Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [modal v] [verb] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 2 | If you can afford such luxuries , the device known as the Steadicam JR will give you perfectly smooth shooting even while you are walking your camcorder through a tracking shot ! |
| 3 | If we can bring such talks into being , we shall be making our contribution . |
| 4 | If we can recognise such features and foster them , we may be able to make a wiser choice in obtaining analytical data . |
| 5 | ‘ Whatever would Daisy and Edwin Pettigrew say if they could see such behaviour ! ’ |
| 6 | No account of science can be regarded as anywhere near adequate unless it can accommodate such factors . |
| 7 | I tried telling her she was wrong , which was silly really , because no-one ought to decide such things for anyone else … ’ |
| 8 | She had already fallen in love with him , her whole heart had been surrendered , but he could never know that because he would have such power over her that she would never be able to deny him her body . |
| 9 | Everywhere in China sophisticated hand-made tools are used , and the Chinese assume that because anyone can make such things they have less value than , say , a plastic bag . |
| 10 | He further argued , or at least implied , that to permit a ‘ non-catholic ’ to adopt children would be wrong because it might put such children 's eternal salvation in jeopardy ( Whyte 1980 : 188–9 ) . |
| 11 | Robyn gasped incoherently as his mouth played and teased , felt the moistness of desire increasing until she wondered dazedly whether she could endure such ecstasy any longer . |
| 12 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 13 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |