Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not as readers see this as a fault , since it made for such richness of scene and mood , though Marryat seems to have felt it so . |
| 2 | My history teacher , who was a liberal , joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue . |
| 3 | He had a number of set speeches which he frequently rehearsed for such occasions . |
| 4 | Inhabitants of the worst-hit tower blocks fled with such haste that their washing is still hanging out . |
| 5 | Certain colonial powers ( notably Britain ) entered into such agreements with their former colonies which were regarded as forming a ‘ complete assignment of all treaties which , upon construction , were susceptible of devolution , … |
| 6 | But during the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic they occurred in such profusion in inshore sediments that they are frequently important components of the rocks in which they are found . |
| 7 | Some of these early nautiloids occurred in such abundance that they are conspicuous enough to form an appreciable part of limestone formations — the ‘ Orthoceras Limestone ’ ( Ordovician ) is one of these , widely distributed through Scandinavia . |
| 8 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 9 | Fourteen per cent of the sample of deaths occurred in such homes ; this compares with a much lower proportion , 5 per cent in 1969 ( Cartwright et al . , |
| 10 | People from the stations we visited in such areas , or whom we encountered upon their being transferred to Easton , felt policing there was not typical and that we were obtaining an unrealistic view . |
| 11 | As I walked by , someone 's car stuck there and would not move , and a neighbouring farmer , irritably habituated to such incident , hauled it to the road with his tractor . |
| 12 | Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space . |
| 13 | However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised . |
| 14 | Athelstan cursed in some of the language Cranston used on such occasions . |
| 15 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |
| 16 | There were , of course , a good number of poets who moved beyond such limitations . |
| 17 | Moreover , short of methods of surveillance which are also not ‘ consistent with liberty and justice ’ it may be impossible to obtain evidence on what transpired at such meetings . |
| 18 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 19 | One read of such crimes in deprived areas of inner cities , but … |
| 20 | Clearly results must improve quickly if Darlington are to preserve the status they attained with such distinction under the leadership of former manager Brian Little . |
| 21 | I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ . |
| 22 | He painted with such intensity that the painting fell on his head as he leant forward to see me better . |
| 23 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 24 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 25 | His business today includes course architecture and not , it seems , teaching the game he played with such flair . |
| 26 | She played with such warmth . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I was a person who believed in such things … ’ |
| 28 | Nearly everybody suffered in such circumstances — not just the ruler . |
| 29 | For some , the war was brought much nearer home when the French ( with their Castilian allies ) began once again to attack and plunder towns and villages on the south coast of England , the legitimate activities of English fishermen being among those which suffered from such raids . |
| 30 | Surely there could n't be other women who delighted in such anguish . |