Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painting cars has become such a complex process that it can account or up to one-fifth of the manufacturing cost of a car . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Schools have welcomed such arrangements with open arms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her own parents had played such a game , but in their case it was her father who had played the mild , the foolish role . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Few countries have shown such a remarkable sense of responsibility to their station buildings as New Zealand . |
| 14 | In recent months , a number of federal judges have taken such a stance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The past three decades have seen such assumptions challenged . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , few literary movements have exhibited such an abiding preoccupation with establishing antecedents in order to defend and define their textual practices . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A moving obituary in the Langport and Somerton Herald declared that ‘ … no death within recent years has created such a universal expression of regret ’ . |
| 20 | Estimates of the Higgs 's mass can be made from the standard model , and the huge amount of data produced at LEP in the past few years has sharpened such estimates up . |
| 21 | The second , however , is that the physical arrangement of grouping in primary classrooms has acquired such a powerful doctrinal status that no other arrangement is even entertained . |
| 22 | Harry slipped the book into his pocket , wondering as he did so which previous patron of the Skein of Geese had handed such a thing on to Heather . |
| 23 | Only a small minority ( 5 per cent ) of all temporary workers had taken such jobs because they were tied to a course of training , and most of these were young adults . |
| 24 | Its distinguished pupils over the years had included such famous names in German cultural life as Klopstock , Fichte , Ranke , and Friedrich Schlegel ; and not the least of its products was a series of remarkable classical scholars , beginning with Ernesti in the early eighteenth century and proceeding through Bottiger , Thiersch , Doederlein , Dissen , Meineke , Otto Jahn , Nauck , Breitenbach , Bonitz and Wachsmuth to the illustrious Wilamowitz , four years Nietzsche 's junior . |
| 25 | In an analysis of the 1987 accounts of 470 banks the Commission had found that the three major banks had used such reserves to cover up losses , and that 46 out of 65 banks , which in fact made a loss in 1987 , had reported profits . |
| 26 | Reviewers have used such phrases as : ‘ An extraordinary , unnerving and unforgettable performance ’ . |
| 27 | Handbags have reached such status symbol heights that many high street chains offer interpretations of such classics as Chanel 's Kelly bag , Prada 's quilted nylon and gilt bag , and Gucci 's print bag . |
| 28 | It 's hard to believe but this river , the Cristolino is part of the same Tappajoss river system where Garrimperos have caused such devastation . |
| 29 | It is partially because of the need to overcome the problems of ocular compatibility that the concept of disposable lenses has found such ready acceptance . |
| 30 | ‘ As so many managers have discovered such players come cheaper than those in the Irish League . |