Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] adequately [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Another aspect of the data that has not been adequately explained is known as odd-even staggering .
2 If you have not been adequately consulted , and a tribunal is satisfied that consultation could have made a difference to the redundancy decision , there is a good chance that you will succeed in an unfair dismissal claim and be entitled to compensation .
3 The useful age range may therefore be 20–300 ka , although its true limits have not been adequately explored .
4 The tachistoscopic and dichotic listening techniques lack reliability and , by and large , have not been adequately validated against other criteria .
5 In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure .
6 So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt .
7 Somehow , the aircraft had not been adequately lashed down on the low loader and as the lorry moved forward the Firefly rolled off its trestles on to the bed of the lorry damaging the undersides of the aircraft in the process , the aircraft was then reloaded and secured and thankfully the reset of the trip to Duxford was uneventful .
8 The assumption that shell material , once laid down , is never removed , has not been adequately tested .
9 The theories which have been advanced so far have not been adequately tested in empirical research so as to gain credibility .
10 The report said that many of the chemicals in commercial use today had not been adequately tested for their toxicity .
11 It was easier for the Thatcherites to attack the welfare state successfully because its principles and institutions had not been adequately defended , as Dorothy Wedderburn and others were warning as early as 1964 ( Wedderburn , 1965 ) .
12 Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components .
13 In particular , responsibilities had not been adequately defined , and , although the Ships ' Masters had raised concerns , the lack of any appropriate feedback system meant they fell by the wayside .
14 It could open doors for older people too , but the foundations for changing attitudes have not been adequately laid .
15 Certainly an observer of the National Curriculum scene in France or West Germany would have to admit that achieving successful cross-curricular approaches is extremely difficult and has not been adequately solved , even with their long experience .
16 A study of the failures at Sicily gave Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott three lines of thought : more training was essential — he had let Nos. 3 and 4 COPPs go out only with reluctance ; more attention was needed in fitting the suits , for which these teams had not been adequately measured ; and thirdly , the life-jackets they wore could not always be inflated in emergencies .
17 They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered .
18 What has not been adequately considered is Foucault 's characterization of an epistemological shift within the theorization of history itself .
19 The science of art , claims Kemp , has not been adequately appreciated by art historians and to begin to rectify the situation he strives to demonstrate that ‘ there were special kinds of affinity between the central intellectual and observational concerns in the visual arts and the sciences , in European history between the Renaissance and the nineteenth century ( p. 1 ) .
20 What has not been adequately appreciated , however , is that a whole constellation of social forces — high infant mortality rates , loss of mother 's income , the fluctuating utility of child labour — could equally well encourage fertility control .
21 ‘ In addition , anglers believe that the added value which angling brings to the region has not been adequately addressed by the Commission in recent years , ’ the statement adds .
22 A report commissioned by the World Bank on the Narmada Dam in India concludes that the environmental impacts of the project have not been adequately addressed , and as no fair resettlement of the 250,000 tribal people is possible , World Bank funding should be suspended .
23 However , if you are living in a flat that has not been adequately soundproofed , you can lay a false floating floor .
24 ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’
25 However , successful regeneration can not be adequately defined in solely physical terms .
26 With the reservation , following Bolton , ‘ that a small firm could not be adequately defined in terms of employment or assets , turnover or any other arbitrary single quantity , nor would the same definition be appropriate through the economy ’ , we can adopt with him an upper limit of 200 employees for small manufacturing firms ; and note that , in 1963 , when he adopted that limit , the average number of people employed in such a firm was 25 .
27 Moreover , analysis of the actions of these complex groups is essential to an understanding of policy-making in government : ‘ The behaviors that constitute the process of government can not be adequately understood apart from the groups , especially the organised and potential interest groups , which are operative at any point in time ’ .
28 The present attitude of the courts towards judicial review can not be adequately understood unless some idea is conveyed of eighteenth and nineteenth century case law .
29 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge .
30 The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make .
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