Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] such a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For 20 minutes the air will gradually charge , as Sidney 's fantastical imaginary seduction acts itself out through the medium of Byrd 's music , so neutral on the surface but so supremely calculated to carry such a sensual text . |
| 2 | My own view is that connectionism ( see Chapter 7 ) is well placed to provide such a computational account of sensorimotor development ; but that is not the issue here . |
| 3 | In a recent editorial The Australian Financial Review , the national daily newspaper , said of the pilots ' dispute : ‘ Relentless rhetoric , cynical misinformation and myopic stubbornness have coalesced to provide such a poisonous setting to the dispute that any compromise will be presented as defeat . |
| 4 | He says it 's a great shock to everybody and not something you expect to affect such a young chap . |
| 5 | I hesitate to write such a critical letter , but frankly I am at a loss to see how your new design can in any way be seen as an improvement . |
| 6 | Nor is it self evident that the profession could reasonably be expected to fund such a massive activity out of its own pocket . |
| 7 | Aidan Marron , defending Wishart and Drummond , said the men had not expected to get such a large haul . |
| 8 | ‘ But the British public would like to see a fight here between me and Bruno and we can get that on , if Frank wants to take such a big risk . ’ |
| 9 | Pity to cut such a pretty face but she 'd asked for it . |
| 10 | ‘ And tell me , my sweet , coy little virgin , what did you do to deserve such a terrible fate ? ’ |
| 11 | The public was bewildered as to what Blake had done to deserve such a draconian sentence . |
| 12 | Finally the courts do not appear to exhibit such a protective attitude towards the employee when asked to control his misuse of business secrets . |
| 13 | Why are you prepared to play such a desperate game , to put your whole future in jeopardy like this ? ’ |
| 14 | However , since it is ‘ not an easy distinction for the police , magistrates and juries to have to make ’ , no attempt should be made to draw such a legal distinction at the lower level of ‘ injury ’ offences . |
| 15 | For example , the extensive list of qualifications and caveats which Marshall appended to his exposition of the quantity theory of money had threatened to cast such a long shadow over its validity that Marshall appeared to take freight and retarait behind the ceteris paribus stipulation which so typified his approach to economics . |
| 16 | ‘ He said the surgeons asked him how he learnt to do such a good job and he said it was in the army . ’ |
| 17 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 18 | ‘ And Terry and Stephen seemed to have such a good time there . |
| 19 | A number of writers have sought to distinguish such a procedural challenge from the substantive challenge in cases such as Jordan arguing that it does not seek to limit Parliament 's area of power . |
| 20 | He must be past thirty now , but she would never have believed he could have grown to make such a gross figure of a man . |
| 21 | Instead of confining the Cup to a gleaming glass case somewhere , the Australian Rugby Union took the attitude that if you 're going to win such a proud flag of valour , the only sensible thing to do is to wave it around . |
| 22 | In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Business Journal , during which he showed a model of a six-seat design by Burt Rutan which is believed to be that currently in flight test at Mojave ( Pilot Notes , May ) , Togo commented : ‘ I 'd like to build such a futuristic plane . |
| 23 | She had n't needed to offer such a weak plea as a scratched finger after all , Isabel remembered . |
| 24 | ‘ Those two are going to have such a good time — is n't it just so lucky , their being born almost together ? ’ |
| 25 | They 're not quite so committed to doing maths in the morning and English in the afternoon , whereas in a secondary school it is quite difficult to bring in something as that 's going to have such a dramatic effect as a micro without sort of the ripples actually perturbing things to a destructive degree . |
| 26 | Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’ |
| 27 | And nowhere in our lives do more problems seem to arise than in the area of relationships — and no other problems seem to have such a long-lasting effect . |
| 28 | It all began because my friend Pat was called by the Lord to work as a nurse in Saudi , and her experiences there gave me an interest in that country and especially in the Women as they seem to have such a hard life . |
| 29 | So how did Yukawa dare to make such a revolutionary proposal ? |
| 30 | It was demoralising to think such a beautiful girl could have so mean and greedy a spirit . |