Example sentences of "[adj] such an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 2 | What is much less likely to be recognized is the importance of considering the interrelationship between these various initiatives , and certainly there is no sign as yet that such an evaluation is to take place . |
| 3 | That such an interpretation , even though it deviates in important respects from Hume 's own intentions , is much less vulnerable to criticism , will be seen more clearly in the next chapter , when we analyse in greater depth the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity , and its ontological significance . |
| 4 | Whilst on a tour of US forces deployed in the Gulf , Dugan had told reporters that if war broke out then the US would bomb Baghdad and that such an attack would target Saddam Hussein in particular . |
| 5 | That such an attack could have been successfully executed — apparently taking the allied forces by surprise — was in itself an impressive achievement given the extent of allied air superiority . |
| 6 | Given that such an emergency admission should be avoided at all costs , how can a social worker plan an admission so that it offers the person concerned a positive choice ? |
| 7 | Never did I embark on a foreign visit with more keenness ; for I felt that time was short , and that such an opportunity might never recur . |
| 8 | Using a mixture of regression , clustering and genetic algorithms , it becomes possible to ‘ train ’ the computer to recognise the signals that indicate a given event , and to decide the most appropriate action , if any , that such an event should trigger . |
| 9 | He wanted to gain her total submission , a mastery of her that was complete and overwhelmingly final , and she knew , instinctively , that such an achievement was not beyond his power . |
| 10 | However , the People 's Daily of Nov. 11 noted that some people did not have " a good understanding " of the need for austerity measures , and that such an attitude should be " resolutely rectified " . |
| 11 | Note , too , that such an idea runs counter to the suggestion that syllabuses should be designed along notional/functional lines . |
| 12 | The monistic position , as we saw , was that such an idea , ii closely examined , does not make clear sense , because there can be no unequivocal criteria of numerical diversity . |
| 13 | So far , the case discussed in this book for the extended use of the industrial co-operative as a form of organisation for production or provision has stood primarily upon the proposition that it is an expression of authentic industrial democracy , that such an extension would help to fill a debilitating gap in the practice in the United Kingdom of western liberal principles , to mend what Bertrand Russell calls ‘ this disruption of democracy from within' . |
| 14 | A phone call made just before midnight to St Aldate 's Police Station had been relayed to the murder scene at Parson 's Pleasure : Mrs Marion Kemp , of 6 Cherwell Lodge , had reported that her husband , who had left for London early that morning , had still not arrived back home ; that such an occurrence was quite unprecedented , and that she was beginning ( had long begun ! ) to feel a little ( a whole lot ! ) worried about him . |
| 15 | I hope that we shall hear the Solicitor-General tell us shortly that such an amendment has the approval and support of the Government . |
| 16 | My hypothesis is that there is a space for a socialist argument in favour of investment planning ; that such an argument could be presented in such a way as to appeal to organised labour and even to broader strata of the population concerned about employment prospects and their standard of living in retirement ; that if organised workers were to support the proposal they could use their union organisation to press for social accountability of their savings funds ; and that if the proposals were not linked to a ‘ dogmatic ’ pursuit of nationalisation they would stand a chance of recruiting some support from the more progressive elements of the state and corporate salariat — those whose technical expertise would be required in any such project , even if it is overlaid with oppressive ‘ professional ’ and ‘ managerial ’ ideologies — helping to isolate , so far as possible , reactionary financier elements . |
| 17 | The point is — and our survey reveals it — that such an amount does deter some youngsters from participating in tournaments and again with respect , I would guess that few of them come from the lovely part of the country from where you write . |
| 18 | Even if the suggestion that is made is not feasible , it should be listened to with courtesy and responded to with the respect that such an offer demands . |
| 19 | It may be , of course , that such an inference is wrong , but , as discourse processors , we seem to prefer to make inferences which have some likelihood of being justified and , if some subsequent information does not fit in with this inference , we abandon it and form another . |
| 20 | Irvine has argued that the opening of this entry channel may also require InsP 4 and that such an action would explain those instances where both inositol phosphates are required . |
| 21 | Few ethologists would doubt , however , that such an experiment would be successful . |
| 22 | Given that such an employee would face dismissal if that were proven , a company should face no less than severe curtailment of its operations across the North sea . |
| 23 | That such an organism existed , or exists , has been the subject of much speculation by palaeobiologists and geochemists interested in the origin of the so-called banded iron formations ( BIFs ) ; these are sedimentary ores typically composed of alternating layers of silica- and iron-rich minerals that can often be traced as discrete units over hundreds of kilometres . |
| 24 | It is only from the 1960s that such an audience was created on a mass scale . |
| 25 | From an avowed anti-socialist such an argument was by no means entirely free of complexities ; indeed he seemed aware of them , even to draw pleasure from the difficulty they posed for an opponent who would have to sort out the tangle . |
| 26 | To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 . |
| 27 | However widespread such an attitude may have been in popular piety ( and perhaps it has been widespread ) , and though it may be thinkable to a Latin American theologian today , it is hardly orthodox . |
| 28 | 3.23 Exemplary damages will now only be awarded if the claim passes two tests : ( 1 ) It has to be in respect of a cause of action for which prior to 1964 such an award had been made ; and ( 2 ) It has to fall within one of the two categories identified by Lord Devlin in Rookes v Barnard [ 1964 ] AC 1129 namely , |
| 29 | Our concern , however , is not with the difficulties of aesthetics , but only with what a critic writes of aesthetic experience , and how useful such an account may be . |
| 30 | There is no reason to suppose that in Harlingdon Ltd such an exclusion clause would not have been maintained , especially since it would hardly be likely to deter art experts from using their skills in the market place to discover masterpieces . |