examples from the authors' wide experience.
evidence
▪ There is sufficient evidence to indicate that students may differ markedly in the ways they set about learning.
▪ Grand juries only determine whether sufficient evidence exists to justify an indictment.
▪ This is the only crime for which the judges concede there is sufficient evidence.
▪ The report investigated seven cases in detail, and in four of them said there was sufficient evidence to mount a prosecution.
▪ The successful farmer of Luke and the story of the rich man and Lazarus are sufficient evidence of that.
▪ If sufficient evidence is not available, progress must be reviewed to try to find a way forward.
▪ But even with this limitation, there is sufficient evidence of the conductor's authority.
▪ While perfect certainty that an element exists is not needed for recognition, there must be sufficient evidence that this is so.
funds
▪ The problem is both simple and complex: the lack of sufficient funds.
▪ Many beneficent projects have to be foregone if sufficient funds are lacking.
▪ And then, unless they had sufficient funds to buy several stocks, they might not be spreading their investment sufficiently.
▪ You may find that the lender with the lowest interest rate will not advance sufficient funds.
▪ However, critics claimed that this scheme did not provide sufficient funds to those in real need.
▪ Leisure centres close their doors because of a lack of sufficient funds to operate them.
▪ The number of companies which could not meet payment orders for lack of sufficient funds rose by 60 percent.
▪ Neither profession yielded sufficient funds for his expensive lifestyle.
information
▪ The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid.
▪ In any case, an irresponsible control program has been set in motion without sufficient information as to its future effects.
▪ An inventory should contain sufficient information to enable the unequivocal identification of an object.
▪ Without sufficient information, a selection decision should be delayed until the book has appeared.
▪ There is not sufficient information available at this point in the parse to complete all of this rule.
▪ Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust.
▪ B and K claimed that the Board should give them sufficient information to enable them to answer the case against them.
▪ Customers must also be given sufficient information about the risks involved in a transaction adequately to assess the merits of that transaction.
interest
▪ Provided there is sufficient interest, tenders should also result in certainty of sale within a defined period.
▪ Defining sufficient interest is relatively easy where one or more persons are more seriously affected by a decision than people generally.
▪ But where a decision affects everyone in general and no one in particular it is much harder to define sufficient interest.
▪ Friends of the Earth responded by asserting that there was sufficient interest among energy suppliers to provide three times that amount.
▪ But the rest is certainly of sufficient interest to warrant a recording.
▪ If sufficient interest is shown, preliminary arrangements can then be made.
▪ Neighbours have sufficient interest to challenge planning decisions in respect of neighbouring land.
▪ If there is sufficient interest for a return visit to either or both the nI will be pleased to arrange the day.
money
▪ Many of the smaller cloth mills were unable to plough sufficient money into such modernisation schemes, so fell by the wayside.
▪ But even then the surviving directors will need sufficient money to buy the shares - at the market rate.
▪ Make sure you have sufficient money for a month's deposit when you begin your tour of inspection. 8.
number
▪ Unless women can stop feeling apologetic about wanting power, they will never be in sufficient numbers to change the male agenda.
▪ And is there no implied intention, then, to rest satisfied with some final body or sufficient number of facts?
▪ The exception are aristocrats, who are served by a sufficient number of other people to be freed of this daily burden.
▪ Sending out a sufficient number of Bracewell-style probes would be prohibitively expensive.
▪ There is already evidence to show knitwear firms are failing to attract sufficient numbers of young people.
▪ Consequently, odours may amount to a public nuisance if they substantially inconvenience a sufficient number of people.
▪ There are cases in which prosecutions failed because the nuisance did not interfere with a sufficient number of the public.
numbers
▪ Unless women can stop feeling apologetic about wanting power, they will never be in sufficient numbers to change the male agenda.
▪ I would suggest that it is highly unlikely that sufficient numbers of Timbury type continuing care units will be provided.
▪ There are not sufficient numbers of lockers to allow one per person.
▪ There is already evidence to show knitwear firms are failing to attract sufficient numbers of young people.
▪ One hopes they come forward in sufficient numbers to make such an item available to all ecologically minded funeral-arrangers before too long.
▪ It contributes to the syndrome of parasitic gastroenteritis and only occasionally occurs in sufficient numbers to cause clinical disease on its own.
▪ Perhaps the crocodiles, through their speed, were able to kill sufficient numbers of smaller animals to survive the winter.
quantity
▪ However the market will not provide a sufficient quantity of public goods.
▪ Money alone and in sufficient quantities can qualify virtually any measure for the ballot.
▪ The resources, whether material or human, are not there in anything like sufficient quantities, it is said.
▪ The proposal is reproduced in sufficient quantities and is received by the granting organization.
▪ During the Second World War the whole economic effort centred on supplying and employing sufficient quantities of labour and materials.
▪ There either are such people in sufficient quantities or there are not.
▪ Make sure lettuce is available all the time and in sufficient quantity.
▪ In which case, it is impossible to see how the plesiosaurs could obtain sufficient quantities of food to survive.
reason
▪ There are exceptions, but the fact that information is held in confidence is not as such a sufficient reason for exemption.
▪ Local patrols had sufficient reason to be assiduous in their duties.
▪ All the early aircraft had very low wing loadings for sufficient reasons.
▪ But is this sufficient reason to continue using thalidomide?
▪ But the person with sufficient reason for his faith can avoid the otherwise powerful down-tow toward nonsense and absurdity.
▪ The theory challenges the assumption of orthodox welfare economics that the existence of market failure is sufficient reason for governmental intervention.
▪ Nearly two weeks later the police admitted that this was not sufficient reason for refusing bail.
support
▪ The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
▪ But it appears to lack sufficient support.
▪ You must make your own arrangements to ensure sufficient support.
▪ Compromise proposals to leave the government ministries in Bonn but move the Bundestag to Berlin failed to find sufficient support.
▪ I do not find in this decision a sufficient support for the wide proposition for which Mr. Collins contends.
▪ Elections were to be contested up to the level of Dáil Éireann when the movement had built up sufficient support.
▪ He decided to resign, not as a tactical manoeuvre, but because he did not have sufficient support to carry on.
▪ On June 27 the liberal opposition failed to win sufficient support to set up a parliamentary inquiry.
time
▪ In order to study effectively you need to be organised and to put sufficient time aside to learn and to reflect.
▪ When the consultant arrives for interviews, is he or she greeted warmly and given sufficient time for discussion?
▪ Give yourself sufficient time to get really stuck into your subject-matter.
▪ Customers needed to receive catalogs in sufficient time to take advantage of these offers.
▪ To stretch properly you need to be warm, and to give yourself sufficient time.
▪ For example, is there sufficient time set aside for the collection of data?
▪ Given sufficient time with other things remaining unchanged, prices and wages would eventually be adjusted and full employment may be restored.
▪ Numerous options are available, but you must allow sufficient time for the transfer.
understanding
▪ The Children Act places great emphasis on the child's right to make decisions where he has sufficient understanding to do so.
▪ Where the child has sufficient understanding the court may want to know his or her likely response to the proposed direction.
▪ If the child is of sufficient understanding his views should not simply be disregarded because it is difficult to ascertain them.
▪ At field level, this implies a sufficient understanding of the contribution which different parties can make.
▪ A child with sufficient understanding to give instructions may select his own solicitor.
▪ It is a matter of fact in each case whether a child has sufficient understanding to make certain decisions or take certain actions.
▪ The House of Lords ruled that she could, provided she had sufficient understanding.
▪ This was intended to help elderly people no longer fully capable, but still with sufficient understanding to create the power.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was decided that there was sufficient evidence to convict Marconi.
▪ Proof of sufficient funds is required for entrance into Namibia.
▪ The money should be sufficient for one month's travel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Give yourself sufficient time to get really stuck into your subject-matter.
▪ Given sufficient time with other things remaining unchanged, prices and wages would eventually be adjusted and full employment may be restored.
▪ However, with endowments and Isas, there is always the risk that investment returns will not be sufficient.
▪ In fact, sufficient nuclei are always present in the atmosphere.
▪ Macleod was attacked by both liberals and conservatives in the Legco for failing to provide sufficient tax concessions to middle income earners.
▪ This is not true of all goods, but that it is true of a substantial part is sufficient.