Example sentences of "such a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why would she do such a think , how could she ? " |
| 2 | If such a telephone call was recorded by the person receiving it then it could mean that Reggie Kray had not broken any prison rules . |
| 3 | Psychologists of vision , for example , have to think in terms of levels of representation that the nervous system computes and not to do so would be to render unintelligible the processes that occur between the transducing of light-rays into electrical impulses at the retina and the cortex recording the object as ( say ) a rigid cylinder rotating at such and such a distance from the viewing point . |
| 4 | Far away in the darkness , a train sounded a horn , and it was a small proof of human existence , even at such a distance from her , even flashing past across the countryside powerless to assist to her . |
| 5 | Finding locomotives of this scale which will operate over such a distance is not easy . |
| 6 | Even so , it took great nerve and daring to ride that wind for such a distance and it is a fitting tribute to the bravery of the balloon pioneers , yet it will be seen that those men and women who followed Sadler into the skies display , in their own way , no less daring than he . |
| 7 | At such a distance there must be as little as one molecule of scent in a cubic yard of air , yet it is sufficient to cause the male to fly in pursuit of its source . |
| 8 | In the first place , there is the time factor : her first biography was begun over twenty years after the publication of BT and even honest sisters ' memories would be fallible at such a distance . |
| 9 | By creating such a distance Zarina Bhimji can become her own audience . |
| 10 | ‘ It must be difficult to sustain a romance at such a distance . |
| 11 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
| 12 | Such a construction allows the foot to move naturally and freely without slipping or rolling over . |
| 13 | Furthermore such a construction does not sit easily with subsection ( 3 ) which preserves the common law as it existed immediately before the Act which undoubtedly gave parents an effective power of consent for all children up to the age of 21 , the then existing age of consent : see Gillick 's case [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 167C , per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , and at p. 182E , per Lord Scarman . |
| 14 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 15 | Such a construction fits the few facts given in the early biographical sources and such facts as have emerged from the recently published documentary material in a way that the traditional account does not . |
| 16 | It is just such a spirit that would be wanted to animate the fertility of the earth and ensure the continuance of increase and plenty in the plants and animals that a browsing existence depends upon . |
| 17 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 18 | Later this representation was adopted as the dominant idea of what labour is , since such a concept makes the exploitation of people in capitalism possible . |
| 19 | Such a concept seemed at odds with the progressive and ameliorative spirit of the age . |
| 20 | Such a concept clearly requires further exploration , which I attempt in the next chapter . |
| 21 | Not only would such a concept detract from the value of human existence , I feel it would also be extremely conceited of us to think that we are all there is . |
| 22 | Not only do Christians have the necessary basis for such a concept , but we know that we are commanded to live out a standard unselfishness , far surpassing a mere social grace . |
| 23 | Winnicott provides us with such a concept . |
| 24 | In contrast , we do have such a concept . |
| 25 | At present , however , such a concept is probably beyond the reach of all secondary schools . |
| 26 | Historicism presumes that a concept of history can be borrowed for Marxism from Hegel or from the practice of empiricist historians without difficulty and without asking how such a concept is specific to Marxism : for Althusser the crucial question is to ask ‘ what must be the content of the concept of history imposed by Marx 's theoretical problematic ? ’ |
| 27 | The 1977 Whitford Committee Report however , reviewing UK Copyright law , dismissed a proposal for droit de suite stating that it was not fair , logical or practical for such a concept to be introduced into the UK . |
| 28 | Such a concept was anathema to Hitler 's racial mania , and also clashed with the plans of Rosenberg , Minister for the Eastern Territories , who envisaged the break-up of the USSR into its constituent nationalities as a belt of client statelets for the containment of the surviving rump of Russia itself . |
| 29 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 30 | Strategy may also be such a concept . |