Example sentences of "such [adj] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Parker these compounds are such strong ionophores that they were ‘ highly ineffective ’ at detecting arylammonium ions , such as ephedrinium , in the presence of metal ions . |
| 2 | Indeed , Hildyard and Olson do recognise the dangers of stating their case in such strong terms and they attempt to qualify it . |
| 3 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |
| 4 | As I 'm sure you know , the majority of girls seeking such posts can neither read nor write and are of such low intelligence that they have no control over the children ; in fact , the children soon take advantage of them . |
| 5 | Is the Secretary of State concerned that some workers in Britain get such low wages that they are forced to apply for social security benefit ? |
| 6 | In the absence of a minimum wage , many of our constituents earn such low wages that they have to resort to state benefits on top . |
| 7 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 8 | Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run . |
| 9 | Many analyses of the unions in the 1970s suggested that such political power as they possessed rested on their ability to defy incomes policies over time and veto ( as In Place of Strife ) or render inoperable the policies or legislation which they did not like . |
| 10 | The other side of the coin was the pressure which could be exerted upon such foreign soldiers if they attempted to come home to vote in an election in opposition to a man of influence . |
| 11 | There were cormorants , black , long-necked diving birds like those that fly low along Brazilian rivers , but here in the Galapagos , their wings were so small and with such stunted feathers that they had lost the power of flight . |
| 12 | This time , the crew were in such high spirits that they dropped Nickles over the heart of Berlin , spirits that were somewhat subdued when it was realised that they could not close the bomb bay doors after combing . |
| 13 | Normally common sense and her instinct for self-protection , much sharpened since her disastrous relationship with Giles , would have outlawed such foolish thoughts before they even reached her conscious mind . |
| 14 | Roughly speaking , chapters in the present alternate with chapters from earlier periods , cast in such different styles that they emphasize the novel 's formal discontinuity . |
| 15 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 16 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 17 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 18 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 19 | The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor . |
| 20 | When these hatch , the young ants serve their captors , collecting food and feeding it to them , for the slave-makers have such large jaws that they can not feed themselves . |
| 21 | But speculations of this sort are founded on such improbable premises that they do not help us to understand what actually happened , and merely prompt the rejoinder , ‘ So what ? ’ |
| 22 | Llanelli and Neath , to name but two , are in such vibrant health that they may present the tourists with a respectable challenge . |
| 23 | As newspaper costs escalated and as the nature of the commodity changed politicians and political parties saw their financial grip over newspapers being prised open ; by the late 19th century , newspapers had become such costly ventures that they were beyond the reach of politicians . |
| 24 | When the ‘ real ’ spies did turn up ( one carried the Guardian as a signal ) they acted with such obvious shadiness that they were instantly recognisable . |
| 25 | The prime requirement for opposing batsmen became courage rather than skill , and it was all unnecessary since they were such fine bowlers that they could dismiss teams cheaply when bowling in an orthodox manner . |
| 26 | His winning formula has been to restore the houses in stages , a wing at a time : they are so attractive and such good value that they almost invariably sell before they are completed . |
| 27 | This means that although credit cards are probably still the cheapest way to pay bills abroad , they may not be quite such good value as they used to be . |
| 28 | It is the sort of thing known by its fruit ; and by the second half of the nineteenth century conservation of matter and of energy were such effective assumptions that they were generally taken for established truths . |
| 29 | The silk industry in which two million thalers were sunk ( heavy investment for a poor country ) produced goods of such poor quality that they were very difficult to sell . |
| 30 | Within a few weeks the Minister Mrs Hedy d'Ancona , who is on record as saying that some of the works are in such poor condition that they can not be given away without loss of face , will come forward with a number of proposals . |