Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by such [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme . |
| 2 | With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand . |
| 3 | ‘ We regularly come into contact with elderly people whose lives have been ruined by such cowardly attacks , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 4 | ‘ The divine right of kings does n't mean you can pinch my soap , ’ Fairbrother had snarled , and the three other boys in the wash room had been electrified by such dazzling insolence . |
| 5 | This inherent seriousness has been increased by such dour teachers as Calvin and Luther . |
| 6 | Thus the inception of a new focus for the study of chronology has been promoted by such stimulating developments and Bowen ( 1979 ) points out that the CLIMAP group have discovered significant evidence which supports the idea that the immediate future is one of adverse orbital geometry and general cooling and hence that ‘ the prediction of the future must rest on the past in the present ’ ( Bowen , 1979 , p. 181 ) . |
| 7 | Certainly it was popular in Hellenistic and Roman times , and as a free-standing statue was no doubt a late idea ; but the idea could very well have been suggested by such fifth-century pediment-statues as these . |