Example sentences of "such [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , such rules give us additional information about the structure of the complex . |
| 2 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 3 | Since this is , in effect , as much an oblique comment on the present as a literal interpretation of the past , what such accounts tell us about the quality of village life in the past must be handled with considerable scepticism . |
| 4 | Such enthusiasm makes them appear eccentric compared to policemen and women on the sections . |
| 5 | The focus of his concerns seem to have lain close to tradition , and although what he wrote may be called natural history and social history , such definitions trammel him . |
| 6 | Such honesty brought him more trouble than hypocrisy would have done — with Louise Colet , for instance . |
| 7 | I had such difficulty persuading him to take Brückner 's story seriously . |
| 8 | A filename is the name given to such text to identify it to you and to Word . |
| 9 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 10 | Important as was the consciousness of self-government , the fueros would not have been defended with such obstinacy had they not conferred substantial economic advantages , designed originally to favour poor frontier provinces . |
| 11 | But do n't let such talk put you off . |
| 12 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 13 | Nevertheless there was one event of this year which seemed to lift such worries front him , and to help cure all his infirmities except that of age . |
| 14 | One such benefactor called me on that recent morning when the old fellow with the hooked nose drifted into his final coma . |
| 15 | He had such pleasure reading them and was delighted when you mentioned his love of Quoits ( LINK September ‘ 90 Issue ) . |
| 16 | Such data made it clear that ( i ) it was realistic and profitable to study individual species , even within a complex community and ( ii ) that the dynamics of the populations appeared to be largely independent of year-to-year fluctuations in climate . |
| 17 | ‘ The Bank may — ( a ) by notice in writing served on an authorised institution require it to produce , within such time and at such place as may be specified in the notice , such document or documents of such description as may be so specified ; ( b ) authorise an officer , servant or agent of the Bank , on producing evidence of his authority , to require any such institution to provide him forthwith with such information , or to produce to him forthwith such documents , as he may specify , being such information or documents as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under this Act . |
| 18 | Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm . |
| 19 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 20 | Then your reward must be magnificent indeed , for you to run such risks to gain it . |
| 21 | The consequence and outcome of such work enable us to develop relationships of peace with one another . |
| 22 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 23 | Such backup gives me confidence with producing the final artwork that the factual content is sound . |
| 24 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 25 | Working alongside such eroticism made them feel awkward . |
| 26 | If such shortcomings irritate you seriously , you should steer clear of small Mediterranean resorts of the type we offer ; become a tourist , not a traveller . |
| 27 | Such meteorites give us few clues as to the prevalence of life on other worlds ; however , members of a different class of meteorites — the carbonaceous chondritescontain organic chemicals , leading us to believe that the building blocks of life must be fairly commonplace . |
| 28 | Believers very often cease to believe because such suffering makes them no longer able to accept the goodness of God . |
| 29 | Cognitive theories ' defensiveness about such ambiguity makes them especially liable to stress their scientific , and particularly their biological , significance . |
| 30 | But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity . |