Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 2 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 3 | For too long have many eminent members of the Institute been shy about such debate , hiding behind the feeble argument that it must respect the conflicting views of different modes of transport . |
| 4 | It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime . |
| 5 | ‘ Never has an art form been subject to such control , ’ argued Pare Lorentz in 1930 as he pointed out how the whole industry was ‘ ruled by fear ’ and was ‘ the victim of moral racketeering ’ . |
| 6 | Having been involved in such proceedings since the Twenties he was now in fact finding them " a bit tedious " , and " Mr Eliot 's list " was invented for a section of the agenda so that he did not have to attend the entire meeting . |
| 7 | Perhaps , in your own country , state enterprises or private corporations have been involved in such loan procedures with international banks . |
| 8 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 9 | In general , biologists have been distrustful of such leaps of the imagination , although later geneticists have followed Mendel 's example : a recent case is the postulation by Jacob and Monod of ‘ repressors ’ , described on p. 65 . |
| 10 | Human interference has often been responsible for such introductions . |
| 11 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 12 | The British have not been alone in such teaching . |
| 13 | Since no legislation has been passed to reduce socio-economic inequalities in industrial discipline and since trade union activity has not been concerned with such issues either , it is almost certain that little change has taken place in the years since this study . |
| 14 | The well-born and the well-off have been apt at such times to turn , for diversion and instruction , to foreigners and to members of the working class . |
| 15 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |