Example sentences of "[verb] such an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us consider such an ethnographer as an invisible witness to a particular speech event . |
| 2 | Never , never would he consider such an event so insupportable as to … ’ |
| 3 | Mildred leapt to the floor and sat there for a moment , reflecting how nice it was to be able to jump such an amazing distance without getting hurt . |
| 4 | It must have been a daunting task to know how to encompass and animate such an extensive and familiar subject , but the Royal College of Art , which was commissioned to organise and design the event , enlisted that most reliable of cultural populists , John Julius Norwich , to curate , and he has proved a model of Dimblebyan dependability , as well as introducing the commendably brief but informative and well laid-out catalogue . |
| 5 | By adopting such an approach , the deterrent purposes of Rule 10b-5 are still capable of being achieved . |
| 6 | The proposal is to investigate the potential advantages of applying modular design concepts to pump and valve design ; to evaluate commercial advantages to be gained in international markets by adopting such an approach and to introduce the indicated changes of design philosophy and practice to the British pump and valve industries . |
| 7 | Senior Tories believe the MP for Carshalton and Wallington must have had a very pressing reason to leave after staging such an unexpected comeback . |
| 8 | Investigators , astounded that the four could survive such an ordeal in the southern hemisphere winter , are puzzled by a number of details . |
| 9 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 10 | Any internal disciplinary measure to contain such an account is much less likely to become of public concern in the way that the Clive Ponting or the Cathy Massiter prosecutions became notorious causes célèbres . |
| 11 | The steel reinforcements of the dump may not be adequate to contain such an explosion , the engineers suggest : " An explosion could breach containment , shatter surrounding rock or concrete and displace some of the waste material causing further voids , as well as the ingress of groundwater " . |
| 12 | It is our view that designers should generally pursue such an economical , even terse , style but with a clearly-defined choice structure , regarding ‘ initial training ’ as a separate task . |
| 13 | Carefully constructed random samples may yield such an accurate response . |
| 14 | John had not expected such an overwhelming response , and as not even the Ballroom itself could contain such large numbers , he took them all outside into the street to make his selection . |
| 15 | Mr Reynolds was understandably shaken ; even though he had " suspected the worst " ( cancer ) , he had not expected such an extensive operation . |
| 16 | ‘ I might have expected such an answer from you , McAllister ; it fits in with the general picture , ’ said Dr Neil angrily , picking up his cane . |
| 17 | The PageMaker User Group ( now universally known as PMUG ) was established in the spring of 1989 as a result of a direct request from Aldus to a group of independent users to see if it would be possible to establish such an organisation . |
| 18 | Mr Baker , 57 , was apparently offered the post of Secretary of State for Wales , but he clearly felt unable to accept such an obvious demotion . |
| 19 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 20 | This was not at all what the supporters of union wanted , but they were willing , in order to lure and placate British opinion , to accept such an intergovernmental structure alongside an assembly . |
| 21 | However , as responses such as George Gordon 's suggest , there was little indication that university schools of English were willing to accept such an instrumental role and cultural identity simply to serve state policy . " |
| 22 | It is difficult to accept such an argument , however , much as one admires the zeal of human capital theorists . |
| 23 | Aylwin , however , stated that he did not wish to accept such an offer , nor did he feel that it was justified , given that he had agreed to be elected for a four-year period and that to alter the term of office ( by amending the Constitution ) " would be to change the rules of play of our democratic co-existence " . |
| 24 | Were a seller to accept such an indemnity he would probably want to add further clauses requiring the buyer to give prompt notification of such claims , to permit him to take over conduct of the claim , not to admit liability , and to render him any necessary assistance in contesting the claim . |
| 25 | But does the book need such an ending ? |
| 26 | Three years later the Controller-General Necker created such an assembly , one-third of whose members were to be nominated by the king and the rest elected , for the province of Berry . |
| 27 | What is so remarkable is that , given the force of the currents in which the Bolsheviks were swimming , Lenin retained such an obstinate consistency in resisting them . |
| 28 | It was a measure of how well they had done that he even considered such an awful thing . |
| 29 | The framework knitters enjoyed such a time between 1755 and 1785 , continuing to some extent to 1804 , and William Radcliffe described such an age for cotton hand-loom weavers from 1788 to 1803 . |
| 30 | The alerting of other persons suspected of having committed such an offence but not yet arrested for it . |