Example sentences of "they [to-vb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 2 | He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ . |
| 3 | Christina did not like them to receive such a bad impression of Crystal Springs . |
| 4 | When the Home Secretary meets the car manufacturers in March , will he impress on them the seriousness of the situation and consider compelling them to fit such devices as standard , bearing in mind that , last weekend alone , £100,000 worth of damage was caused by car theft in my constituency ? |
| 5 | They did n't have the power behind them to handle such situations . |
| 6 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 7 | The organisation has campaigned for oil tankers to be equiped with double hulls to minimise dangers of oil spills and for them to avoid such environmentally sensitive areas such as the Shetland isles . |
| 8 | It made the town far more interesting to both of them to have such insights . |
| 9 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
| 10 | In a few areas local government agencies took some steps to tackle this problem , but real progress did not come until central government gave local authorities powers to act effectively , and also required them to take such action . |
| 11 | Why is it so important for them to say such things ? |
| 12 | Different groups have different access to resources that may enable them to make such a move . |
| 13 | But he smiled rather overpoweringly at the Gnomes , and said that : no , they would not dream of asking them to make such a journey , so hard on the heels of their march in from Gallan . |
| 14 | Why is it necessary for them to make such a claim ? |
| 15 | Allowing them to make such a decision does not sanction it — far from it . |