Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Goldsmiths ' College Certificate offers such a chance . |
| 2 | FOREIGNERS must wonder — and this year more than usual — why the British budget causes such a fuss . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll work well together , but I do n't expect too many favours because Dean has such a great hunger for goals , ’ smiled Atkinson . |
| 4 | Never before in my experience has such a large degree of surface noise been eliminated without any loss of recording information . |
| 5 | I 'm probably quite wrong about that , but you know , when I think of Matisse and Giacometti and people like that , I ca n't compare them ; I think they fall very much below I may be quite wrong about this below the qualities of Picasso , because I think Picasso has such a very universal sense of things . |
| 6 | It seems somewhat incongruous that the official programme contains half a page outlining regulations concerning the ‘ prohibition of alcohol and controlled containers within Murrayfield stadium ’ , while at the same time giving over no less than four pages to the advertising of alcohol . |
| 7 | The term covers such a wide array of diverse explanations that the survival might have been bought at the cost of radical change to its empirical and normative content . |
| 8 | No other industry has such a long history of coming up with environment-friendly selling points that are profit-friendly too . |
| 9 | Ryedale has more a higher proportion of National Park , A O M B , local landscape designation and greenbelt than Hambleton but is unconstrained . |
| 10 | The pond contains half a dozen goldfish and some Orfe and Tench . |
| 11 | He says it 's terrible , because the aircraft has such a good safety record . |
| 12 | Cellulite of the thighs keeps many a woman chaste : a potbelly keeps a man on the straight and narrow like nothing else . |
| 13 | It is no wonder that the United States keeps such a large navy patrolling the trade routes of the world . |
| 14 | Social research encompasses such a wide range of enquiry that it is impossible to generalize about it . |
| 15 | Patterson spells many a words with e , and some of these ( such as rether ‘ rather ’ ) are plainly sporadic residues of rural Scots ( which has [ Ε , e ] in , for example , father , rather , gather and in other pre-dental/ alveolar positions ) ; before nasals , however , e for a is more evident in Patterson . |
| 16 | Some psychologists believe that there is constant activity in the nervous system and that the feedback makes possible a continuous re-adaptation and correction of incorrect practices , even while they are occurring . " |
| 17 | The evolutionary design methodology provides such a strategy . |
| 18 | Washington has expressed its willingness to change the venue for the summit from Vancouver to Moscow if the Russian side makes such a request , but Mr Clinton said he was working on the assumption that it would take place in Canada as planned . |
| 19 | My sister says that a lot . |
| 20 | As mentioned under clause 5.9 it may not be in the original tenant 's best interests for a subsequent guarantor to be able to limit its liability in this manner and therefore if the original guarantor negotiates such a limitation , a specific reference to it should be made in the guarantor 's covenants with care being taken that it is not a general limitation applicable to subsequent guarantors . |
| 21 | Consider the statement that " if the slightest thing goes wrong … if the focusing goes wrong a recognizable image is not formed " . |
| 22 | Of course , no village has such a simple two-fold spatial organization , but the element of segregation is clearly evident in many rural areas . |
| 23 | IDE drives do not need low level formatting so if your BIOS has such a routine , ignore it . |
| 24 | Perhaps never before in the history of Birmingham Town Hall has such a successful meeting been sponsored by such a flimsy organisation . |
| 25 | ‘ It just made me wonder even more why such a destructive hitter has such a modest one day record , with an average of about 27 , ’ said his skipper . |
| 26 | A finder of a chattel has such a title as will enable him to keep it against everyone , with two exceptions : |
| 27 | Only a parent has such a right , and even then the parent may only act in the best interests of the patient . |
| 28 | In some of the most active maritime routes , such as in the North Atlantic and Baltic , the ocean bill has been largely replaced by sea waybills which are receipts of shipment and which can act as documents of title where the applicable law allows such a function . |
| 29 | They burn a hole in the absorption band — which is why IBM calls this a ‘ photochemical hole-burning memory ’ . |
| 30 | An atmosphere of carnival surrounds such a tree . |