Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her own parents had played such a game , but in their case it was her father who had played the mild , the foolish role . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July . |
| 6 | Later visitors tended to forgo such poetic forays . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The theme for the weekend of gruelling tests was espionage and all the participants had to tackle such missions as forging passports and assuming new identities , navigating through woods , building a reactor and a boat , as well as finding the spy , code breaking and building a rocket nose cone to confuse the enemy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the science-related ministries and agencies failed to classify such items as ‘ new social infrastructure ’ outside the present budgetary system . |
| 13 | Two years ago , barely two-thirds of top businesses questioned had such policies . |
| 14 | But Carol said she is baffled over how the girls came to have such good singing voices . |
| 15 | In Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , Lord Roskill referred to a risk of causing damage but on the facts that was a relevant risk because a collision between two hydrofoils did create such a risk . |
| 16 | Indeed , while some laptop devices had emerged such as the Cornucopia and the Dynabook , it seemed unlikely that handheld CD-ROM technology of any kind would make much impact in world markets for some years . |
| 17 | But it seems unlikely that many GLC councillors had foreseen such a public debate between different lesbian and gay ‘ communities of interest ’ , when they approved the funding for the centre . |
| 18 | The old oak girders had taken such a clouting |
| 19 | Vacations had proved such a strain that she stopped going home at all in the end , applying for any holiday jobs which offered accommodation . |
| 20 | As newspaper costs escalated and as the nature of the commodity changed politicians and political parties saw their financial grip over newspapers being prised open ; by the late 19th century , newspapers had become such costly ventures that they were beyond the reach of politicians . |
| 21 | The events of that September stopped all new building work and instead the Leaders had to consider such things as provision of black-out curtains for the church . |
| 22 | Since the ladies had expressed such interest in the mountain of Massis , then perhaps … |
| 23 | If the abolition of the B Specials and the other limited interventions had brought such plaudits on the mainland and from Irish republicans , how much more would result from the abolition of the government and parliament of Northern Ireland ! |
| 24 | Although it was decided after all to allow the continuation of school foundations , in many cases the continuity had already been lost ; and by 1550 , when the Court of Augmentations began to fund such foundations , the theory of English educational endowment had entered a new era . |
| 25 | Before the match the Aussies had established such a reputation that people began to believe they were unbeatable . |