Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] [prep] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a non-separable term such as can be written , where are added as constraints , although the use of such tricks can adversely affect computation time . |
| 2 | If something drastic were not done , then British politics would drift into class antagonism such as could be observed in France . |
| 3 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 4 | Further , the Webbs ' gross failure of comprehension is complemented by their advocacy of an apparatus of state and municipal ownership , and of a bureaucratic management such as might have been deliberately designed not to maximise those chances . |
| 5 | My impression — and without a full inquiry such as might be carried out by the social service inspectorate it can be little more — is that the assessment of the father and his partner had scarcely advanced . |
| 6 | A string such as can be parsed into six different word strings even when the word boundary is known . |
| 7 | Putt tried to reply but the result was a sound such as might escape from the lips of a choking man . |
| 8 | It heralded a flood of Italian imitation such as might be expected of a period when English culture was particularly fascinated by everything Italian . |
| 9 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 10 | This is caused by release of carbon dioxide , which gases off providing there is good water turbulence such as might be provided by a waterfall or venturi . |
| 11 | Here was a face , buried in its cloud of hair , which looked more like a mask than a living thing , a mask such as might be worn on All Souls ' Eve to scare the children , all thickly white with painted black sockets for eyes and a mouth so crudely gashed it was but a slit . |
| 12 | For sons , on the other hand , socialization may be more in terms of broader , more stereotypical notions of masculinity such as may be manifested in horseplay at weekends or evenings , rather than in terms of the more specific feature of the father 's role at work , which may often be hidden from the male child . |
| 13 | To a creamy sauce for white fish such as John Dory , brill and sole , to dishes of molluscs such as mussels and scallops , its concentrated , pungent-sweet and aromatic qualities give a lift such as could hardly be achieved with a mountain of fennel stalks or seeds used in the preparation of the initial stock ( anise is a close relation of fennel , caraway and dill ) , and this in turn gives one ideas as to the use of many other liqueurs , aromatic vermouths , country wines , even drinks such as Pernod and Pastis in the cooking of fish and white meat and poultry dishes . |
| 14 | A court can give or withhold a consent or authority such as might be given or withheld by a patient or a child 's parent . |
| 15 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 16 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 17 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |