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The phrase "adequate or not" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when evaluating whether something meets a certain standard or requirement.
Example: "We need to assess the quality of the report and determine if it is adequate or not."
Alternatives: "sufficient or insufficient" or "acceptable or unacceptable".
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I am sure I have done things that were not adequate or not right.
"Whether the response was adequate or not, I can't tell you," he said.
"We're also hoping it will spur greater debate about whether the current federal standards are adequate or not," Ms. Sharp said.
He urged that Shell be obliged to rewrite its exploration documents to include the new response plans and allow the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement to formally review "whether that response is adequate or not".
"With the current uncertainty over the rules, you cannot be sure when you can enter in some transaction or whether your counterparties are adequate or not," said another person in the industry.
"We are disappointed that the parliament did not set a greater level of compensation for those many thousands of small taxi businesses... [but] we welcome the commitment by government to review the adjustment package in 12 months time to see if it has been adequate or not".
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Thirdly, tissues were not adequate enough or not available for determining ER status in 9 patients and HER2 in 25 patients.
There are projects for which the criterion of success involves producing true theories; there are others where the criterion of success involves producing theories that are empirically adequate, whether or not they are also true.
These were graded as adequate, unclear, or not described and inadequate (for example, alternation, allocation by day of admission, hospital room), as recommended in the Cochrane Handbook.
Meta-analyses were conducted for each quality criterion outlined previously, stratifying the pooled risk ratio by whether studies were judged to be of adequate quality or not.
Are they adequate measures or not?
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