Example sentences of "[prep] such a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buchan , in the heat of the moment , threatened to leave the club after such a humiliation so near his old Sunderland home . |
| 2 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 3 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 4 | Under other constitutional systems , one can detect a vague principle that a parliament can not do indirectly that which it can not do directly , but there is little authority for such a doctrine here . |
| 5 | For such a plan not only allocates land for development but , as a consequence , distributes financial or environment costs and benefits . |
| 6 | So far the company has not registered any enthusiasm for such a payment either . |
| 7 | In spite of her determination to forget the man who had wronged her , never a day went by without her thinking of him , remembering , longing for such a love again . |
| 8 | By contrast , ‘ moral collapse ’ or synonyms for such a phrase rarely find their way into the accounts of the period provided by ‘ liberal-historians ’ . |
| 9 | Arrangements for such a meeting clearly presupposed an unusual degree of party collusion , but Baldwin persisted in expecting no new combination . |
| 10 | For such a task perhaps the term ‘ organiser ’ is sufficient . |
| 11 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 12 | I will emphasize the graphical nature of the Chart data structure , and the usefulness of such a structure both for representing linguistic data , and for analyzing the results of linguistic processing . |
| 13 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 14 | I suspect that a number of Conservative Members support the establishment of such a committee most likely the right Hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Buchanan-Smith ) and the Hon. Members for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale ( Mr. Lang ) . |
| 15 | The essential features of such a system already exist in nature . |
| 16 | Once doubts about the feasibility of such a system finally caused it to be shelved indefinitely , the government sought other ways of extending parental choice , once it had introduced reforms to school government to increase opportunities for parental involvement at school level ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 17 | The organizational complexity of such a state necessarily complicates the implementation process . |
| 18 | The trading consequences of such a development possibly means that the supplier risks becoming a " captive " , subject to a potentially catastrophic threat of the withdrawal of the buyers patronage . |
| 19 | The jury rejected the newspaper 's defence that the ordinary reasonable reader of the " News of the World " would not take the allegations of such a person seriously . |
| 20 | Will the world ever see the likes of such a man again ? |
| 21 | She says it 's great that children from special schools have the chance of such a day out . |
| 22 | Correspondingly , the break-up of such a relationship frequently causes such severe emotional pain that the old addictive substance or behaviour is sought in desperation for its mood-altering effect . |
| 23 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 24 | She had dreamed of such a moment so often . |
| 25 | Chaucer , I assume , would form part of such a programme anyway . |
| 26 | Notice , however , that , while the attenuation of an m-derived section based on a purely reactive prototype would be infinite at resonance , any practical version of such a section actually exhibits strong but finite attenuation at resonance . |
| 27 | The sheer monstrousness of such a reversal simply defied belief . |
| 28 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 29 | An excellent example of such a community today would be the Amish groups of Pennsylvania . |
| 30 | Given present wage levels , investment and productivity levels , the current demand by some of the left for the implementation of such a target over three years would result in a substantial increase in unemployment ( see Frank Field , The Minimum Wage : Its Prospects and Dangers , Heinemann , London , 1984 ) . |