The phrase "adequate it was" is correct and can be used in written English, though it has an archaic or poetic tone.
You can use it in contexts where you want to emphasize the adequacy of something in a stylistic or dramatic manner.
Example: "In the end, after much deliberation, I concluded that adequate it was for our needs."
Alternatives: "it was sufficient" or "it was acceptable."
The couple had driven away in a small car belonging to Florence's mother and arrived in the early evening at their hotel on the coast in weather that was not perfect for mid-June or the circumstances but was entirely adequate: it was not raining, but nor was it quite warm enough, according to Florence, to eat outside on the terrace, as they had hoped.
(DRC A1) Whilst the family medicine curriculum was viewed as adequate, it was felt that the training needs support, with practical exposure to basic surgery and anaesthetics.
Internal consistency was good and initial validity of the scale was adequate, it was able to discriminate differences between clinical variables, however, further work is needed to confirm the factor structure and validity of the AESED.
In order to demonstrate that the proposed V j -gating model is adequate, it is necessary to compare its output to experimental results.
And while the sound is adequate, it is nothing more than that.
But the dispersion of power also means there is now a tendency towards stagnation, because there are huge vested interests against change, even of a moderate and sensible kind".The key people are not adequate; it is not organised.
The larger the CEC, the more K can be held by the soil and the more adequate it is for the plants.
Considering the usual dataset of hammering samples, usually around a few hundred in our application, we found the k-means algorithm, usually used in data consolidation or pre-clustering, being adequate: it is simple and computationally fast enough.
If the governor thinks the bill's safeguards are adequate, it's difficult to envision him vetoing it.
But that's exactly why, if our retirement system is ever going to evolve beyond the cave man stage to something fair and effective and adequate, it's going to be because of people like him.
When this quality is functionally adequate, it is defined as a competence.
