Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] had such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite much discussion these days of the ‘ entrepreneurial personality , ’ few of the entrepreneurs with whom I have worked during the last 30 years had such personalities . |
| 2 | Many an age has passed since I last descended to Undersea ; I did not know the dark powers had such a grip on it . |
| 3 | On the whole the writing of the 1880s did demand change and assumed that the privileged readers had such change within their power . |
| 4 | It will long remain a problem to the average person that these sheds had such wide popularity and that so little use was made of the cheaper , cleaner , or , in fact , better umbrella sheds . |
| 5 | As she went she arranged her violets : " Put their feet together , dear , and the flowers will fall into a pretty natural shape , " she had been told ; not so easy to achieve when neglected violets had such short legs . |
| 6 | Dr Michael Moore of Glasgow University showed that mothers who drank water with a high lead level were twice as likely to have mentally retarded babies ; 61 per cent of mothers involved in stillbirths or whose foetuses were abnormal had placental lead levels over 1.5 ppm whereas only 7 per cent of those with normal babies had such high lead levels . |
| 7 | Few would deny that there are elements of truth in this explanation , but it has been criticized as incomplete because of its bias towards élites and its failure to explain why nationalist symbols had such wide appeal . |