Example sentences of "[conj] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be by way of theory , or on more matter-of-fact lines about technique or such questions as composition . |
| 2 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 3 | ‘ Those who desire to win the favour of princes generally endeavour to do so by offering them those things which they themselves prize most , or such as they observe the prince to delight in most . ’ |
| 4 | After all , you have managed to survive for years without suffering from severe vitamin deficiency — scurvy , rickets , or such things . |
| 5 | By its Contract with you ILG Travel Limited does not enter into an Agreement for carriage by air but only undertakes to reserve on your behalf accommodation on board an aircraft operated by one or other of the airlines mentioned in this brochure or such other airline as may be substituted . |
| 6 | I never dreamt it would be such a joyful experience — or such a tiring one . |
| 7 | The argument that the use of such formulae , or such a style , is ‘ mere convention ’ is no argument . |
| 8 | The intruder alarm installed at your Home must be kept in proper working order under a continuing maintenance contract with the installing Company or such other Company as is agreed in writing by us . |
| 9 | Your intruder alarm ( or such parts of your intruder alarm as may be agreed in writing by us ) must be set before you your family or domestic employees retire for the night . |
| 10 | The plans would become the absolute copyright of the Government , to choose from the several plans the whole or such parts as might be found desirable ; but the architects would not have the slightest claim to be employed in the execution of the works . |
| 11 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 12 | To ask questions to which people can not give answers is a waste of time for everyone — but one does , from time to time , come across schedules which include questions which require such feats of memory or such difficult calculations that no reasonable person can be expected to give an answer . |
| 13 | One description of the typical witch declares as highly suspect ‘ women which be commonly old , lame , blear-eied , pale , fowle and full of wrinkles ; poore , sullen , superstitious , and papists ; or such as knowe no religion : in whose drousie minds the divell doth goten a fine seat ’ . |
| 14 | On 11 May 1846 W.M. Wilkinson , their lawyer , wrote to the Home Office to ask what was happening : ‘ The Governors of the Veterinary College at Camden Town are anxious that the Charter for which they have petitioned Her Majesty or such modification thereof as you may approve should be granted without further delay , as great inconvenience and loss to the Institution is arising from the want of such Charter . |
| 15 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |
| 16 | Links with Hull and its river industries brought prosperous merchants to live in their Manors and Halls , some of which still exist as residences , or such as Willerby Old Manor , now converted into flats . |
| 17 | There are many reasons for this ; not only are leather corals very attractive , but they are also relatively hardy , much more so than most other coral types , such as stony corals , gorgonians or such beautiful soft corals as cauliflower corals ( Dendronephtya spp ) . |
| 18 | My purpose was to see if I could write a novel with only two characters , preserving the unities of time , place and action ( it all happens in one day in John 's London flat ) , without any cheating through long flashbacks or such devices . |
| 19 | The major social base of European racist movements such as the French National Front appears to be in the native working class , the major activists or such movements appear to be working-class young men — skinheads and the like — and a long era of full or virtually guaranteed employment ended , in western Europe during the 1970s , in central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s . |
| 20 | Where the terms of a settlement are so framed that a clearly defined person can benefit ( for example if the class of beneficiaries includes ‘ any spouse of the settlor ’ or ‘ spouse of the settlor 's children' ) or such persons could be added to the class of beneficiaries , then the settlor will be treated as having an ‘ interest ’ in the trust . |
| 21 | Bevis of Southampton or such trumpery . |
| 22 | The rest of all the parts of his body are taken away by Gentlemen neare dwellers , or such as take delight in rare Antiquities . |
| 23 | In addition , this 1678 Act ‘ for lessening the importation of Linnen from beyond the Seas , and the encouragement of the Woollen and Paper Manufacturers of the Kingdome ’ further instructed that the curate of every parish keep a register , provided at the expense of the parish , into which had to be entered all burials together with the affidavits taken by the justice of the peace , mayor , ‘ or such like chief officer ’ in the parish or , ‘ if there be no officer , then by any curate within the county where the corpse was buried ( except him in whose parish the corpse was buried ) , who must administer the oath , and set his hand gratis ’ . |
| 24 | The Carrier shall have a general lien against the owner of the goods for any monies whatever due from the Trader or such other owner to the Carrier . |
| 25 | The main failings of the nation lay within its own boundaries , not in the outside world or such phenomena as bourgeois liberalism' , which the authors did not view in the same threatening light as did the more conservative party members . |
| 26 | A simile is introduced by a word such as like , as or such . |
| 27 | Applications are invited for the chair of Politics , tenable from 1 September 1990 or such other date as may be arranged . |
| 28 | Certain senior officers and all officers paid more than £19,500 per annum ( or such higher amount as regulations may determine ) are now classified as holding ‘ politically restricted posts ’ and are disqualified from becoming a member of any local authority ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : clauses 1 and 2 ) . |
| 29 | God just decides that such and such is correct or such and such is wrong . |
| 30 | The justices in the first place wrongly , on the advice of their clerk , declined to consider witness statements or such psychiatric report as were available . |