Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were odd cases of profiteering such as the rental and catering concession held by Mears at Chelsea , but these were the exceptions that proved the rule . |
| 2 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 3 | Medically there is little change in factors such as blood pressure , and risk of heart disease , though there could be a moderate fall in blood cholesterol level if this is elevated at the start of the diet . |
| 4 | We are always delighted to arrange private views for societies such as yours , and will do our best to accommodate your requirements . |
| 5 | Frequently , however , items that now have low and/or back vowels , are given with [ Ε ] : these include rether for ‘ rather ’ ( a rural Scots residue ) , e for a in single nasal environments in polysyllables such as exemine , Jenuary and in nasal cluster environments such as demsel , exemple , Entrim ( 'Antrim' ) , slent , bendy ( 'bandy' ) , brench . |
| 6 | Recent attempts to subdivide the largely homogeneous psammites of the Grampian Group into shallow- and deep-water facies are supported in part by the regional distributions of elements such as cobalt and vanadium . |
| 7 | It will also help fund the establishment of new national parks , tribal homelands and extractive reserves for activities such as rubber tapping and Brazil nut gathering . |
| 8 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 9 | The age and frailty of this patient group are often used as justifications for limiting investigations and employing palliative methods of treatment such as endoscopic balloon dilatation or stenting . |
| 10 | The fiction may be spoken at different times by characters such as " Chaucer " , the Miller and the Reeve . |
| 11 | Beneath the chandeliers only the Louis XVI table , the Queen in zinc ( for patriotic reasons ) , a few objects in electro-metal such as Fame Scattering Petals on Shakespeare 's Tomb , with the heads of certain men of letters , and a few stuffed birds in the rubble of plaster and brickwork brought down by the sepoy cannons , remained . |
| 12 | 3.2 In seeking to apply this definition , it is recognised that , while some forms of violence such as physical assault or explicit threats are easily identified , others such as verbal abuse are more difficult to assess . |
| 13 | The period was marked by mass demonstrations , of which the Aldermaston marches were the most successful as well as the best remembered , and by more direct forms of action such as well-planned and highly publicized sorties against selected US rocket bases situated in Britain . |
| 14 | These sheets lined different areas of the tomb and separated different groups of offerings such as ceramic vessels , bronze implements , llama limbs and shell beads . |
| 15 | It was suggested in chapter 3 that social role can be varied to some extent by , for example , manipulating discourse patterns or by creating an acceptable category of identity such as that of ‘ friend of a friend ’ . |
| 16 | While many of these types of work categories are still very broad , what the tables ( and diagrams ) show clearly is that there is a marked contrast between subjects such as computing and engineering ( civil , electrical/electronic , mechanical ) where one type of work absorbs 70 per cent or more of the graduate output , and subjects such as English , history , biological sciences or social studies where graduates are absorbed into a fairly even plurality of occupations ; with everything in between these two extremes . |
| 17 | The involvement of influential people , including many heterosexuals , in all areas of public life ; the high visibility of figures such as Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman ; the size and nature of the demonstrations and direct actions made it great television material . |
| 18 | If you watch our top riders in action such as Ginny Leng , Mary Thomson , Mark Todd and the like , they demonstrate perfectly how to keep a horse in rhythm and balance with the correct amount of impulsion to jump each fence . |
| 19 | For example , the lack of a rigid division of labour such as is found in Britain reflects and reinforces the strength of vertical ties . |
| 20 | In conclusion , I make this plea to countries such as Germany — a country for which I have the highest regard : they should be cautious about promising recognition for Croatia and Slovenia by any precise date , and about breaking ranks within the European Community . |
| 21 | ‘ There will be the chance to explore different forms of theatre such as street theatre . |
| 22 | Tied to this is a faith in the competence of epistemology to evaluate different forms of knowledge such that the ‘ scientific ’ and ‘ rational ’ can be distinguished and privileged as superior forms of knowledge to the ‘ ideological ’ . |
| 23 | IBM Corp last week boosted the versatility of its Power Visualisation System , a parallel server for generating and manipulating complex images at high speed in applications such as medicine and geophysics , and cut prices on the thing by 25% to 40% , lowering the entry point to $320,000 from $528,000 . |
| 24 | Selected or key settlements may be service centres ; they may also be associated with public investment in facilities such as schools and council housing , and designated for residential expansion or for industrial growth ( Woodruffe 1976 ) . |
| 25 | A common approach is to suggest that there are different styles of leadership such as : |
| 26 | In spite of receiving sharp criticism of this practice from researchers such as Reeves and Chevannes ( 1981 ) the Swann Committee repeated this model of data collection . |
| 27 | The influence of theoretical research in glaciology such as that by the physicist J.F. Nye ( 1952 ) was substantial . |
| 28 | When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience . |
| 29 | Moreover , there are difficulties in knowing how to relate different sorts of probabilities such as those which concern the degree of credit to be given to a judgement and those which are of a statistical nature . |
| 30 | The remaining metals were mainly used to modify the properties of the others by alloying and for specialised functions in construction such as joining by soldering . |