Example sentences of "[adv] such an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally such an arrangement would be politically most acceptable to Moscow and Washington where the balance of local forces which bear upon a conflict appear to be stalemated and where the interests of the superpowers are not greatly asymmetrical . |
| 2 | Naturally such an entity would be hard to find , but its gravitational effect would be noticeable . |
| 3 | But new safety procedures had been introduced so such an event could never happen again . |
| 4 | One can only admire Lucie-Smith 's confidence in taking on such an undertaking , but wonder why Laurence King Publishing were keen on this project . |
| 5 | Watergate was to provide just such an opportunity . |
| 6 | Leading and promoting the debate on energy policy that the government wants to stifle , that presents us with just such an opportunity , if we do n't begin to take the fight to the enemy the future is clear . |
| 7 | Care must always be taken , of course , because his opponent may purposely have left the area open to provoke just such an attack . |
| 8 | If due account is taken of the present state of the law in regard to mortgages and choses in action , it is apparent that to make a distinction in the case of land would be to make just such an exception . |
| 9 | This emergency centre in Oxford was set up to coordinate the response to just such an incident . |
| 10 | Indeed , it was just such an incident which precipitated a crisis last week when the High Commissioner for Refugees suspended UNHCR operations in frustration at Serb action . |
| 11 | Almost immediately , the Company Commander committed his third platoon , which had been kept in reserve for just such an eventuality . |
| 12 | They keep a video cassette player nearby for just such an eventuality . |
| 13 | For Simeon Kokhba , it would have been perfectly natural to expect the adherents of an earlier Messiah — the rightful king dedicated to freeing his country from the Roman yoke — to aid him in just such an enterprise . |
| 14 | The economist John Maynard Keynes advocated just such an approach in the Thirties , arguing that during a recession it made sense because there were idle resources available . |
| 15 | If one nest is threatened he will often roll the eggs , one at a time , for quite long distances across the lily leaves until he reaches a reserve nest built for just such an emergency . |
| 16 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |
| 17 | And it is just such an occasion , referred to later , which is the oldest living golfing memory of the Henley club . |
| 18 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 19 | The agreement and friendship between the two men was sealed when the Ukrainians insisted in the toasts being drunk in the special pepper vodka they had brought from home for just such an occasion . |
| 20 | Last Friday night with the RSNO under Owain Arwel Hughes proved just such an occasion . |
| 21 | At the time of last year 's autumn statement , both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were deeply involved in just such an exercise . |
| 22 | The threat comes from Germany , whose deeply green environment ministry has imposed just such an obligation . |
| 23 | That I felt you should know your position if just such an event as this occurred ? ’ |
| 24 | One visitor to India reported on just such an event which occurred in the Bombay presidency at the end of Victoria 's reign : |
| 25 | An example of just such an issue was provided by the controversial case of Bushell v. |
| 26 | Members of just such an organisation , the European Communities , saw the Article as having special application to them . |
| 27 | That patient would need a remedy capable of causing just such an irritability . |
| 28 | The aim of the USRC was to create just such an impression as Disraeli had done — that Unionist action would be worth more than Liberal words — and they often quoted him with pride . |
| 29 | Numerous senior rebels and injured Moderati had committed suicide to avoid just such an outcome … |
| 30 | pouring down with rain it 's it 's just such an effort to motivate yourself to get up |