Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] such [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands .
2 ( 5 ) 5.85 gives the police power of entry into licensed premises , and makes it an offence to refuse or obstruct such entry .
3 By removing the present focus of much community activity and co-operation , school closure will reduce or eliminate such activities in the future and thus destroy the community itself .
4 Obviously , a lifetime of experience is needed to recognise or remember such minutiae , and most of us will need to fly to our bibliographies .
5 Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind .
6 Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind .
7 Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind .
8 ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’
9 Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things .
10 Running concurrent with this , however , was a belief that the community in the post-war period did little to ensure or support such life styles .
11 In fact what the members of the Committee wished to do was to alter the law , not expressly to encourage or legalise such practices , but to remove them , like adultery and other sins , from the realm of the law .
12 3.11 Any covenant by the Tenant not to do an act or thing shall be deemed to include an obligation [ to use reasonable endeavours ] not to permit or suffer such act or thing to be done by another person [ where the Tenant is aware that such act or thing is being done ]
13 We avoid all invitations to judge or sponsor such competitions .
14 They do not have to be repaid and may be awarded to those leaving hospital or residential care , or to help people to continue to live in the community rather than enter such care .
15 ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . )
16 The penalties against fat women are so extreme that women continue to starve themselves and buy useless diet products rather than endure such humiliation and exclusion .
17 This is because some disinfectants serve to reinforce rather than overcome such scents which are not discernible by our noses .
18 At present , interest earned in this country by overseas nationals is subject to tax but , if a tax haven state was created in Britain , this liability would disappear and make such deposits more attractive .
19 Tradition criticism tries to pin-point and explain such changes .
20 Devise a suitable representation for signed multiple-length binary integers for a computer to which you have access , and write subroutines to negate , add , and subtract such operands .
21 You have to be quick though to beat the sharp-eyed dealers who are there early to spot and buy such things .
22 Provided that where more than one application for a licence has been made in respect of any premises , the licensing board may hear and consider such applications together .
23 And do not such disciplines go further and focus such questions in real-life judgements , decisions and actions ?
24 The study investigates by means of a mixture of systematic observation and simple experiments , those skills that are required to meet the additional demands of multiple-person situations , the intention being to identify and describe such skills and trace their development over age .
25 Geographical Information Systems ( GIS ) are designed to store and manipulate such data .
26 As Italy 's financial year closes at the end of the calendar year and money can not be held over from one year to the next , there is not enough time to distribute and use such funds as have been allocated .
27 Firms which are well experienced in overseas employee transfers often have international personnel departments with the necessary resources to organise and run such training sessions .
28 Many working-class people living in suburban council estates will not have the resources ( e.g. car ) to make and keep such contacts .
29 Most UK universities publicly aspire to such intensive provision — e.g. 1:1 ratio of workstations:academics , 1:4 for research students , and 1:10 and then 5 for undergraduates — but are finding the level of resources required to achieve and sustain such provision very difficult to engineer in an environment of devolved budgets and uneven ‘ soft money ’ distribution .
30 The requirement that member states should co-operate to find and return such objects has also encountered the opposition of the UK and Germany .
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