Example sentences of "[pron] [be] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of them are such dickheads |
| 2 | Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud . |
| 3 | ‘ You are such amateurs , you English , such awful amateurs . |
| 4 | But to avoid loading a title with a chain of such covenants , it is perhaps better draftsmanship , when first imposing restrictions , to provide that the owner for the time being shall be responsible only for breaches committed whilst he or she is such owner . |
| 5 | ‘ The Duchess was a fabulous lady , she was such fun , everybody wanted to copy her ; her clothes , her linen … |
| 6 | But anyone who takes the poem head-on , as though entering upon a piece of hitherto unfamiliar English verse , is bound to be struck by its crazy-paving of little-used or dialect words ( " shaws " ) , of samples from the literary lexicon ( " meads " , " unapparelled " ) , of old-tyme poetryspeak ( " thou wast not born for aye " ) , of dubiously archaic constructions ( " friend thee more " " steads him nothing " ) , of blended or cross-bred idioms ( " pure of stain " ) , of literary reminiscences ( " dust and dreams " — a most adroit rendering of , but one that inevitably recalls Shakespeare and " we are such stuff as dreams are made on " ) . |
| 7 | It can not come off , but we aré such masters of philosophical self-deception that it can seem to , and then ‘ it can seem as if the rules of grammar are in a certain sense an unpacking of something we experience all at once when we use a word ’ . |
| 8 | This is despite the fact that there are such programmes as Mastermind , a sheepdog series ( with which I happen to be involved — I declare my interest ) and superb epics by the Natural History Unit . |
| 9 | I know there are such things as odds and that they are seldom in my favour . |
| 10 | There are such things as oxyacetylene torches , you know . |
| 11 | Sitting on a rock , arguing over the remains of a goat , are three Ogres — if there are such things as especially stupid Ogres , it 's these three . |
| 12 | The world is discovered , not invented , and , just as a map should record the presence of dragons only if there are dragons , so science should deal in forces and causal laws only if there are such things . |
| 13 | But those who find these positions unattractive will have to look further if they want to say that there are such things as knowledge or justified belief . |
| 14 | For the oddities I have spoken of go to the newspapers and novels of the period , where there are such things . |
| 15 | ‘ There are such things as buses and trains , ’ she reminded him with a touch of sarcasm . |
| 16 | 6.2 We agree with Bolinger that there are such things as distinctively sense-qualifying adjectives ( although not many of them , and certainly only a small proportion of those that he suggests ) ; we shall take the view that these are restricted to prenominal attributive position , with predicative position reserved solely for referent-qualification . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid there are such things as wire cutters . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a recent manifestation that we are children , or there are such things as children . |
| 19 | There are such things as rent rebates , which is subsidised by the Government . |
| 20 | There are such things as double yellow lines and erm one could put in erm humps , I suppose , to calm traffic and so on and erm I think Phyllis always says ‘ well , we do the best for everybody in the community ’ . |
| 21 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 22 | This does not , of course , have any bearing upon whether or not there are such laws of social life to discover or imply that the survey method ought to be abandoned . |
| 23 | When I walk amongst them , one can not well help thinking he is in North American thickets , there are such quantities . |
| 24 | There are such cases — where a novel idea originated with the Committee 's Opinion and is then taken into the legislation , where a national judge or European Advocate-General cites a Committee report or where a member of the European Parliament says in evidence that he will prepare an amendment to respond to a concern expressed by a sub-committee and then does so . |
| 25 | There are such genes and they are called segregation distorters . |
| 26 | Ryle seems to imply that there are such criteria , but he does not say what they are . |
| 27 | But while he indicates that there are such criteria for distinguishing between dominant and subordinate instances , Althusser pays far more attention to the relation between the dominant instance and economic practice , which itself constitutes a second sort of criterion for identifying the dominant instance . |
| 28 | To what extent are there limits to the growth of public expenditure in a mixed economy , and therefore what impact may such limits ( or the belief that there are such limits ) have upon social policy expenditure ? |
| 29 | This is part of a polemic ( reluctant , because in other contexts and on other grounds Sisson venerates Pound ) against Ezra Pound 's treatment of Virgil : ‘ … there are such absurdities in Pound as the assertion that Gavin Douglas 's excellent Aeneidos is ‘ better than the original ’ , together with other devaluings of Virgil' . |
| 30 | There are such plains , but the typical profile of the seabed is one that contains gigantic mountain ranges , innumerable equally huge volcanoes , and gorges of a depth never dreamed of furrowing the deep-sea floor . |