Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers naturally represented such actions as " unjustified " rather than admit to their remedial nature . |
| 2 | But when anomalous cards were introduced , such as a red Ace of Spades , then , at first , nearly all subjects initially identified such cards incorrectly as some normal card . |
| 3 | ‘ My ears never heard such doleful lamentations . |
| 4 | Indeed , the fact that Conservatives now supported such schemes heightened their suspicions . |
| 5 | Resistance to road- and house-building in richer areas often diverted such developments to more vulnerable districts . |
| 6 | Local authorities gradually developed such services , but the extent of their coverage and the quality of their provision was remarkably uneven . |
| 7 | Conservative governments obviously encouraged such sales as part of their general policy of reducing the size of the public sector . |
| 8 | Since the tendered bills were issued by NVOCC 's , and the NVOCC 's had issued the bills while placing the goods on the first means of conveyance and not on the ocean going vessel , banks either rejected such bills or required additional statements or notations attesting to actual loading on the ocean going vessel . |
| 9 | From time to time discipline required some distance , briefly , to be drawn between the adult and the student but managers deliberately kept such periods short , in order not to dissipate the strength of the group . |
| 10 | At the same time , new administrative and political arrangements effectively reduced such power and influence as woman previously had . |
| 11 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 12 | XI ) between those countries that developed formally rational judicial systems under the influence of Roman and ecclesiastical law , in which the demand for predictability encouraged measures to control judicial discretion ; and countries such as England , in which a historically powerful cadre of lawyers successfully resisted such demands and jealously guarded their traditional independence . |
| 13 | Long after America had thrown off the yoke of colonial rule , Americans still held such a poor opinion of the perfidious English that such a pool shot was also described as Putting on the English . |
| 14 | Some 85 per cent of respondents also reckoned such companies would be good to work for . |
| 15 | The conversation , in which neither Stephen nor Dadda took part , then turned upon whether " danger list " was merely a figurative term or if hospitals actually maintained such ominous catalogues . |
| 16 | The continental spa ( the British ones hardly reached such prominence ) were far more stylish , and therefore provided both more luxurious hotels and the entertainments necessary for such a clientele , such as gambling casinos and rather high-class brothels . |
| 17 | And not just Ford buyers : Options instantly touched such a sensitive nerve that other makers rushed to promote similar schemes . |
| 18 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 19 | That is to say , they will have what the Jesuits once attached such importance to : power over young or impressionable minds . |
| 20 | Of course there is no obligation to use the language of algebra in this way any more than there is to use the symbol x in solving problems involving quadratic equations : as mentioned earlier the Babylonians readily solved such problems writing down everything in longhand . |
| 21 | The early charters of the dukes of Gascony dating from the tenth and eleventh centuries make no mention in their dating clauses of the reigning king of France , and the dukes certainly possessed such rights as the striking of coins . |