Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed titles are everywhere in China today , with little trace of the fact that the Cultural Revolution sought to banish such indicators of rank and position . |
| 2 | Mr. Collins sought to accommodate such cases by recognising them as an exception to his suggested rule . |
| 3 | But the science-related ministries and agencies failed to classify such items as ‘ new social infrastructure ’ outside the present budgetary system . |
| 4 | Usually she tried to evade such duties , by hanging around in the bathroom or in her bedroom ; she loathed the tedious , repetitive business of the house . |
| 5 | Again , the Conservative government tried to encourage such activity by enabling them to make one-off tax deductible donations of up to 3 per cent of annual dividends . |
| 6 | We tried to avoid such adventures by sticking to the deeper channels and harbours , but some guests demanded we anchor in the shallower lagoons where the rays glided above the bright sand and the grey snappers schooled and the barracudas patrolled . |
| 7 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 8 | However , a problem arose when one tried to use such theories to construct a model of the atom . |
| 9 | Although the Gothic novel and the Gothic taste helped to give such houses a new lease of imaginative life , they also assisted in their demolition . |
| 10 | The hard-edged anti-romanticism of the 1980s tried to eschew such practices ; but the pendulum may well swing back in the ‘ 9Os . |
| 11 | The mere fact of being on the streets , ill-clothed and ill-fed makes such children criminals in the eyes of the police , and easy targets for death squads . |
| 12 | But it was enormously popular when it first came out in 1764 , and it started a whole train of similar books which even came to include such works of genius as the Brontë sisters ' Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When the time comes to experience the events that Tod 's dreams foretell ( when we find out , for instance , how the baby came to wield such power ) , then maybe I will take it harder . |
| 15 | Here Nicholson came to know such students as Frederick Abel , Fred Field , Charles Mansfield , George Maule , George Merck , Henry Noad and George Simpson . |
| 16 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 17 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
| 18 | Paula certainly never seemed to encounter such problems . |
| 19 | But the strength and resilience of those fascist societies , none of which fell because of internal collapse , and their replacement after 1945 by liberal democratic capitalism seemed to refute such interpretations . |
| 20 | Nevertheless there was one event of this year which seemed to lift such worries front him , and to help cure all his infirmities except that of age . |
| 21 | She seemed to get such delight in removing all those objects from me . |
| 22 | And in spite of , or perhaps because of , this framework , they all seemed to have such fun , such carefree , girlish fun . |
| 23 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 24 | He thus remained an enigma , a man who could not be known as most politicians were known and who seemed to shun such contacts . |
| 25 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 26 | Although Almond and Verba found few people in their survey who actually sought to exert such influence , the proportion who believed that they could exert influence was significant . |
| 27 | The Children Act 1975 sought to discourage such step-parent adoptions and a research project was established to monitor the changes . |
| 28 | Of even greater importance , however , the concept united and ordered so many different facets in observable behaviour of the young and claimed to provide such insight and understanding of their physiology and psychology , in particular the significance of ‘ instincts ’ , ‘ emotions ’ , and ‘ habits ’ , that everything about them , including their wage-earning capacity , could be made knowable and manageable . |
| 29 | The 1944 Education Act claimed to eliminate such inequality of opportunity by making entry to grammar schools the result of an examination open to all via the competition of the ‘ 11-plus ’ . |
| 30 | Collective security necessarily imposed obligations on all nation states , powerful and weak alike , to respect each other 's separate identity and autonomy , and to sanction any member who failed to respect such obligations . |