Example sentences of "[prep] [be] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last season , United lost the title after being such odds-on favourites in March that bookmakers refused to take any more bets . |
| 2 | Basically , like but she was must of been such and such champion , I mean I did n't appreciate probably how good she was , sort of thing because I 'm not in their show circuit but probably she was the you know , one of the top |
| 3 | She felt ashamed of being such a failure . |
| 4 | What was the use , Colonel Richardson asked himself , what was the use of being such a splendid rector 's wife all these years , and then chucking the whole lot out of the window , for a pig-headed whim ? |
| 5 | Too happy to feel ashamed of being such a poor guest , too relaxed to worry about anything at all , she found her shoes and went downstairs to the terrace . |
| 6 | But such behaviour is not obviously threatening ( although it is almost certainly disorderly ) , and it may be doubted whether a conviction of the section 4 offence is proper unless the conduct complained of is such that it is likely to lead to further violence . |
| 7 | At the same price as your traditional cab and twice as speedy , riding pillion has never looked like being such a good bet . |
| 8 | But shortly afterwards , er , I was in confrontation with the chairman the basis of my contract with was such that it was not to his liking and I was not prepared to give way in the matter and was dismissed within six months of the acquisition of by . |
| 9 | Yes , er I I asked P C if his relationship er with was such that he would have any influence er with regard to erm getting him to er surrender er . |
| 10 | Lean drew strength from being such a cerebral filmmaker , while Mackendrick had the advantage of being a ( Scottish ) outsider in the very English setting of Ealing studios . |
| 11 | ‘ God in his mercy , lend her grace , ’ she muttered , thinking of Anna , her Anna , who had grown from being such a dull child into a truly engaging woman , a woman so richly deserving of being lent a little of God 's grace . |
| 12 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
| 13 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 14 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 15 | It 's so sad because she used to be such a lively and outgoing person . |
| 16 | Ooh , they are going to be such a treat ! |
| 17 | There used to be such wonderful blackberries ! |
| 18 | When you choose your meeting room , the size has to be such that there always appears to be more interest in the event than the organisers anticipated . |
| 19 | The date of the change was 1494 , the year of Charles VIII 's Italian campaign , beginning the destructive French , and therefore Spanish , involvement in Italy which was to be such a dominant theme in European politics and war in the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | But it was n't like him to be such a booby . |
| 21 | In the key marginal seat of Stretchford North , for instance , where John Grudge , nephew of the veteran retiring member Arthur Grudge , is standing for Labour against the Conservative Mike Jelkes ( formerly known as the Hon M. S. B. St J. St X. Haggard-Jelkes ) and the Liberal Democrat Frank Pale-Jones , a former official of the British Boring Board of Control , there is said to be such a degree of apathy that any one of the 26 ‘ fringe ’ candidates may easily win . |
| 22 | WHO would have thought that those Spandau Ballet boys would have turned out to be such fine thespians ? |
| 23 | Comments which reflect their own opinions , however , will frequently appear to be such obvious common sense that their rightful place is clearly in the Neutral column , not the Favourable To Us one . |
| 24 | For someone who worked in what she believed to be such a hard-nosed profession he retained a sensitive streak . |
| 25 | However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills . |
| 26 | Hall 's extension to 20th March was considered by The Saturday Review to be such a ‘ pitiful and illusory concession ’ as to make it hardly worthwhile , while the Architectural Association , on 5th November , 1856 , put in a strong plea to Hall for a further extension of time . |
| 27 | The local gentry were prevailed upon to be such things as president , and vice president ; membership fees for ‘ farmers and tradesmen ’ were 3 shillings , for ‘ labourers ’ 2 shillings , and for youths under 16 years one shilling . |
| 28 | For example , that ‘ the shortest distance between two points is a straight line ’ , would appear to be such a truth without the need of proof . |
| 29 | Thus some ‘ truth ’ can be created , and rank equal in human esteem with truth which can be observed to be such , or proved in some other way . |
| 30 | The creation of truth has , from time to time been manifest in religious thinking , but it has been either not recognised as such , or deliberately not admitted to be such . |