Example sentences of "such [noun] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only resort in such cases was to the severity of High Court proceedings . |
| 2 | The keep of Rochester Castle , though ruined and with its floors missing , still gives a clear impression of what living in such keeps was like . |
| 3 | Even if it could be said that , because the school would have incurred the basic expense of running the school in any event , such expense was not incurred ‘ in ’ providing the facilities for the taxpayer 's child , on the literal meaning of the words such expense was in any event incurred ‘ in connection with ’ the provision of such facilities . |
| 4 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 5 | Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 6 | Such work was of very real and direct relevance to impoverished areas which suffered chronically high infant and maternal death rates , in large part because of inadequate provision of medical help and uncontaminated milk . |
| 7 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 8 | Eventually these advantages were to tell against England in the war , but in its early phases such disparity was of less account , and the ability of the two kings to mobilize the financial resources of their realms and to command the support of the nobility was to be of greater consequence . |
| 9 | Such generosity was at the expense of the Greek cities of the coast , and helps to explain why they revolted from Persia again in 479 ( Hdt. ix.105 , treating their adhesion to the new Delian League as a second ‘ Ionian Revolt ’ ) , as before in the Ionian Revolt of 499 . |
| 10 | One such job was at a museum . |
| 11 | Such confidence was to be their undoing , and that of the Elves . |
| 12 | No such pomposity was to be found in the British Caribbean islands . |
| 13 | He thought that the answer to such questions was of little consequence for what he wanted to say . |
| 14 | Such speculation was of a ‘ one-way ’ nature in terms of risk ; the holder of these ( sterling ) balances would make a capital gain if the currency was devalued but would suffer no losses if the exchange rate remained unchanged . |
| 15 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 16 | One such occasion was on an outing with Steve to the Apollo Theatre in London 's Shaftesbury Avenue to see Peter O'Toole in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , there is a question mark about how widespread such knowledge was among the working classes . |
| 18 | I wish to add that , even if it had been suggested that the Secretary of State had erred in law in this respect in the present case ( and no such suggestion was made ) , any such submission would have had to be founded upon evidence of the relevant provisions of Swedish law , and no such evidence was before the Divisional Court in the present case . |
| 19 | For the doves , Woodcock pointed out that such behaviour was by no means exclusive to the Pakistanis . |
| 20 | Such instruction was to be replaced by " civics " courses . |
| 21 | One such collection was in the hands of Galileo 's Paduan friend , G. V. Pinelli . |
| 22 | One such offer was from a theme park in Dogpatch , Arkansas , which is devoted to cast-off metal monuments . |
| 23 | Facial gesture and general demeanour could easily signal the force with which the utterance of such nouns was to be taken . |
| 24 | The relevant date for calculating your pay is normally the date on which your job would have terminated had proper notice been given under the Consolidation Act , whether or not such notice was in fact given . |
| 25 | One such argument was in response to a question posed by Margaret Bourke-White , just prior to his assassination , as to how he would meet the atom bomb with non-violence . |
| 26 | Cynics might hastily conclude that the canons of " good committee practice " are neither sufficient nor necessary conditions for meaningful INSET to take place , but a better interpretation in our view is that the potential for such developments was to some extent wasted precisely because the structure , purpose and status of the panel were so confused . |
| 27 | A particular problem which frequently arises is a claim by an employee that even if he must have realised , in accordance with the principle laid down in the Printers and Finishers case , that he was under a duty to maintain a confidence , such duty was in fact overridden by the way in which his employer acted towards the information ie that the employer is estopped from now relying on confidence . |
| 28 | One local housing authority stated that there was ‘ a need for greater provision of special needs accommodation for the disabled and handicapped ’ yet there was no indication as to how such accommodation was to be provided . |
| 29 | If such application was to be made to the court I feel that further references to your business acumen would have to be supplied beforehand . |
| 30 | The last time the Community was in such straits was in 1975 , when output fell 1% . |