Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste .
2 The Secretary of State 's worries about the control of Soviet nuclear weapons , given the potential breakdown of the Soviet Union , would not then have been based on such mind-boggling perceived dangers .
3 It is possible that some of the high recorded reflectance values from the East Midlands Platform and Cleveland High areas may have been enhanced by such effects .
4 The variation in size would have been enormous as the existing parish councils would have been joined by such cities as Sheffield as ‘ local councils ’ .
5 That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear .
6 Important as was the consciousness of self-government , the fueros would not have been defended with such obstinacy had they not conferred substantial economic advantages , designed originally to favour poor frontier provinces .
7 The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions .
8 Financial troubles marred these years : fear of arrest for debt probably motivated his flight to the Continent in November 1777 ; his resignation from the army in May 1780 may likewise have been prompted by such troubles .
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