Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to such a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will question NAB 's assertion that the value of the brewery operations has fallen to such a level that asset-backed loans are in jeopardy . |
| 2 | The European dimension has grown to such a level that a dedicated European unit is being established . |
| 3 | By this time , the Prince 's obsession with caves has grown to such a fever pitch that his servants are barely given time to unpack his toothbrush before he spies another gash in the rock , this time many countless miles away . |
| 4 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 5 | During the same time , the size and the shape of the company has changed to such a point that some of our assets are no longer meaningful to us as one of the world 's leading independent exploration and production companies . |
| 6 | I think few of us could avoid becoming attached to such a fish ! |
| 7 | No one like himself , a partial cripple , with a badly scarred body — his limp was paining him this week — and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise ; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore . |
| 8 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 9 | If people had imagined in 1933 that things would have come to such a pitch , they 'd never have voted for Hitler . |
| 10 | I could never have agreed to such a plan , but was pleased at Mick 's change of mood . |
| 11 | Some of the vacant buildings may have deteriorated to such a condition that restoration costs would be prohibitive . |
| 12 | The older groups are less likely to have contributed to such a scheme while they were in the labour force , and are therefore less likely to have an occupational pension . |
| 13 | Quite clearly , to the shame of local and central government , the homelessness crisis has been allowed to get to such a level that I would describe it as a national disgrace . ’ |
| 14 | For both of them their doubt has become a protective reflex against the unhealthy responses they feel forced to make to such a God . |
| 15 | Is it really true that industrialists do not want to return to such a situation ? |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 17 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 18 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 19 | One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter . |
| 20 | By the following year , guerrilla activity on the part of the Zealots had intensified to such a degree that Rome was obliged to take vigorous countermeasures . |
| 21 | The situation had too many of the elements of a farce about it , and he wondered briefly why he had agreed to such a scheme . |
| 22 | The European Commission of Human Rights was created to receive complaints of abuses from states and ( where the country concerned had agreed to such a procedure ) from individuals . |
| 23 | If one wished to aspire to such a role , what criteria would one need to fulfil , I wonder ? |
| 24 | Both Geoffrey le Baker and Murimuth are clear that this was the crucial issue under discussion in the parliament , and both record that the king refused to agree to such a proposal . |
| 25 | The reason why a release to one debtor releases all jointly liable is , because , unless it was held to do so , the co-debtor , after paying the debt , might sue him who was released for contribution , and so in effect he would not be released ; but that reason does not apply where the debtor released agrees to such a qualification of the release as will leave him liable to any rights of the co-debtor . |
| 26 | The ‘ middle class ’ designation logically implies a three-class model , featuring an upper class , yet as Townsend noted ‘ practically nobody claims to belong to such a class ’ ( 1979 , p. 374 ) . |
| 27 | It 's a long a complicated issue but it 's got to such a head that the complete scheme for regenerating the and the very badly affected coal fields in is being stopped . |
| 28 | But I mean , it 's getting to the stage now where it 's gon na become counter-productive , well , for me cos it 's got to such a point now where I 've got exchanges going through , I 've got erm sales going through , details to be typed , canvassing going out , instructions , appointments to make , the outcomes |