Example sentences of "such [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s such excesses had been banished from the best classrooms ; the teachers in my Group all acknowledged the need for a sensible balance in the class-room between the formal and the informal . |
| 2 | This separation allows for further twists in the nature of representation , since the failure of the modernist council estate could be ( and was ) manipulated by the media to appear as evidence for the failure of the ideals of communality such estates appeared to represent . |
| 3 | For such reasons formalized drafting procedures were developed . |
| 4 | It is worth noting that one source of funds for such building came from indulgences , which bishops granted for the purpose , and that another was bequests in wills , although the proportion of testators leaving money to this charity seems to have declined between 1400 and 1530 ( 82 , pp.205–6 ; 242 ) . |
| 5 | By the early 1970s , well over a hundred such projects had been completed or were in progress : the largest single number in the sciences , but with mathematics , English , and the humanities also scoring high . |
| 6 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 7 | Lying behind this shift in opinion about professional development lay the knowledge that , whether instrumental or interactive , such projects faced two major problems in creating coherent normative practices in classrooms . |
| 8 | Where such projects did produce their ‘ fair return ’ ( a minimum of 5 per cent ) , their tenants were drawn from the relatively prosperous upper working class of artisans , and not from the truly indigent for whom they were intended . |
| 9 | Fundraising began in earnest , with the first of such projects intended to fund restoration and the modernisation of storage spaces . |
| 10 | The presence of such oases made human travel and nomadic existence possible in arid lands . |
| 11 | Such blooms attracted several kinds of insects — bees as well as beetles . |
| 12 | The development of such institutions resulted partly from the dissemination of beliefs in the importance of a child 's environment upon personality , and of realization that children brought up in large institutions found considerable difficulty later in adjusting to non-institutional life . |
| 13 | In Russia such institutions did not exist . |
| 14 | Rooted in civil society and operating with some independence from inter-state relations , such institutions provided a potential check and counter-balance to the tendency towards anarchy inherent in a system of rival nation states . |
| 15 | If so , such expedients failed , for Ælfgifu was soon back in England supporting her son , and he may well have owed his popularity in the midlands partly to her Mercian kindred . |
| 16 | Several of the other known members of such groups had Arab connections or were opposed to Zionist ambitions in Palestine . |
| 17 | The pressure exerted by such groups had a stronger influence than management demands . |
| 18 | As we have seen , some of the earlier and more enthusiastic apologists for pluralism , such as Dahl and Plamenatz , did suggest both that the spread of pressure and interest groups covered more or less the whole of society and also that such groups competed with each other on a roughly equal basis . |
| 19 | The membership of such groups showed a marked bias towards individuals of petit bourgeois or middle-class background who had obsessions of varying intensity about the Jews . |
| 20 | First , the number of such groups increased significantly . |
| 21 | Such experience had aged her in advance of her years , and Jennifer was sometimes inclined to think that Jill was two or three years older than herself rather than eighteen months younger . |
| 22 | Such experience proved invaluable as increased administrative and financial responsibilities were placed on Trustees . |
| 23 | Based across the border in Sudan , he had formed the MPS with Libyan backing , and had launched a series of offensives from Sudan 's western Darfur region ; the third ( and finally successful ) such offensive began on Nov. 10 . |
| 24 | Such verdicts caused controversy and bitter illwill between the people and the Forest officers . |
| 25 | Secondly , all participants in such discussions took a very pessimistic view of the likely scale of bombing casualties , and hence considered it pointless to plan in detail . |
| 26 | Such discussions highlighted the significance of arguments and broken friendships . |
| 27 | But the mere existence of such contacts did not mean very much . |
| 28 | But the mere existence of such contacts did not mean very much . |
| 29 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 30 | And after the smarting ache left by Cameron 's faithlessness , it was pleasant to bask in the kind of warmth — spurious though it might be — which such admiration provided . |