Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] sufficient " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 2 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 3 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 4 | That would have been sufficient to deprive John Major of a majority and bring down his government . |
| 5 | A booking would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 6 | These factors alone would have been sufficient to convince advertisers that it was not the medium for the affluent ‘ never-had-it-so-good ’ Macmillan era . |
| 7 | So the label switching in itself constitutes an appropriation and so to have held would have been sufficient for the dismissal of both appeals . |
| 8 | Moreover , Mary had a matter of her own to digest which at any other time would have been sufficient preoccupation . |
| 9 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 10 | It would have been sufficient for me to say : ‘ A duiker is a small antelope . ’ |
| 11 | This man this truth is extremely important , because if Jesus died only as a man , his sacrificial anointment would have been sufficient to take |
| 12 | The ordinary methods of Hellenistic ethnography would have been sufficient . |
| 13 | A page of Herodotus would have been sufficient to put a battalion of biblical scholars out of action . |
| 14 | He has suggested that rare collisions between the earth and comets , recorded as scatters of tektites , must have produced vast quantities of energy that would have been sufficient to heat up considerably both the atmosphere arid the surface layers of the oceans . |
| 15 | In Kennedy v. Broun ( 1863 ) 13 C.B. 677 ( Common Pleas ) Erle C.J. said that in Lampleigh v. Brathwait , ‘ it was assumed that the journeys which the plaintiff performed at the request of the defendant , and the other services he rendered , would have been sufficient to make any promise binding if it had been connected therewith in one contract ; the peculiarity of the decision lies in connecting a subsequent promise with a prior consideration after it had been executed . |
| 16 | The fuel would have been sufficient to keep the boat going for only a couple of hours , he added . |
| 17 | A penalty would have been sufficient punishment . |