Example sentences of "[noun sg] such as [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary . |
| 2 | There are two distinct objections to the hereditary principle — one is that hereditary peers are not elected ; the other is that blue blood is no guarantee of any particular merit , competence or expertise such as one would wish for in a Parliamentarian . |
| 3 | But I mean you do n't want to er start working in the mines for peanuts or anything do you , you want it to be a good job such as everybody else . |
| 4 | The townsfolk must have gazed in amazement as there came ashore fine silks , spices , calicoes and jewellery such as none had seen before , including some ‘ … other stones of a green colour with spots of red ’ . |
| 5 | Hartley Coleridge said of Green ‘ Amid many discouragements and with no better patrons than the mutable public of Lakers , his spirit never flagged , his hand and eye were never idle , and he had a healthy love for his employment such as none but an honest man could understand . ’ |
| 6 | He had a hearty , healthy love of his employment such as none but an honest man could feel or understand . |
| 7 | But Wolf 's concern for " stimulus " and " suggestion " was , ultimately , a means to an end that might be defined very much in terms of " knowledge " and not at all in terms of cultural purpose such as one would associate with a figure like Lessing . |
| 8 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |