Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a swing had never happened before and would not happen this time . |
| 2 | Such a move had already affected three of the twenty working-class housewives interviewed . |
| 3 | How could such a creature have ever evolved all these highly integrated facets of its being in purely random steps ? |
| 4 | Such a cleric has long recognised that his personal belief is not the same thing as historical evidence , and he has effected some kind of personal reconciliation between the two — a reconciliation which , to a greater or lesser degree , manages to accommodate both . |
| 5 | In their view , the EC must be endowed with the ability to formulate and carry out a common foreign and security policy , particularly vis-a-vis the East and Central European countries ; the lack of such a policy has unfortunately prevented effective EC action in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't like to say that such an idea has never occurred to him , but , if it has , I suspect he is having second thoughts . |
| 7 | Such an approach has also found favour in Australia , notably in the decision of the High Court in Hinch v. |
| 8 | The fact that review may occur relatively rarely for any one agency , the fact that the agency may still be subject to pressures of time and cost which incline it towards a narrow bounded rationality , the relative strength of different interest groups pressing upon the agency , and the competence of the court to assess whether such an authority has improperly excluded a particular policy option , can all combine to limit the effectiveness of this aspect of judicial scrutiny . |
| 9 | Such an explanation has often seemed plausible ( though less so since the abandonment of this cheap food policy upon entry into the EEC ) . |
| 10 | In Ramsden v. Langley ( 1705 ) 2 Vern. 536 a mortgagee had successfully defended an action brought by the mortgagor . |