Example sentences of "such [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pedigrees include such sires as Hanoverhill Starbuck , Astro Jet , Linmack , Swd Valian , Elevation , Counsellor and many other top performance bulls . ’ |
| 2 | It is assumed , in addition , that all significant propositions , irrespective of their truth or falsity , must in principle be explicable in terms of propositions about such entities as a condition of their significance . |
| 3 | Such entities as STOCK , SALES-ORDER and CUSTOMER are appropriate because they are quantifiable , whereas ‘ stock control ’ , ‘ order processing ’ and ‘ credit control ’ are not appropriate because they are functions : what the organisation does , and not things of interest which participate in functions . |
| 4 | There may have been other churches of lower status on such estates as well . |
| 5 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 6 | For such reasons as workforce morale or diplomacy towards the existing management owners may be unable to put a ‘ for sale ’ sign on the company . |
| 7 | That lets it use software that standardises such products as deposits and instalment loans . |
| 8 | Dialectical reason encounters such products as undecidables : |
| 9 | For example , value added tax , ( VAT ) , is payable on most categories of goods , and duties are also payable on such products as petrol , tobacco and alcohol . |
| 10 | These fluctuations can have a cumulative effect , particularly on the demand for such products as steel , bricks , heavy goods vehicles and machine tools . |
| 11 | This gave them the chance to sign against experiments with animals in the development of such products as perfumes . |
| 12 | The second target is to achieve a set increase in personal deposit balances on such products as current accounts , TESSAs and 90-day accounts . |
| 13 | The recording is interspersed with music and is narrated in a relaxed and upbeat style that is intended to help staff deal with customers queries on such products as pitahayas and paw-paws . |
| 14 | For a major chemicals company aiming to be an all-rounder , the sheer size of a petrochemicals operation and the cash it can generate is needed to complement the higher-value but far lower-tonnage manufacture of such products as pharmaceuticals . |
| 15 | The number of players varies ( around 35 at the last count ) , and the strategic implications of such rules as may exist have not been fully worked out . |
| 16 | Similar treatment can be found in works on great monuments and schemes , perhaps especially in the Italian Renaissance , when such projects as the Sistine Chapel or Tintoretto 's Scuola di San Rocco achieved a personal artistic unity of the highest standard . |
| 17 | The list was so long because he counted every programme over £1m — the previous definition was over £5m — and included such projects as a car park at Medway Hospital in Kent . |
| 18 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 19 | The infusion of European cash will help Britain raise expenditure on such projects as the Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire , for which 53 per cent of the funding will now come from Brussels . |
| 20 | Staff members have acted in an advisory capacity on such projects as sites for dams , reservoirs , power stations , underground storage , major sewage schemes , new towns and buildings of all kinds , quarries , tunnels and routes for major roads and pipe lines . |
| 21 | SMP 's ‘ success ’ relative to such projects as MME must be understood , at least partially , in terms of the differential availability of such resources as status , academic legitimacy and finance , and not merely in terms of such factors as ‘ flair ’ , something SMP members themselves seem to have well understood . [ … ] |
| 22 | Children under supervision could be directed to such projects as appeared appropriate to their needs although the projects would not be exclusively for young offenders . |
| 23 | The Department has been deeply involved in the detailed examination of such projects as the programmes for the construction of new sleeper cars , electrical multiple units , and HST [ High Speed Train ] sets … |
| 24 | He notes , for instance , that linguists have attempted to apply some of the terminology of natural science inappropriately to language , often through such metaphors as ‘ cohesion ’ , ‘ balance ’ etc. , which fix and reify what is in fact a more flexible and dynamic phenomenon . |
| 25 | But for such degenerates as Cade , or these two , Shakespeare can also deprive his prose of rhythm , make it flaccid , shapeless , a difficult mouthful to get out : Caliban 's verse stands out with the greater force , cured as he now is of his delusions : But — so at least the juxtaposition suggests — that is in part the judgement that verse can make over prose . |
| 26 | One deals with ‘ lack of care ’ in that a failure to fence a pond resulted in a verdict of such negligence as to justify a verdict of manslaughter . |
| 27 | Such inducements as salary , status and job interest , could be used to ensure that staff might enjoy their new roles . |
| 28 | One of these tunnels , which seemed awesomely long , black and terrifying , was , with gumption and at such times as the brook was not in full spate , explorable . |
| 29 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 30 | It was strange , but he imagined that at such times as this , when there was only himself and his mother in the house , the building had left its base and was afloat in the air . |