Example sentences of "[prep] such a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday .
2 In his Introduction to the Paston Letters J. Gairdner pointed out that letters were often dated as being written on a particular day of the week , say Monday or Wednesday , before or after such a celebration .
3 Previous reports had suggested that such subgroups of patients did well in terms of survival in the short and medium term after transplantation , assuming that the development of renal failure requiring dialysis had not occurred before receiving a suitable organ , and quality of life has been shown to increase in absolute terms after such a procedure .
4 The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event .
5 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment .
6 The expense involved will , however , be justified only by the demonstration of a good long term outlook after such a management approach .
7 And every morning after such a dream , she died again for him .
8 After such a blow to belief in the government 's honesty and in its all-seeing ability to fix things , the leap to anti-communist opposition was all the easier to make .
9 When did you last , after such a hug , instead of taking your partner to bed , take him or her by the hand and walk into the garden ?
10 Buchan , in the heat of the moment , threatened to leave the club after such a humiliation so near his old Sunderland home .
11 It is not easy to show calm and unshaken before others , after such a deed . ’
12 Those who had perished after such a challenge included Harry S. Truman , Gerald Ford , and Jimmy Carter , whilst in 1968 Lyndon Johnson decided against seeking re-election after a poor showing against Eugene McCarthy .
13 I found a difference in Ivy after such a time .
14 Yeah but you know after such a time with children there is something like that
15 High concentrations of circulating cyclosporin A have been measured in our study 24 hours after the last dose of cyclosporin A. Furthermore , tissue concentrations of cyclosporin A in the pancreas are still high after such a period of time .
16 He thought it was worth having back in Northallerton after such a gap .
17 The similarities between such a scheme of reclamation and discipline and those widely mooted proposals of the 1980s to reclaim the youth through compulsory job-training or ‘ community service ’ should not pass unnoticed .
18 In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism .
19 Most important , there may be no interesting similarity whatsoever that could be formulated in the vocabulary of physics between such a system and the brain .
20 The so-called Caudal Sympathetic Nervous System arises from the posterior compound ganglion of the ventral nerve-cord and supplies the reproductive system and posterior part of the gut ; it is , however , difficult to draw a clear distinction between such a system and the visceral branches of the peripheral nervous system considered below .
21 This is not a case where the demand was based on an erroneous interpretation of legislation by the revenue ; my provisional view is that there is no distinction between such a case and a case like the present where the demand is based on an invalid regulation and is therefore ultra vires .
22 The flow of investment between such a country and an industrialised nation is one-way , not reciprocal , and the stake which the less developed country has in overseas interests is minimal ( or possibly non-existent ) .
23 What do we believe of the connections between such a set , which we may call a causal circumstance , and the effect ?
24 Revision even of the logical law of the excluded middle has been proposed as a means of simplifying quantum mechanics ; and what difference is there in principle between such a shift and the shift whereby Kepler superseded Ptolemy , or Einstein Newton , or Darwin Aristotle ?
25 Bush was more cautious about such a possibility , but accepted her view that the UK must not become the only European NATO member to provide bases for air-launched nuclear weapons .
26 Significantly , however , in view of what was subsequently to happen , during the week leading up to the ballot there were growing reservations among her supporters , including ministers , about such a course of action .
27 I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles .
28 A slope of 4 to 1 was indeed mentioned in the original memorandum ( appendix A ) of Gordon Thomas , but there was nothing exclusive about such a ratio .
29 And because the Crabb operation was unauthorised the Director General of MI6 could also honestly tell the inquiry that he too knew nothing about such a plan .
30 There is nothing intrinsically bad about such a link and it can be enormously helpful .
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