Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never in all his experience , wrote Taylor , had he seen or heard of such covenants in a mining lease . |
| 2 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |
| 3 | In almost every one of the analyses that he showed , the primary enabling inventions that led to such advances lay in the materials field . |
| 4 | Miles which in Classical times denoted an ordinary soldier had , by the eleventh century , come to mean ‘ knight ’ and led to such forms as Miles Parliamentalis = knight of the shire , and miles agrarius = holder of a knight 's fee . |
| 5 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 6 | All cheques shall be signed and countersigned by such persons as the Executive Committee shall determine . |
| 7 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
| 8 | On one level , whilst the rhetoric of such intervention is often that of the free market , the logic seems to differ little from that of social engineering and regional policy which was commonly thought out of fashion and eschewed in such circles over ten years ago . |
| 9 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 10 | A Digital spokeswoman in Massachusetts declined to say when the decision would be made , but said in such cases , the affected employees were always the first to be notified . |