Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx 's abstractions were not of such an order , rather his abstractions were concrete historical ones . |
| 2 | If it were not for such giving the burden on the formal services and on tax payers would be far greater . |
| 3 | we were n't in such a financial state we 're in now ? |
| 4 | Frankly , if I were n't in such a high-risk position , I 'd want someone a little more cosy as my obstetrician , but Owen is the best for someone like me and at times he can be a dear , so I should n't complain … |
| 5 | Villagers attending the annual parish meeting last week made it clear they were heavily against such a proposal . |
| 6 | The kings of England continued to be rulers of Hanover for another seventy years , until the crowns were divided upon the accession of Queen Victoria because only men could rule in Hanover , but after 1760 the interests of Hanover were never of such importance in deciding British policy . |
| 7 | And from that centre of chivalry , the Burgundian court , came the nobleman Jacques de Lalain in 1448 , to challenge James , brother of William earl of Douglas , ‘ neither for hatred nor envy nor any evil wish whatsoever , but to do the greatest honour in his power to one who came of such high descent , and was besides of such great renown and courage , that he desired his acquaintance more than that of any lord in the said kingdom of Scotland ’ . |
| 8 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 9 | They told me not to bother doing the premises up since it was only for such a short time . |
| 10 | It was only in such oblique ways that he referred to his state of deserted , now divorced , husband . |
| 11 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 12 | Clearly Cherrington was not above such tactics either , for he seems to have destroyed the ditch . |
| 13 | He gave little thought to it then , reasoning that she was not in such grave earnest that she would actually attempt to turn her indignant dream into action . |
| 14 | ‘ They would never have dared to do this here if our country was not in such a mess at present , ’ an Italian security source said after the murder , referring to country 's the growing political crisis . |
| 15 | She was always in such a hurry , jumping out of bed and straight into her workaday clothes , that she had failed to take notice of the fact that she was growing into a very shapely young woman . |
| 16 | She was now in such pain , and moment by moment it got worse . |
| 17 | It was n't with such a Sunday that he made the most significant comparison , however , but with the Sundays of his childhood . |
| 18 | And if they were n't properly done , you 'd tell the forewoman that that was n't in such and such a coach in compartment was needing under the seats were needing cleaning . |
| 19 | At least I you see , with the virus I was sometimes in such a state that I thought I might have bowel cancer |
| 20 | It was precisely along such lines that Bukharin advanced his objections to Preobrazhensky 's attempt to remove the state and its policies from theoretical analysis , even at the high level of abstraction that had been suggested . |
| 21 | I was there , as I said , for two and a half years , so it would have been difficult for the teachers to respond to my presence in an artificial way because I was there for such a long time . |
| 22 | I was there , as I have said , for two and a half years , so it would have been difficult for the teachers to erm respond to my presence erm in an artificial way because I was there for such a long time . |
| 23 | The sentencer regarded the case as an exceptional one The Court considered that it had many exceptional features which would allow a sentencer to reduce the sentence which would otherwise have been imposed , but it was seldom in such a case that a sentence of less than seven years would be appropriate . |
| 24 | But Devoy was never in such danger of losing as Jansher Khan in the men 's event , against Rodney Martin , the world champion from Australia . |