Example sentences of "[be] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |
| 2 | Since then there 's been such winners as ‘ B-A-B-Y ’ ( Carla Thomas , 1966 and Rachel Sweet , 1978 ) , ‘ Baby , Baby ’ ( Eighth Wonder , 1988 ) and ‘ Baby ’ ( Halo James , 1990 ) , the Mechanical Copyright people announcing a year ago that their database , at that point , contained 81 songs called ‘ Baby , Baby ’ , 22 titled ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ and even one called ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ! |
| 3 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |
| 4 | We have always been such witnesses and such representatives . ’ |
| 5 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 6 | of them are such dickheads |
| 7 | For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . |
| 8 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 9 | The ability to fit life-cycles into seasons , to flourish in times of plenty and survive in times of dearth , is clearly critical for polar species ; so also are such qualities as adaptability to change , avoidance of specialization , and deftness in colonizing new habitats . |
| 10 | Indeed , so integrated are such aims that , as the previous sections have shown , the so-called " vocational argument " is difficult to distinguish from others . |
| 11 | Are such perceptions accurate , distorted or partial and to what extent do they enable public sector staff to meet , merge with , miss or perhaps even collide with the aspirations of their local groups ? |
| 12 | If the earth spins , why are such objects not flung from the earth 's surface , as stones would be flung from the rim of a rotating wheel ? |
| 13 | Are such approaches applicable to our business ? |
| 14 | How are such preferences to be understood in terms of underlying processes ? |
| 15 | Nowhere are such tensions more evident than in Berlin . |
| 16 | So , for instance , the definitions of ‘ normality ’ and ‘ abnormality ’ are clearly social definitions but so are such descriptions as ‘ homosexual ’ , ‘ paedophile ’ , ‘ transvestite ’ , and so on , and these can act as mechanisms of control . |
| 17 | Nor are such stories necessarily false : life may deliberately imitate literature ( cp. p. 268 on Alexander and the Homeric heroes ) , and life may imitate life — Domitian reading Tiberius ' notebooks to get ideas . |
| 18 | Quite apart from the problem of the factual reliability of old books ( is it so , for example , that there really are such eidoli and angeli as Williams , Abelard , Pseudo-Dionysus and Plato believed ? ) , we meet , much earlier , the simple difficulty of adjusting to old meanings . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , I was just thinking what a pity it is that all good-looking men are such beasts , ’ she said , with more real feeling than she intended . |
| 20 | This does not , of course , have any bearing upon whether or not there are such laws of social life to discover or imply that the survey method ought to be abandoned . |
| 21 | I know there are such things as odds and that they are seldom in my favour . |
| 22 | The problem with beliefs is that they can often be unrealistic and stubborn ( see Beliefs on page 21 ) but reasonable behavioural rights are such things as : |
| 23 | There are such things as oxyacetylene torches , you know . |
| 24 | Sitting on a rock , arguing over the remains of a goat , are three Ogres — if there are such things as especially stupid Ogres , it 's these three . |
| 25 | The symbolic resources are such things as exclusive rights to access parts of the database , operating system locks , and so on . |
| 26 | The world is discovered , not invented , and , just as a map should record the presence of dragons only if there are dragons , so science should deal in forces and causal laws only if there are such things . |
| 27 | But those who find these positions unattractive will have to look further if they want to say that there are such things as knowledge or justified belief . |
| 28 | For the oddities I have spoken of go to the newspapers and novels of the period , where there are such things . |
| 29 | Until this month , I thought that all anyone needs to know besides budget are such things as preferred processor ( a 486DX ) , speed ( at least 33MHz ) , hard disk size ( as big as the bucks allow ) , monitor type ( ditto ) and a familiar brand need which would be there forever to honour a warranty . |
| 30 | ‘ There are such things as buses and trains , ’ she reminded him with a touch of sarcasm . |