Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication is that responsibility for running vocational courses will rest with colleges , who will themselves apply to the funding council for money to run such vocational courses . |
| 2 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 3 | Mainly used for reference works such as dictionaries , encyclopedias , etc . |
| 4 | More useful criteria would be the type of decision made such as policy or routine ; or type of situation such as whether a crisis is likely to affect a large number of employees or a few ; or whether the problem is a short or long term one . |
| 5 | ‘ Never before ’ , wrote Joseph Husband , ‘ had such a car been seen ; never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence . ’ |
| 6 | You may of course decline such up-dates . |
| 7 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 8 | Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war . |
| 9 | Well we might consider frenzied and suspect — ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees ’ , though we must be careful of course because in the formal style of Paradise Lost such opening addresses are common . |
| 10 | The state of confusion surrounding such issues was such that he was obliged to allow forty days ' grace to many of his ninety or so loyal vassals assembled at St Sever in September 1273 , so that they might consult their title-deeds , old charters , relatives and aged kinsmen . |
| 11 | The low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 12 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 13 | But Dr Kumar said the codes of practice covering such letters needed to be urgently re-examined . |
| 14 | An atmosphere of carnival surrounds such a tree . |
| 15 | Where he was injured as a result of equipment having such a defect , he had the onerous task of suing the manufacturer of the equipment under the defective products rule . |
| 16 | The service is for the collection of HOUSEHOLD WASTES such as paper and packaging , ashes and cinders , food scraps , dust and normal household rubbish . |
| 17 | Yet there is nothing inherent in the nature of work to produce such responses . |
| 18 | It was something he still intended to do , but he felt he should be at a peak of confidence to arrange such an encounter . |
| 19 | Avuncular men in their fifties and sixties may not be aware that this term of endearment causes such a reaction ; you could enlighten them by telling them that the form of address is out-of-date and out-of-favour these days . |
| 20 | Taking another paradigmatic kind of sociolinguistic phenomenon , namely the variable phonological realizations associated with social dialects ( see e.g. Labov , 1972a ) , let us ask how our definitions of pragmatics treat such facts . |
| 21 | In any case , the words of Scripture contradict such ideas . |
| 22 | It seems that Constanze supplied Mozart with the sexual fulfilment he needed , and , although rumours abounded at the time , and have continued ever since , that both husband and wife took other lovers , there is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory . |
| 23 | But not all species of dolphin possess such accurate sonar and , indeed , when the water is clear , even the Bottle-nosed dolphin will readily search for fish using only its eyes to guide it . |
| 24 | In French literature lectures , Sartre became more than an academic discovery , though I understand only now why the idea that " the person is nothing else but his freedom " and the revelations of Nausea had such enormous appeal for me . |
| 25 | The first goal seeks to understand mechanisms of learning using such tools . |
| 26 | These specialize in providing hire-purchase finance for the purchase of consumer durables such as cars and electrical goods . |
| 27 | the other question , how seriously do you view the likely impact of the new the budget er change come coming into force in the spring on purchases of consumer durables such as yours bearing in mind your and your customer profile ? |
| 28 | It 's a lot different from living together and my parents are divorced , so I 'm wary because you just do n't know how it will turn out — that bit of paper makes such a difference . ’ |
| 29 | Roughly speaking , children under five or six years often fail to solve problems of comparison containing such terms , while older children evince no such difficulty . |
| 30 | and the report is early warning that based on present level of flow , the volume of traffic using such a bypass would be relevantly low . |