Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] such a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devlin said , ‘ A remarkable fella , your cousin , to come up with such a prime piece of information so easily . ’ |
| 2 | Even contemplating walking out over such a small matter may seem ridiculous , but within the context of that small world , the dispute was a major one . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ On top of all his talent , to have come back from such a serious injury and regain his best form is supremely brave . |
| 4 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's precisely why I asked you to come here at such a bloody ridiculous time . |
| 6 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 7 | Therefore I would say a poem such as " I wandered lonely as a cloud " is not a good subject for one picture — because the poet can jump around over such a vast expanse and bring image after image to mind : |
| 8 | He says there appeared to be no demand for another residential home because the residents did not want to continue living together in such a large number . |
| 9 | More and more I was enjoying my evenings with Frank and Sarge , and it was great to be accepted warmly into such a compatible family . |
| 10 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 11 | I came back to such a pretty St Luke 's little summer — with pale blue skies and golden leaves and sunshine . |
| 12 | She had to admit later , on renewing her lipstick in the Ladies ' , that it was fun being seen out with such a charismatic man . |
| 13 | Her erstwhile Bohemian boyfriend advised firmly against such a risqué job . |
| 14 | During the school years , children must learn to grow away from such a communicative support system , and increase their communicative independence . |
| 15 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't believe how the paperwork mounts up in such a short time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We have the basis for for going ahead with such a new fighter aircraft , ’ Mr Major said last night . |
| 18 | But we need to look closely at such a rhetorical tool . |
| 19 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 20 | Last week 's starter with Heinz Wolff ( ITV , 13 March ) was all the more impressive for getting off to such a terrible start with the tortuous answer that interviewer Ian Fells elicited to his opener about the meaning of biomedical engineering . |
| 21 | I do not think the people of Scotland are going to put up with such a tepid state of politics for that long . |
| 22 | She was grumbling about being called out at such a late hour . |
| 23 | He could have resented being called out on such a dark , stormy night , not saddled the King 's horse properly and this caused the accident on Kinghorn Ness . |
| 24 | If the new liberals have their way , the law can not be credited even with such a modest achievement . |
| 25 | If Berger took the lead into the first corner , then Senna would have difficulty getting by on such a tight and twisting circuit . |
| 26 | In June 1976 the Labour Secretary of State for Education and Science issued Tameside a directive to proceed with comprehensive reorganization on the grounds that to do otherwise at such a late stage would be unreasonable . |
| 27 | The old lady was at home but she grumbled incessantly at being called upon to go out on such a chilly morning . |
| 28 | They did nothing to root out the men who bankrolled the 1989 Centenary Tour which was brought together in such a sordid , furtive fashion . |
| 29 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
| 30 | It is difficult to program naturally with such a restricted set of conditional jumps , so it is usual to provide the ability to jump on any of four accumulator conditions zero , non-zero , positive ( including zero ) , and negative — and perhaps on combinations of these conditions . |