Example sentences of "[vb past] such a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 2 | Nietzsche 's great book and theory of the superman , has inspired much music — notably the tone poem of Richard Strauss , the enormous 3rd symphony of Mahler and Delius ' Mass of Life , all brought together in this residency of the Netherlands ' Brabant Orchestra , who created such a major impact with their series at the ‘ 89 Brighton Festival . |
| 3 | His action triggered such a massive response from the Carlist movement that Mola had to ask its leaders not to send any more volunteers for the time being , because the Pamplona garrison had run out of rations . |
| 4 | There was no hint of it in the religion of Israel , which maintained such a clear emphasis on the otherness , the transcendence of the Creator God . |
| 5 | Anyone who maintained such a preposterous theory would be considered mad , and rightly so ! |
| 6 | Well , all I can say , with hand on heart , is that I 'm personally very pleased that Fred Weick designed such a safe aeroplane . |
| 7 | And this might help to explain why Gen Robertson devoted such a significant part of his signal to the order that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces " . |
| 8 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 9 | ‘ We became such a strong unit and the experience was very binding . |
| 10 | It became such a tame pet afterwards that she could never persuade it to play dead again , even if she grabbed it as though she were a predator . |
| 11 | The fact that the selection of a style became such a contentious issue can be attributed to his sustained advocacy of Gothic . |
| 12 | It was for this reason that Léon Cohn-Casson became such a fervent advocate of a secular morality . |
| 13 | Centre-forward Tom White was Manager Bert Head 's primary target at Pittodrie , but he brought John McCormick back with him as well from the Granite City for a mere £1,500 — and it was the craggy defender who became such a staunch and resolute pillar of Palace rearguards and helped guide the club through to 1st Division security . |
| 14 | This packaging of living material into discrete vehicles became such a salient and dominant feature that , when biologists arrived on the scene and started asking questions about life , their questions were mostly about vehicles — individual organisms . |
| 15 | Support can be seen in the upsurge of working-class activity that accompanied the strikes of 1978 and 1979 and the way that the union 's leader , Lula , became such a popular figure . |
| 16 | Peter 's Bar may be the reason why Horta became such a popular stopping off spot for transatlantic yachts , and because so many yachts stop there the authorities have built a large marina with every facility . |
| 17 | I did n't know I got I did n't know that I got such a deep voice . |
| 18 | It I think forty five they started negotiating forty five forty to forty seven and er when we tried to alter the national agreement or change it in our minds for the better you always had the solid block of these wee fellows up and down the country sticking by the national agreement because they got such a good deal out of it it brought their standards right up to the the best that was going . |
| 19 | it 's all going ahead they want us in as soon as possible that 's how we got such a good |
| 20 | That 's why you got such a big head ! |
| 21 | It all seems to go back to that morning when Mrs. Millings got such a dreadful shock . " |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe that 's why he got such a lucrative job . |
| 23 | It was n't every day she got such a good-looking patient . |
| 24 | ‘ She 'd recognize you straight away , Jacques , you made such a devastating impression , whereas she 's forgotten me already . ’ |
| 25 | Graham , who made such a tremendous impression in the international series in Worthing this summer when he celebrated his skipping debut with three wins for Ireland , was beaten 20-11 by James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach in the pairs and then lost his fours semi-final to Belmont 's Brian Daly ( 18-7 ) after an extra end . |
| 26 | In assessing why an apparently average side like Warwickshire made such a persistent challenge for the Championship last year , one thing stood out . |
| 27 | Pissarro 's interest lay , however , in the industrial bustle of the city 's south bank which made such a striking contrast to the medieval architecture of the old centre . |
| 28 | He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . " |
| 29 | Sviatoslav Richter ( DG made such a memorable recording of the piece , that others have had an almost impossible act to follow unless they too have had something comparably original to say about the work . |
| 30 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |