Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if he were propelled by such categorical imperative to fail , he could not reek loveableness out of every pore … |
| 2 | At the infrastructural level , the highways and transport system of Israel , Gaza and the West Bank were developed in such a way that it became increasingly easy to drive from Israel direct to one of the West Bank Jewish settlements without passing through Arab population centres . |
| 3 | Younger Palestinians — Palestinians who were born in Lebanon , for example — can remember how their parents angrily threw the keys away in the early 1950s , how the documents that were guarded with such care in the initial days of exile were mislaid or destroyed as their true meaning became clear ; because they proved ownership of a world that had disappeared . |
| 4 | She feels angry that the public were given so little information and were exposed to such large amounts of radiation , unable to take any precautions to protect themselves . |
| 5 | Health and safety inspectors had visited the site after an anonymous phone call from a woman expressing her concern that ‘ people in this day and age were exposed to such dangers . ’ |
| 6 | Copious quantities of Champagne wine were consumed by such a large influx of visitors , enabling the vineyards to flourish and the vignerons to prosper , and leading to the export of both the wine and its reputation throughout the growing markets of Europe . |
| 7 | The words were uttered with such chilling disinterest that Isabel 's stomach turned over and her legs started to tremble . |
| 8 | The words were uttered with such venom that Sabine 's head jerked back in shock . |
| 9 | Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors ' overall responsibilities . |
| 10 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 11 | Iron stemming rods were tipped with such metals but even then explosions still occurred . |
| 12 | Several important medieval and later pottery industries were located in such areas-Leafield and Nettlebed in Oxfordshire , Minety in Wiltshire , and Donyatt in Somerset , for example . |
| 13 | The five oligonucleotides shown in Fig. 5 were designed in such a way that the two motifs GGGCCC and AAAAA are differentially separated . |
| 14 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 15 | The keys were organised in such a way to prevent the typist from typing too quickly and thereby prevent the mechanically-operated rods of the typewriter from sticking . |
| 16 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 17 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 18 | That sport and , for that matter , entertainment may not be viable avenues from despair is less important than the fact that they were seen as such by groups who saw no alternatives . |
| 19 | Hospital records were sought for such patients who had died in care outside psychiatric hospitals . |
| 20 | Would that half of our consumer goods were manufactured with such care , such precision , such detail . |
| 21 | Unfortunately at the press conference our careful recommendations about the importance of Standard English were presented in such a way that many journalists came away with the false impression that we did not mind if children spoke dialect rather than Standard English . |
| 22 | Today augmentations are rarely given , but in times gone they were less rare and were granted to such as Thomas Howard , the victor of Flodden , Sir Winston Churchill of the reign of Charles II , his son John , first duke of Marlborough , Sir Frederick Treves , surgeon to King Edward VII , the Boleyn family for providing Anne to King Henry VIII , Admiral Nelson , the first Duke of Wellington and the Right Honourable Vincent Massey , a Governor-General of Canada . |
| 23 | Yet its inherent assumptions were implicit in most of the literary output of the Britons and the IFL and were disseminated through such groups as the NL . |
| 24 | Perhaps it 's sufficient to say that Diana , herself a Romanian , was deeply shocked and did not realise that children were living in such awful conditions in her own country . |
| 25 | The major spending services of the Metropolitan counties ( police , fire , public transport and probation ) , which accounted for some 70 per cent of their expenditure , were transferred to such joint boards ( notably Fire and Civil Defence Boards , Police Boards , Transport Boards ) . |
| 26 | Aircraft which were collected with such discrimination and taste , which were restored using the most scrupulous of standards and which were displayed for us and our children to enjoy at the Tamiami Airport near Miami , Florida . |
| 27 | The graduating seniors were accepted to such colleges as UCLA , Stanford , Harvard , Princeton , Yale , Michigan and Florida . |
| 28 | The EESA team consisted of the educational psychologist who originally proposed that the agency should be set up , a supervisor , and eight workers who were selected for such qualities as their apparent ability to empathize with their clients without seeming patronizing , and to deal with difficult situations . |
| 29 | The groups were selected in such a way that each should contain a fairly equal proportion of aristocrats , diplomats , artists , men of letters and distinguished academics . |
| 30 | Both were stabbed with such violence that ribs were broken with the force of impact . |