Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many others , it too had its great hall in which the classes did sometimes mingle for such festivities as Mr Lyle 's Christmas celebration . |
| 2 | Being British , one would not gush about such things ; winemaker , jazz-lover and poet Andre Ostertag , being French , has no such qualms . |
| 3 | The studies reached a common conclusion that some physical failures or individual errors can be foreseen , and that improved organisation and management should compensate for such errors . |
| 4 | He had not thought it possible that an innocent girl like Cora-Beth could think about such things , let alone voice them . |
| 5 | Nice people did n't think about such things , which was why child-abuse and wife-beating went frequently unremarked . |
| 6 | Men did n't think about such things . |
| 7 | And he , Neil Cochrane , really did know about such Birds of Paradise , for had he not been loved and betrayed by one , and learned his bitter lesson — never to love or trust a woman again ? |
| 8 | But what could a kid know about such goings-on as were chronicled in the pages she had read ? |
| 9 | We do n't know about such aspects of their lives , but we do know what was the main pursuit of their generous leisure hours . |
| 10 | ‘ That woman did not know about such birthmarks . |
| 11 | We are a signatory to an EC agreement which Germany , France and Spain have honoured — the grants given by the EC to areas of industrial dereliction , especially mining areas like Midlothian , which would qualify for such grants . |
| 12 | The remaining deputies would be elected by proportional representation on party lists , on the basis of the number of first ballot votes won by the party 's candidates in the single-member constituencies , and with a minimum threshold of 4 per cent before a party would qualify for such seats . |
| 13 | ‘ That the Directors be and are hereby authorised to establish and to permit the Company 's subsidiaries to establish such employee share schemes as they consider appropriate for the participation therein of employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who are resident or working overseas , and from time to time to make to permit the making of such alterations thereto as they consider necessary or appropriate provided always that the terms of such schemes shall , as far as is appropriate having regard to local circumstances and local taxation consideration , be similar to those of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme and that the overall limits on the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company which may be subscribed for under all the Company 's employee share schemes shall not be increased thereby and that Ordinary Shares which may be subscribed for under such overseas schemes shall count towards such limits . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What do you know of such things as the Via Appia ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 16 | There are , however , other primitive forms of life that can flourish under such conditions . |
| 17 | Disruptive males cause the females to leave the lek temporarily ; when they return , the likelihood that they will mate with such males is increased . |
| 18 | How would the military behave under such circumstances ? |
| 19 | TEC has also indicated that appropriate project work for Employment Action would fall into such categories as child care , you agree with child care presumably , energy conservation , you agree with energy conservation , environmental issues , security , tourism . |
| 20 | This same point was made earlier during the discussion of general applications , and examples were given of how it can assist with such things as planning , exploring relationships , putting particular aspects of an organisation into context , etc ; in other words , using it as a basis for creative thinking and logical deduction . |
| 21 | Family planning and health programmes should focus upon such women to gain their acceptance of family planning and their understanding of its benefits for themselves and their children . |
| 22 | New care management systems of assessment without provision do not rest easily with training which has equipped the worker to provide direct care , and there is some evidence that workers find the disincentives so great that they will resign from such posts ( Huxley and Kerfoot , 1992 ) . |
| 23 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 24 | Mixed farming , peasant agriculture , especially that of commercially-minded rich peasants , could flourish in such situations . |
| 25 | Governments should concentrate on such matters . |
| 26 | The project will focus on such issues as the business origins , form of economic activity , industrial strategy , links with foreign capital for each capitalist group . |
| 27 | No , she must n't think of such things again . |
| 28 | Security , a sense of belonging , family life , being loved and loving , are benefits which we hope a child will achieve through such placements and which will be put alongside the other important need to be met by any placement , the child 's need for a sense of his or her own identity . |
| 29 | The Revenue , as already mentioned , can choose between such Cases . |
| 30 | The first step in reclaiming these spoil heaps was to find Plants that would grow under such conditions and that would resist erosion from the steep slopes . |