Example sentences of "they [vb past] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers . |
| 2 | It I think forty five they started negotiating forty five forty to forty seven and er when we tried to alter the national agreement or change it in our minds for the better you always had the solid block of these wee fellows up and down the country sticking by the national agreement because they got such a good deal out of it it brought their standards right up to the the best that was going . |
| 3 | In 1840 they made such diverse products as doeskins , superfines , scarlet hunters and billiard cloth . |
| 4 | It was amazing , therefore , that they made such an impression … |
| 5 | In some cases the State conducting the investigation ( by virtue of being the State of occurrence ) sought only to exonerate the services ( chiefly air traffic control and navigational services ) from any involvement in the cause of the accident while at the same time being content to attribute the cause of the accident to some shortcoming on the part of the pilots without seeking to find out why they made such mistakes . |
| 6 | I stopped calling Leon 's name and felt unreasonably furtive , wished the dogs were n't with me , they made such a noise . |
| 7 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 8 | Well they made such a mess of this ring ! |
| 9 | And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena 's husband |
| 10 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 11 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 12 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 13 | Ireland 's timing was perfect in that they produced such a stunning performance in front of three of the four Lions selectors , Ken Reid , Derek Morgan and Bob Munro . |
| 14 | Ivan Foster , in an attempt to show that Knox and Calvin were democrats , pointed out that they sought such popular mandates as were available in their societies . |
| 15 | They regarded such activity as a schoolboy game of cloaks and daggers . |
| 16 | Their basic objection was that they found such concepts unhelpful and non-explanatory . |
| 17 | There was no special room for the purpose except the receiving-room for all persons on first admission , and they found such lunatics dangerous and objectionable . |
| 18 | It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems . |
| 19 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 20 | Their ultimate source is maps from Roman imperial times , but in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they received such modifications as the placing of Jerusalem in the centre , as on the Hereford map . |
| 21 | This was one reason why they played such an important role in the renaissance of interest in the classical world from the fifteenth century onwards : here were many examples of objects giving tangible evidence for events which could otherwise only be read about . |
| 22 | That 's because they played such a very big part in preserving the viability of small railways with scattered populations like the County Donegal … the sort of fascinating little operation that investors would have to think twice about before investing just one rail-spike in . |
| 23 | He is agnostic and argues that the churches have failed society with their inflexibility and their refusal to embrace homosexuality and , in the case of the Roman Catholic church , contraception ; though Glennis feels they might be accused of accelerating moral decline if they approved such things . |
| 24 | The London County Council opposed Tramway No. 3 , but agreed to permit through running if they constructed such a tramway themselves . |
| 25 | Mr Major said : ‘ They signed such documents on the advice of the Attorney General . ’ |
| 26 | Out of a total response of 1,397 , the following pattern of submissions emerged with regard to category of respondent : Employed solicitors were included in the ‘ other ’ category as they constituted such a small percentage of the total number of respondents . |
| 27 | Reports that almost one-third of volunteers for the army during the Boer War had to he rejected due to physical inadequacy ( too short or too thin ) or ill-health ( in many case due to flat feet or bad teeth but frequently also due to heart and lung trouble or other serious ailments ) were often exaggerated , but they strengthened such fears . |
| 28 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |
| 29 | They feared such a punishment for insolently pointing out that Mrs Thatcher 's pet plan for student loans was a non-starter . |
| 30 | At home they took such things without comment . |