Example sentences of "[verb] or [vb infin] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 2 | Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things . |
| 3 | The complexities of this network must be understood , and will be explained more fully in Chapter 7 together with suggestions on ways social workers may help to sustain or develop such a network . |
| 4 | In fact what the members of the Committee wished to do was to alter the law , not expressly to encourage or legalise such practices , but to remove them , like adultery and other sins , from the realm of the law . |
| 5 | This pagan kingly behaviour ( more reminiscent of ancient kingship rights than orthodox Christian behaviour ) gave rise to criticism from the Church , but no one dared openly to accuse or chastise such a powerful ruler . |
| 6 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 7 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 8 | ‘ So it did , as it was meant to do , but I did n't expect or want such a drastic test . ’ |
| 9 | It is not enough for the Commission merely to show that the merger will create or strengthen such a market position if the maintenance or development of effective competition would not be likely to be impaired . |
| 10 | Running concurrent with this , however , was a belief that the community in the post-war period did little to ensure or support such life styles . |
| 11 | 3.11 Any covenant by the Tenant not to do an act or thing shall be deemed to include an obligation [ to use reasonable endeavours ] not to permit or suffer such act or thing to be done by another person [ where the Tenant is aware that such act or thing is being done ] |
| 12 | Obviously , a lifetime of experience is needed to recognise or remember such minutiae , and most of us will need to fly to our bibliographies . |
| 13 | We avoid all invitations to judge or sponsor such competitions . |
| 14 | At the time , descriptive geology could ignore or deny such a theory , by postulating the existence of land bridges and sea-level changes which permitted the movement of organisms between continents . |
| 15 | It would constitute a typically academic fallacy to believe that analysis on its own — the sheer power of thought — could change or reverse such a situation , but it could well affect it . |
| 16 | Nobody can really comprehend or imagine such a large number , and we just think of this degree of improbability as synonymous with impossible . |
| 17 | By removing the present focus of much community activity and co-operation , school closure will reduce or eliminate such activities in the future and thus destroy the community itself . |
| 18 | Then an obscene rootless jealousy came over her , although , of course , she herself would never allow or enjoy such an unseemly embrace . |
| 19 | This is not faking , however , because waking subjects know perfectly well a child can not write or spell such a sentence . |
| 20 | Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind . |
| 21 | Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind . |
| 22 | Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind . |
| 23 | ( 5 ) 5.85 gives the police power of entry into licensed premises , and makes it an offence to refuse or obstruct such entry . |
| 24 | This is not enough to show that anyone can have authority to introduce or enforce such a scheme . |
| 25 | How could he forgive or forget such a slight ? |