Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] such a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never , perhaps , have I so lived for such a long time together . |
| 2 | From workers there 's bitterness that it 's all ended on such a sour note . |
| 3 | For months , she admitted later , she had faced the possibility of her son being badly injured against such a highly-rated opponent , but now Lennox was not only the winner but emerged with hardly a mark on his body . |
| 4 | Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park . |
| 5 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |
| 6 | But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity . |
| 7 | If you 're likely to face daemons a daemon-slaying sword is essential ( conveniently , Tyrion comes already equipped with such a mighty weapon . ) |
| 8 | Our first decision should be whether we want to write a traditional strophic song ( each verse identical in length and metre ) , or music which is not chained to such a rigid form . |
| 9 | Suitably inspired by such a religious and historic atmosphere we rambled down the lane for a mile and a half towards Whitesand . |
| 10 | It is doubtful that auctioneer John Marion had ever presided over such a disastrous start to an auction . |
| 11 | Sorry , then , for those gallons of petrol fruitlessly spent in such a barren zone . |
| 12 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 13 | Their forced accommodation to the existence of a wide range of non-genetic categories saved them from being solely associated with such a negative approach . |
| 14 | This not only serves to give the issues all the appearance of being fundamental and crucial , but also conceals the fact that matters are not so simple as to be accurately captured by such a dualistic portrayal . |
| 15 | Some general explanation is surely needed for such a wide distribution of such a unique facies during a comparatively short period of geological time . |
| 16 | That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy . |
| 17 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 18 | The first seven frames had never quite pointed to such a convincing victory but once Hendry had forged clear at 6-3 , the writing was on the wall for his Bangkok challenger . |
| 19 | Having secured his new gun licence , however , the youth , who was said by the police to be ‘ nightly associated with a gang of Hooligans who undoubtedly used revolvers ’ , had then waltzed into such a commonplace retail outlet as a barber 's shop and purchased a five-chamber revolver . |
| 20 | But wage negotiations are very rarely conducted at such a high level of aggregation : wage bargaining is a fragmented , decentralized process . |
| 21 | In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure . |
| 22 | Then , walking away in disgust , he said , ‘ I 've never come across such a disgraceful congregation in all the years I 've given burial services . ’ |
| 23 | He told inmates at Pentonville Prison , London : ‘ I have never sat on such a hard chair in my life . ’ |