Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 2 | This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction . |
| 3 | While societies do themselves construct devices for specialising and separating out levels of meaning , this does not mean that they ever achieve in reality the claims that they make about such discourse . |
| 4 | One such was an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman , one of the body of men employed to enforce local traffic and marketing regulations , rules about the disposal of garbage — all those minor matters which make for such amenity as the growing towns manage to achieve . |
| 5 | The usual recreations to be found tacked onto entries make for such tedious reading : walking , Wagner and golf . |
| 6 | Payment is at the discretion of your Manager who will tell you whether or not you qualify for such a payment . |
| 7 | Even so , the judges are hampered by the thought that they must not run counter to political trends , for example by implying a right to full compensation for the appropriation of property when a socialist legislature did not in terms provide for such compensation . |
| 8 | Forget about such excesses . |
| 9 | If sweatshop bosses are to be competitive they must pay their workers low wages for long hours , cut corners on health and safety and forget about such niceties as job protection . |
| 10 | A church in which they predominated , would , she had to admit , have little place for such as she . |
| 11 | A two-game tour Hong Kong in January , including one international , ended with the embarrassed hosts wondering how the Taiwanese had learned to roll mauls and ruck with such proficiency and ferocity . |
| 12 | The tournament in the early twelfth century was a mock battle little different from the real thing : the highly organized jousting which we usually associate with such an event was only beginning to develop . |
| 13 | What in the world could a single female want with such a sum ? ’ |
| 14 | It is not the certificate as such that we wish to include but the underlying deposit , which is a time deposit just like all other time deposits that appear in such definitions . |
| 15 | Michelin road-maps mark genuinely arduous or dangerous stretches of road with a broken red line , and though the roadways themselves quite often turn out to be less awkward than you expect from such warnings , less awkward does not mean altogether easy . |
| 16 | The main point to make , however , is that few teachers consciously build in such skills when planning resource-based exercises , and regrettably few teachers could either articulate the nine simple points above or even demonstrate very convincingly their own abilities in a library setting . |
| 17 | By examining the relationship between the rate of return on capital invested in various industries and barriers to entry and exit from such industries , it is possible to test the hypothesis that monopoly power results in excessive profits . |
| 18 | ‘ A place in such an establishment ? ’ |
| 19 | Both sensory and contextual information interact in such a way that there is a trade-off between them ; the more contextual information input to a logogen from its top-down sources , the less sensory information is needed to bring the logogen above threshold for activation . |
| 20 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 21 | Languages therefore differ widely in the way they are equipped to handle various notions and express various aspects of experience , possibly because they differ in the degree of importance or relevance that they attach to such aspects of experience . |
| 22 | In agreeing , Lord Fraser told Walker : ‘ I ca n't overstate the value I attach to such assistance and support . ’ |
| 23 | I never once heard her even hint at such a view . |
| 24 | What you say at such a time is also important . |
| 25 | But as I think people always say at such a time as this , it is n't the way you think it is . ’ |
| 26 | The trees grow at such a rate here that you can hardly even see the sea . ’ |
| 27 | The recovery is slow and patchy , but the policy is sound — Labour Members who laugh and snigger at such remarks ought to ask themselves why it is that Britain of all the countries in Europe has the most inward investment from overseas investors . |
| 28 | Denied political and civil space in most Arab society by undemocratic regimes of various kinds , many people make of such an image a confused by powerful instrument of criticism of their own rulers , never mind the powers which they associate with colonial history and contemporary world dominance . |
| 29 | Even Berliner and Brimson ( 1988 , p. 186 ) in their valuable report on the CAM-I study , tend towards such confusion when they say companies have focused on short-term investment benefits using quantitative financial information such as ROI and NPV ! |
| 30 | Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’ |