Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A telephone call to London found an agent who specialised in such transactions , and an appointment was made . |
| 32 | However , the statistical picture remains somewhat unclear for two main reasons : the data have not always been analysed with sufficient attention to all the possible factors implicated in such over-representation ; there are insufficient provincial data to show how general are the London results . |
| 33 | The raw material came from such sources as Renaissance sketchbooks , engravings and travel guides and was originally limited to Antique works of art known between 1400 and the conquest of Rome by Charles V in 1527 . |
| 34 | For instance , during the hurried preparations for the second Ulster general strike of May 1977 , the loudest protests within the Belfast urban paramilitary organisations came from such persons . |
| 35 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 36 | All cheques shall be signed and countersigned by such persons as the Executive Committee shall determine . |
| 37 | The in-between bits — what some call life — seemed by such standards to be so much waste of time , which they could not be done with fast enough . |
| 38 | It provided that the cost of a benefit consisting of the provision of any service or facility which was also provided to the public ( i.e. , in-house benefits ) should be the price which the public paid for such facility or service . |
| 39 | I do n't think she approved of such stunts , whether or not they made good television . |
| 40 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 41 | King Philip travelled south in an attempt to make peace but faced with such stubbornness on both sides he was forced to return with nothing accomplished . |
| 42 | He saw mountains on the Moon ( very anti-Aristotle this ) , then satellites orbiting Jupiter , which he mapped with such accuracy that his orbital times are hardly different from those calculated today . |
| 43 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 44 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 45 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |
| 46 | His twelve years of study and the roll call of the masters of Paris of his day — masters of grammar , logic and theology , professors from England and France and further afield — bear witness to the serious nature of the academic work in which he joined with such enthusiasm . |
| 47 | Two important things happened in such systems . |
| 48 | Because the company frowned upon such spare-time enterprise , the trio kept their identities secret … |
| 49 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 50 | Imaged in such terms , the sodomite indeed became the supreme instance of the demonized other . |
| 51 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 52 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 53 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 54 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
| 55 | ‘ Forgive me , my darling , ’ he requested with such charm that she was ready to lie down and die for him . |
| 56 | … They have inherited … both the ‘ African personality ’ that President Nkrumah sought with such labour , and the sophistication of the ‘ Black Europeans ’ . ’ |
| 57 | Gypsy women were chaste before wedlock and Chilcott might have called off the arrangement if he heard of such liberties being taken . |
| 58 | I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things |
| 59 | … and Lexandro heard of such incidents of the campaign as the Battle of the Glass Bell Temple , and of the Sixty Suicide Skaters who had swooped on Brothers of the Fourth Company clutching melta-bombs , and how the Fifth and Seventh and Eighth Companies had found themselves confronted , to their astonishment , by Titans … |
| 60 | Never in all his experience , wrote Taylor , had he seen or heard of such covenants in a mining lease . |