Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With the increasing emphasis on provision of housing and transport outside the state , these goods too are increasingly distributed and rationed along such lines . |
| 4 | The line which the law draws is at the very least indistinct , and turns on such imponderables as malum in se , mayhem , degrees of harmfulness , and public policy , and calls for an examination of such unsatisfactory cases as Donovan , Bravery v. |
| 5 | On the other hand , the audience for the images that were sometimes drawn and painted inside such books — portraits of the evangelists , for instance , or ( like the picture on the cover of this book ) of a royal patron — must have been very restricted . |
| 6 | If sweatshop bosses are to be competitive they must pay their workers low wages for long hours , cut corners on health and safety and forget about such niceties as job protection . |
| 7 | Vincente Minnelli , a director of the old school and greatly renowned and respected for such classics as The Band Wagon and An American in Paris , was looking for a touch of modernism to attract a young audience to a rather old-fashioned film called On a Clear Day You Can See Forever . |
| 8 | The recovery is slow and patchy , but the policy is sound — Labour Members who laugh and snigger at such remarks ought to ask themselves why it is that Britain of all the countries in Europe has the most inward investment from overseas investors . |
| 9 | By examining the relationship between the rate of return on capital invested in various industries and barriers to entry and exit from such industries , it is possible to test the hypothesis that monopoly power results in excessive profits . |
| 10 | And wait to such times as they could pay it back , |
| 11 | In order to illustrate ways in which the concept of mental lexicon may be made more specific and applied to such activities as reading , spelling , speaking and understanding speech , we will discuss the most ambitious and most influential model of the mental lexicon yet developed , the logogen model , originated by Morton ( 1968 , 1969 ) . |
| 12 | Health care can not be conveniently packaged and priced into such things as health problems of the ‘ elderly ’ or ‘ mentally ill ’ . |
| 13 | Four networks , reflecting the ideologies of the four major Palestinian parties , Fatah , the DFLP , PFLP and the Communist Party , established committees all over the occupied territories to advance women 's affairs , run kindergartens and literacy classes , assist with income-generating projects , and provide legal advice and support in such matters as employment . |
| 14 | All cheques shall be signed and countersigned by such persons as the Executive Committee shall determine . |
| 15 | But they were as aware as anyone of the variables of timing and electoral fortune which could dictate the succession or lead Tory MPs to ‘ skip a generation ’ and look to such figures as John Major and Chris Patten . |
| 16 | C.6.2 if so required by the Vendor in writing within 60 days following it being notified , retain solicitors chosen by the Vendor to proceed on behalf of the Purchaser in accordance with the instructions of the Vendor and give to such solicitors all and every assistance and information as they may require . |
| 17 | She planted the fruit trees and bushes she had always wanted , made her own bread , and experimented with such things as parsley jelly and mint tea , all to her heart 's content . |
| 18 | He uses already mastered words in new combinations to which he has not hitherto been exposed , and responds to such combinations appropriately as well . |
| 19 | Infectious diseases , particularly the diarrhoeal diseases , are both difficult to prevent and control in such circumstances and they are largely responsible for the high morbidity and mortality rates in many areas of the world . |
| 20 | For detailed discussion of the distinction between an offer and an invitation to treat readers should turn to standard law textbooks and refer to such cases as Fisher v Bell ( 1961 ) and Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists ( Southern ) Ltd ( 1953 ) . |
| 21 | Pupils can sometimes be diffident in expressing their anxieties about their visual condition and may be greatly helped if they can talk to someone knowledgeable and experienced in such matters who is unlikely to be surprised by incidents which can be a worry to some youngsters , such as , for instance , a glass eye lost in the swimming pool or the effect of strong light on a photophobic ( averse to glare ) pupil which makes him sit with closed eyes . |
| 22 | Regulation 19 requires a member who is seller under a contract awaiting performance , to give a tender to LCH ( the buyer ) by the time specified in exchange rules and accompanied by such documents as my be required by those rules . |
| 23 | It is obviously devastating for a parent to watch a child go through misery , but Dorothy Einon points out that children learn how to give and take from such experiences . |
| 24 | These minimum standards now comprise a significant part of the law applying to companies in the member states , and deal with such matters as the obligations of promoters , liabilities of companies , capitalisation , and the presentation of corporate accounts . |
| 25 | They are objective and deal with such cases fairly . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had to ensure the observation of military restrictions on the Germans , and advise on such matters as the stability and honesty of the new German rulers . |
| 28 | Although specific assessments are heavily contextualized and influenced by such things as the time of day and fashion ( Rubinstein 1973 : 249 ) , the evaluations are standardized into discrete types of abnormal situation . |
| 29 | I have heard of such things and met men who have been paid from such purses and eaten from such pots . |
| 30 | Almodovar arrived for the Madrid premiere of TIE ME UP ! in a dustcart , proclaiming his solidarity with the gypsies who daily collect cardboard and wastepaper in such vehicles to earn a living . |