Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend consider allowing working women in such circumstances a greater disregard ? |
| 2 | The technological breakthrough allowing primitive versions of such chips to be made came in the 1960s , and it was in 1969 that M. E. Hoff at the Intel Corp. in California developed the idea of a computer on a chip . |
| 3 | He had a thick crop of wiry hair the colour of good toffee , and heavy eyelashes many shades darker , as lavish as on a Jersey cow , fringing golden-brown eyes of such steady and limpid sincerity that she felt certain he could not possibly be just what he seemed . |
| 4 | The Warnock Committee , after expressing liberal views regarding such practices as egg donation and in vitro fertilization , turned to truly Draconian measures in their effort to stamp out surrogacy . |
| 5 | Opinion polls conducted in the capital during the 1990 campaign suggested that Labour might receive as much as 50% of the vote overall , with surveys in individual boroughs presaging Labour gains in such key areas as Barnet , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 6 | Lorenz ( 1950 , 1970 ) and Tinbergen ( 1951 ) have constructed influential models describing possible relations between such innate motor systems and the environment . |
| 7 | Conversely , persons occupying peripheral positions in such a group were more exposed to external standardizing pressures ( L. Milroy 1980 ; Milroy and Milroy 1985b ) . |
| 8 | The document , and the legislation that derived from it , pointed to a positively discriminatory approach : with both central and local government supplementing existing programmes in such a way as to strengthen local economies , as well as the physical and social environment . |
| 9 | Lest it be thought I am attributing vile motives to such people , it is noticeable that when non-card communions are held , attendance is considerably diminished . |
| 10 | Book debts arising from these credit sales were to be assigned in blocks , containing substantial numbers of such debts to the plaintiffs in return for a lump sum , calculated so as to provide a discounting charge to the plaintiffs . |
| 11 | In the view of language taken here , therefore , potential meaning is seen as an instrument for representing or conceptualizing particular experiences in such a way as to make them sayable . |
| 12 | In the words of The Corporate Report ( ASSC 1975 , p. 28 ) : ‘ The fundamental objective … is to communicate economic measurements of and information about the resources and performance of the reporting entity useful to those having reasonable rights to such information . ’ |
| 13 | In Belfast , this problem was in practice rather severe since most refusals came from higher-status households , so that a large amount of time and effort was expended in recording small numbers of such speakers . |
| 14 | He was seeing small things with such clarity now . |
| 15 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 16 | In taking new-fangled ideas to such excess , of course , WPP was by no means alone . |
| 17 | This discouraged companies from issuing fixed-rate securities to such an extent that , over the years 1973 – 1980 , redemptions exceeded gross issues and net issues were negative . |
| 18 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 19 | The book is unlikely to be very valuable in itself , for owners are understandably chary of submitting precious items to such manoeuvres as splaying and clamping . |
| 20 | Many students find difficulty in preparing adequate answers to such questions , as is apparent from examiners ' comments . |
| 21 | Dr Alexandra Macara , chairperson of the British Medical Association 's ethics committee stressed the difficulties for the parents in making rational decisions at such a time . |
| 22 | A subsidiary aim of the project is to make available for discussion the methodology of making sociological inferences from such texts . |
| 23 | Somerset 's weavers complained in 1726 of their masters " paying their wages in goods , and setting extravagant prices on such goods " . |
| 24 | The most striking results have been achieved precisely by shedding conventional settings and mounting fine stones in such a way as to display their inherent qualities with the minimum of encroachment . |
| 25 | The burning of hospital waste is certainly relevant in my area because , for years St. George 's hospital , Tooting has been burning enormous quantities of such waste — often for days on end . |