Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ . |
| 2 | It had often proven to be a disastrous , or at best weakening , influence upon the stability of the realm , as the inevitable feuds between factions arose from such divisions . |
| 3 | Inhabitants of the worst-hit tower blocks fled with such haste that their washing is still hanging out . |
| 4 | Some of these early nautiloids occurred in such abundance that they are conspicuous enough to form an appreciable part of limestone formations — the ‘ Orthoceras Limestone ’ ( Ordovician ) is one of these , widely distributed through Scandinavia . |
| 5 | The Industrial Research Associations began with such a function in the inter-war period and continue to play a similar role today . |
| 6 | In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , wills show that books such as primers , saints ' lives ( Legenda Aurea ) , Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy and psalters belonged to such people as tailors , grocers , vintners and mercers . |
| 7 | Dedicated work in the nets resulted in such an improvement in his batting that he was among the top five scorers in the Cup with 383 runs at 47.87 , including his maiden century against the Leewards , Curtly Ambrose et al . |
| 8 | For instance , during the hurried preparations for the second Ulster general strike of May 1977 , the loudest protests within the Belfast urban paramilitary organisations came from such persons . |
| 9 | Two important things happened in such systems . |
| 10 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 11 | The alliances and compromises , the sales of offices and titles , all the shifts and feints required of the Crown to secure a continuing coalition had , however , an important adverse effect : corruption , the leakage of the resources garnered with such painful persistence ( and often brutality ) into private hands . |
| 12 | This is causing considerable disquiet amongst TEC Board members who do not wish to see long-term plans hijacked by such short-term changes in the demand for national programmes arising from the recession Many employers are reluctant to become involved either because they have a shortage of work or they can not afford the financial contribution expected of them . ’ |
| 13 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 14 | Polypropylene has replaced nylon in this range and no standard recipes existed for such a blend . |
| 15 | However , STP placed these adverts in such outlets as Business Week , Harvard Business Review , National Geographic , and Time Business Edition , whereas the original misleading advertisements appeared in such consumer-orientated journals as Auto News , Car and Driver , Hot Rod , Motor Age and Playboy ( Ermann and Lundman 1982 : 140 ) . |
| 16 | Suchlike suspicions did not deter prospective travellers from paying the high prices asked for such authentic delicacies ; maybe even encouraged brisker sales . |
| 17 | That the long-term unemployment figures are much lower than they were bears testimony to the fact that many of our pledges and the policies that we have implemented are having a positive effect on the ground in relation to the individuals about whom Opposition Members spoke with such understandable feeling and passion . |
| 18 | Employers complained of such traits as often and as vehemently as they complained of " riotous and unlawful combination " . |
| 19 | Not many patrons wrote with such pomposity , though it was usual in subscription proposals or prefaces to volumes by labouring poets to include a description of the author as hard-working , moral , and content within his or her station . |
| 20 | However , the statistical picture remains somewhat unclear for two main reasons : the data have not always been analysed with sufficient attention to all the possible factors implicated in such over-representation ; there are insufficient provincial data to show how general are the London results . |
| 21 | If one goes far enough back in United Kingdom constitutional history , one comes to a time when neither Lords nor Commons existed as such and when indeed , it was often by no means certain where the Crown should reside . |
| 22 | Guys ' drawings appeared in such papers as the Illustrated London News , a very successful venture begun in 1842 , the decade which also saw the founding of satirical journals like Punch or Kladderadatsch . |
| 23 | There was an electric blower on the dressing table , another on the chest of drawers , two or three bar fires familiar from nursery days ; the fumes from three ancient paraffin stoves hovered in such air as was left . |
| 24 | Fourteen per cent of the sample of deaths occurred in such homes ; this compares with a much lower proportion , 5 per cent in 1969 ( Cartwright et al . , |
| 25 | If on the other hand the signalling cells grew into such a shape that they could come into direct contact with their target organs the chemical signal could be discharged directly at site across the ‘ synaptic ’ gap between the cells . |