Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you tuck into your corn flakes , with all those added vitamins , spare a thought for those who lived before such luxuries were dreamed of . |
| 2 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 3 | There were , of course , a good number of poets who moved beyond such limitations . |
| 4 | ‘ If I was a person who believed in such things … ’ |
| 5 | A telephone call to London found an agent who specialised in such transactions , and an appointment was made . |
| 6 | Surely there could n't be other women who delighted in such anguish . |
| 7 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 8 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 9 | Such exclusivity was viewed with horror by mainstream credal Calvinists such as Whitgift , who saw in such elitism the seeds of a subversive and divisive separatism which might threaten the very existence of a national church . |
| 10 | And yet it was persons who died in such numbers , without ever necessarily subscribing to the consequences of their own actions . |