sufficient - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • become: However, in 1919 it was increasingly felt that the club should become self sufficient.

Modifies a noun

  • quantity: The Reports stated anthrax does not exist in sufficient quantities to be harmful.
  • evidence: To be charitable there needs to be sufficient evidence of the efficacy of the method to be used.
  • fund: Revenue is forecast to provide sufficient funds for further improvements in the future.
  • flexibility: It is advisable, wherever possible, to allow individual employees sufficient flexibility for them to organize their own work as much as possible.
  • capacity: There must be sufficient capacity in the right places to give everyone an equal opportunity to choose.
  • justification: The Director of Quality and Standards shall decide whether there is sufficient justification in the case for presentation to an Appeals Panel.

Modifying Another Word

  • barely: However the colleges, and the ecumenical courses also, have barely sufficient students to create viable United Reformed Church student cohorts.
  • quite: On the whole, younger students who can stay for three or four weeks or more find that 15 hours is quite sufficient.
  • usually: These consist of heaps of loose soil, usually sufficient in volume to fill a 5 liter bucket.

Infinitive complement

  • justify: Whether the extra link functionality of XLink is sufficient to justify widespread adoption is still a matter of debate.
  • satisfy: Oric has found that it has not produced sufficient to satisfy expected demand.
  • enable: This has been achieved due to a ' surge ' sufficient to enable capital to break free of the gravitational pull of the state.
  • induce: One close encounter of this sort is usually sufficient to induce sensitivity.
  • meet: Environmental legislation is not sufficient to meet sustainability targets so to achieve them, economic activities must take better account of environmental objectives.
  • prevent: At this stage simply bringing the account ' up to date ' will not be sufficient to prevent legal action being taken against you.

Used with adjective complement

  • consider: A team sheet will not be considered sufficient to comply with this Rule, other than in a Reserve Section fixture.
  • seem: Even such thoroughly immoral cultures as that of white slaveholders would seem sufficient to ground the sorts of national partiality she defends.

Preposition: in

  • quantity: These were sufficient in quantity and nature to require the holding of a Local Inquiry.

Preposition: for

  • purpose: Log file analysis is not sufficient for this purpose.

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