If he missed a performance with no adequate excuse, the fine rose to one pound (£1).

Lorgh had no sons of his own, so that would provide an adequate excuse for this step.

"But competition is not going to be an adequate excuse if elements of this story turn out to be wrong."

But a mother's illness is not normally considered an adequate excuse for turning up late on military service.

'Pressure of work,' he says, as that's an adequate excuse.

The arrival of our sons gave me an adequate excuse for a home computer.

But when the life and character of Israel are at stake, those are not adequate excuses.

None of these reasons provides an adequate excuse for leaving an important ingredient like behaviour to chance.

I know that's not an adequate excuse, but I offer it as an explanation.

His tone made it clear that he did not consider being troubled an adequate excuse.