Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] such " in BNC.

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1 Further , can we expect states to agree to accept such a system , particularly with compulsory reference to international courts and mandatory application of their decisions , even if there are not sanctions attached to non-adherence ?
2 Painting cars has become such a complex process that it can account or up to one-fifth of the manufacturing cost of a car .
3 He presents a table containing 21 health care interventions ( see table ) and writes : The methods used to produce such estimates are crude but do facilitate the production of a ‘ league table ’ which ranks the cost of producing a QALY by investing in competing treatments .
4 It also proposed granting $200 million to school districts already operating a voucher system allowing parents to choose between schools , and $30 million to those districts intending to establish such a system .
5 It does not help when tutors attempt to compare such skills to riding a bicycle .
6 6 IN THE EVENT of the Publisher being involved in or threatened with legal proceedings arising from the publication of the Work , the Authors agree to provide such assistance as may be requested by the Publisher PROVIDED THAT the Publisher shall provide the Authors with a satisfactory indemnity as to costs whenever assistance is required for proceedings brought or threatened in circumstances where the Publisher is unable to recover under the warranty and indemnity in clause 5 .
7 As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year .
8 Schools have welcomed such arrangements with open arms .
9 It may be preferable to be silent regarding the date for expressions of interest until such time as a number of parties have expressed such interest .
10 This explains why so many of the eye-spots on the bodies of prey animals have evolved such a subtle and complex degree of mimicry .
11 Yet sound will always be part of any future media , and I am pleased that sound recordings have reached such high technical and aesthetic standards after only one century of history .
12 So far , only six NHS trusts have introduced performance — related pay for nurses but it is clear almost all trusts want to introduce such a system .
13 If ordinary newsagents want to display such material , they may only do so in a specially marked-off section of the shop , according to the Indecent Displays ( Control ) Act 1981 .
14 However , although many policy prescriptions are based on models estimated using such data , for example in taxation and labour supply , the properties of estimators for these models rely heavily on strong and usually untested stochastic assumptions .
15 Mutants which lack the glucose receptors fail to show such behaviour , even though they will continue to make use of the glucose as an energy source if placed directly in contact with it .
16 My parents had attended such feasts when thousands , entering in relays , gorged on raw meat , hacked in turn from the bleeding carcases of oxen carried on poles past rows of squatting men .
17 Her own parents had played such a game , but in their case it was her father who had played the mild , the foolish role .
18 She finally received the money , but now the Conservatives wish to obstruct such people in their pursuit of backdated benefit .
19 But only about 170 Arabs had claimed such compensation in five years ; making a claim in the Israeli courts means recognising the state of Israel .
20 It may be a fairly accurate description of press philosophy and practice in Ethiopia , Mozambique and Angola , yet few other countries have engendered such an ideologically coherent , centralized role for their media .
21 All industrial countries have experienced such a transition from high to low birth- and death-rates in the last century , usually ( except in France ) with an intervening period of moderate population growth when the death-rate falls before the birth-rate .
22 But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports .
23 Few countries have shown such a remarkable sense of responsibility to their station buildings as New Zealand .
24 The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July .
25 In recent months , a number of federal judges have taken such a stance .
26 Later visitors tended to forgo such poetic forays .
27 In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work .
28 The past three decades have seen such assumptions challenged .
29 Nevertheless , few literary movements have exhibited such an abiding preoccupation with establishing antecedents in order to defend and define their textual practices .
30 Meant to be striking , it is reserved to depict magic or the supernatural , both within the action when magic powers are exercised , and also between acts to help set such scenes .
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