Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 61 | Who would want to soil such a figure ? |
| 62 | Who would want to soil such a figure ? |
| 63 | By the time he had reached ‘ Who would want to soil such a figure ? ’ he was experiencing a full erection . |
| 64 | ‘ Who would want to soil such a figure ? ’ |
| 65 | In particular , we would want to use such a system for connecting the specialist gardens and the nursery to the plant record system . |
| 66 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 67 | There is a facility on most shafts for greasing which if done ( not overdone ) regularly will minimise wear such as on your vehicle . |
| 68 | But the British could avoid turning such disputes into personal grievances with a generosity not available to those who would ultimately be their victims . |
| 69 | The current ideology of devolution may favour letting such schools , along with all the others , sort out their own affairs , but that is hardly fair to their teachers , still less to their pupils . |
| 70 | Perhaps that is a lesson that , at my age , I should stop doing such silly things . |
| 71 | Occasionally in times of dire need they may rouse a dragon from its centuries of slumber , but only their greatest heroes can aspire to ride such ferocious steeds . |
| 72 | Arsenio Hall alone could hardly hope to solve such problems . |
| 73 | Talking to professional designer-producers confirms this point : people will stop to admire such designs , but many more ‘ traditional ’ products are purchased . |
| 74 | She was sure Dane would try to prevent her leaving , and there was no way she could ever hope to beat such a formidable opponent . |
| 75 | Businessmen may hope to ignore such sloganising . |
| 76 | Delors ' proposals were clearly out of all proportion to that figure , and he was soon obliged to retreat with a lame explanation that he had been ‘ arguing from the absurd to show what it would cost to achieve such a goal ’ . |
| 77 | A senior executive of a business once told me that he had difficulty in getting women employees to realize and make known such skills in the working environment . |
| 78 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 79 | Huy wondered whether that eldest daughter , who worked as Reni 's secretary , had helped him destroy the documents he drew up during Akhenaten 's reign , which would have given such priceless ammunition to his enemies , before turning his attention to the newcomers . |
| 80 | Our constituents were horrified that the media should have given such a person a platform , and that the father 's attitude was so wholly irresponsible . |
| 81 | But , then , he could not have foreseen such terrible days as these , when ‘ the contemplation of futurity ’ inspired only fear and dread . |
| 82 | Nobody could have foreseen such a rapid expansion prior to , and since , moving into the new premises . |
| 83 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 84 | Nothing in Tristram 's letter could have provoked such a response . |
| 85 | What , she wondered , could have provoked such uncharacteristic behaviour ? |
| 86 | Labov recognises that certain forms of standard English may well have developed such explicitness further than some dialect forms . |
| 87 | Enterprising landowners may have developed such valuable assets and erected health resorts similar to establishments of recent centuries . |
| 88 | It occurred to Lyn — fleetingly , to be gone in a moment that most men would have broken such a thing more gently to their wives . |
| 89 | This development on the green belt of Ipswich is partly because of the Conservative Government withering away the planning powers of borough councils , who in the past would have dismissed such a planning application as this , on the grounds that housing and industry should not mix and that it is desirable to have a green buffer zone between the two . |
| 90 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |