Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again , schooled by the incorrect idea that it is the carbohydrate foods which are the most fattening , many people will very much underestimate the number of calories in the butter-based sauce on their slice of fish , which looks like such an innocent dish . |
| 2 | There 's no better inspiration for shrugging off slothfulness than Glen Shiel , which rewards with such a high score of tops and something worthwhile to brag about to those who spent Saturday and Sunday vacuuming the car with a cordless hoover . |
| 3 | Any model of the mind which allows for such a possibility is not a simple one , and hints at , if it does not actually affirm , the existence of the unconscious . |
| 4 | The idea of non-meanings as identical subjects of predication while implying the possibility of a framework within which references to such items can be contextually checked for truth , is not explicable in terms of any particular criteria of re-identification . |
| 5 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 6 | There is frequently a tacit assumption that the calibre of individuals on the board is the guarantee of quality in spite of the literature on team decision-making which cautions against such a sanguine view . |
| 7 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 8 | So , argues Parkin , this apparent consensus is , in fact , an expression of the particular system of dominant values which operates in such societies . |
| 9 | There is the possibility of a complaint being upheld by the Press Council , which functions in such cases as a poor person 's libel court . |
| 10 | describing , and where appropriate comparing , the range and quality of argumentative talk which arises through such activities ; |
| 11 | Institutional tension which arises in such situations can be a positive element for change . |
| 12 | Well it 's a verb phrase so erm they just , all that means is if you take a subject expression and well , what goes , what goes after such expression is a verb phrase , that my opinion not just you know . |
| 13 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 14 | Whatever lies behind such a startling transformation in Quebecois mores could hardly fail to create a disoriented generation hungry for new certitudes to replace the collapsing old ones . |
| 15 | According to the conventional thinking , what matters in such a case is the allocation of property rights . |