Example sentences of "such a [noun] [conj] there " in BNC.

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1 And sometimes , leaving his office , he would close his door in such a way that there seemed to be something or someone intriguing behind it , as Richard Miller noticed when he went to talk to him about banking for the contras ; it was deliberately stage-like , impressive .
2 Part of the training is here to make that point very clear : the aircraft/avionics interface is designed in such a way that there can be no failure which will end in loss of control authority , but one must of course invest time and effort to understand the procedures .
3 Both sensory and contextual information interact in such a way that there is a trade-off between them ; the more contextual information input to a logogen from its top-down sources , the less sensory information is needed to bring the logogen above threshold for activation .
4 So there you have it — what happened and why in the greatest detail , reported without fear or favour , in such a way that there is no ambiguity as to what corrective measures are necessary .
5 Further comment relating to the method included the ‘ … spotty , speckled effect — which in some ways I find not particularly satisfactory … a little difficult to enjoy ’ , and the paint which is sometimes ‘ dragged on ’ but also often ‘ dragged and spread in such a way that there 's some sort of movement ’ .
6 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful .
7 Indeed , as one account put it , ‘ The Incas ruled their people in such a way that there was among them neither a thief nor a vicious man nor a sluggard nor an adulterous woman …
8 It says the personality is structured in such a way that there is an egoistic anti-social area , the id .
9 They have an ingenious device called a " lens ' , whose shape appears to be mathematically calculated so that it bends these silent rays in such a way that there is an exact one-to-one mapping between objects in the world and an " image " on a sheet of cells called the " retina " .
10 Auditors are not responsible for reporting on irregulated entities overall compliance with rules with which it is required to comply , that 's unlike local government , nor are they required to conduct there work in such a way that there is reasonable certainty that they will discover breaches .
11 These have proved to be such a success that there is now a virtual two month long waiting list at Tyseley with booking now stretching into April next year .
12 Standardisation has reached such a level that there are now only five main types of AC unit , the pre-1960 Southern Region-inspired slam-door units ( Classes 302–8 ) , express ( Class 309 ) , modern slam-door ( Classes 310/312 ) , Scotland/Manchester suburban sliding door ( Classes 303/31 1 ) , inner suburban sliding door ( Classes 313–315 ) , and modern outer-suburban based on the Mark 3 coach bodyshell ( Classes 317–21 ) .
13 It often emerges from the answer to such a question that there really is no argument .
14 The 1980s saw an explosion in corporate , commercial and financial services work on such a scale that there is currently a shortage of lawyers , despite the admission of record numbers of new entrants to the profession in recent years ( The Law Society 1990 ) .
15 But I am sure that the Treasury could run such a system and there would be few tears for the banks we have now .
16 In many cases this would render consideration of A's tort liability in a case of actual knowledge otiose , but it seems possible to assert such a claim where there is some additional loss .
17 Subsequently , however , they appear to suggest that the police would be unlikely to pursue such a complaint unless there was evidence of injury .
18 Incestuous feeling need not always figure in such a situation but there is no doubt that it often does .
19 It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole .
20 There is far more genuine material about than there is false or suspect ; and much is of such a nature that there is no temptation for anyone to forge it .
21 The message that again and again comes through the pages of history , is that humanity must arrange its political affairs in such a manner that there is always room for a religious life in some form for those who want it .
22 It follows that an exception of that kind must be treated in such a manner that there is no possibility of the very existence of that principle being called in question .
23 But it is possible that we have such an idea when there is no external thing like it .
24 The whole thing sometimes appears such an enigma that there might almost have been a conspiracy of silence .
25 MONDAY After the Miracle by William Gibson , which continues the wonderful Helen Keller story , was produced by the Horseshoe Theatre Company at the Central Studio , Basingstoke in 1990 and made such an impact that there were demands for a repeat .
26 The enthusiasm of the common people for the old sports was weakened to such an extent that there was a genuine receptiveness on the part of the mass of the population to the revised forms of play that were being nurtured amongst the privileged in the mid-Victorian public schools .
27 Jesus felt despair and sorrow to such an extent that there is a mood of desperation in the story .
28 THE determined but unpopular Jeremy Isaacs , yet to achieve a gong , has been upsetting the Establishment with his high-handed behaviour at the Royal Opera House to such an extent that there is now a new saying doing the rounds , namely : ‘ This is one knight that wo n't happen at the Opera ! ’
29 But perhaps the most striking of all the devices are the frequent self-conscious comments made by the author , laying bare his devices precisely by pointing out the differences between fabula and syuzhet , as , for example , in the following : In Tristram Shandy ( and in the O. Henry stories discussed in another essay by Eikhenbaum ) the devices are laid bare to such an extent that there remains hardly any motivation for the much diminished fabula .
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