Example sentences of "[det] as [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of which type of cell is most likely to give the desired result remains unanswered , but work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter . |
| 2 | If the wretch was n't free to have his way with helpless women , then tragedies such as ours would not occur . |
| 3 | We pointed out that in Holland , America , Scandinavia , Canada or Italy a unit such as ours would receive support from the national aid ministry . |
| 4 | In the 1990s this is the way a modern multinational company such as ours must operate ’ . |
| 5 | A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency , to put every penny of your subscription to good use . |
| 6 | Charles Donmall , in this period the secretary of the BBBC , justified the discrimination by pointing out that : ‘ It is only right that a small country such as ours should have championships restricted to boxers of white parents — otherwise we might be faced with a situation where all our British titles are held by coloured Empire boxers ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , p.340 ) . |
| 7 | In conditions of rising population , such as we may assume for most of this period over most of Europe , land is scarce and labour plentiful , and the lords may commonly compel land-hungry peasants to accept their terms . |
| 8 | Yet it is not the reality of a naturalistic drama , such as we would find in , say , Ibsen or Chekhov . |
| 9 | Sentences in the deductive mode sometimes contain deductive markers , such as we can tell that , know that , think , must , might , or perhaps . |
| 10 | Calvados is n't always easy to come by in this country and such as we can get is usually one or other of the commercial brands which in spite of their high prices are pretty crude . |
| 11 | Apparently he was getting a divorce , and Rosemary was already planning the wedding and her honeymoon trousseau — such as it would be in those days of strictly limited clothing coupons . |
| 12 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 13 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 14 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 15 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 16 | We have few secondary schools such as I used to teach in nowadays . |
| 17 | Goodness and integrity such as his will not pass without widespread grief . |
| 18 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 19 | A love such as his could never be ‘ untimely ’ and ‘ indelicate ’ . |
| 20 | Ordered , That the Votes and Proceedings of this House be printed , being first perused by Mr. Speaker ; and that he do appoint the printing thereof ; and that no person but such as he shall appoint do presume to print the same . |
| 21 | This is very astute criticism of Yeats : but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely . |
| 22 | Why the horror , why the compulsive fascination , by what despairing route had this new and unexpected compulsion carried him through semi-tropical plants in a glass lift to an afternoon such as he would sworn never to attend — he did not know . |
| 23 | He has a tutor , a retired teacher who visits the house for mathematics and is following a traditional and largely irrelevant course in it ( such as he might be following at school ) and he is learning quite sufficient about mathematics in context apart from that ( shades of Cockcroft ! ) |
| 24 | Sole has retired from rugby at the age of 30 , when prop forwards such as he should just be coming to their prime . |
| 25 | Such as he can not comprehend that which prompts others to give their heart free rein ! |
| 26 | ( 1 ) This chapter is not written in a standard academic register ( such as you might use in an essay ) . |
| 27 | If you are making your own pasta , use a strong flour , such as you would have for breadmaking . |
| 28 | Accounting software has traditionally been the province of the DOS aficionado — there 's not a great welter of Windows products such as you would find with , say , word processing or graphics packages . |
| 29 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 30 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |