Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for such " in BNC.
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| 1 | A church in which they predominated , would , she had to admit , have little place for such as she . |
| 2 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 3 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 4 | Thomas Telford is better known for such engineering feats as the Menai Suspension Bridge or the Caledonian Canal , or roads and bridges throughout the Highlands . |
| 5 | Neither of these events in themselves ( or even together ) seems significant enough to account for such a drastic change in policy direction . |
| 6 | At the very least , a manufacturer should be constantly watching for such developments in the industry which might shift the threshold of the expectation of safety . |
| 7 | Never , perhaps , have I so lived for such a long time together . |
| 8 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 9 | Also , SHe did n't think Parmedes ' handiwork was exactly designed for such a pummelling . |
| 10 | In theory , you can convert a road shoe to cross-country shoe or vice versa , but as midsoles and uppers are not designed for such changes , it would not always to wise to try to . |
| 11 | ‘ Hurry , Wolfprince , for my work does not wait for such as you , ’ he said in his sibilant whisper , but now Nuadu detected a lick of pleasure in the voice . |
| 12 | Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park . |
| 13 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |
| 14 | Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status . |
| 15 | But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity . |
| 16 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 17 | The opportunities of individual patronage may have been reduced , but few major writers from the time of Gay and Swift to that of George Crabbe did not look for such patronage or shape some composition toward the expectations of a patron . |
| 18 | The consent of the seller is not needed for such an assignment . |
| 19 | The ‘ pruning saw ’ normally sold for such work has teeth on two edges and , used in tight positions where it is invariably needed , great care and patience is essential to avoid the back edge causing damage to stems and growth that should not be harmed . |
| 20 | as if anyone any longer cared for such constitutional niceties . |
| 21 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 22 | She retired quickly after her friend into the kitchen , overcome by a sense of invaded privacy ; a garden , to her , was not meant for such intimacies . |
| 23 | Even she had not bargained for such an insult as this ! |
| 24 | Living persons are not fitted for such transmission , and even the dead must be guaranteed by their " solid achievement " ( political , literary , military , or other ) . |
| 25 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 26 | Whilst some small provision is still made for such study , the College 's aim today is ‘ to train young musicians for careers as performers and teachers of music ’ ( Gowrie : Review of the London Music Conservatories , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Always look for such omissions and state how your answer will be affected by the presence or absence of the fact in question . |
| 28 | In the middle of November the Eliots travelled to America , where he made five public appearances in order to pay for their forthcoming holiday in Barbados after Christmas — as long as he could " hobble up a stage " , he could still pay for such trips . |
| 29 | The third , and preferred , method is to build an isolation unit , specially constructed for such experiments . |
| 30 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |