Example sentences of "[pron] is such a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 2 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 3 | But how can land use planners reconcile this with the protection of the historic City with its scale and unique environment which is such a magnet to international service firms . |
| 4 | The Department of the Environment has circulated a small leaflet : ‘ How to help prevent it ’ dealing with the winter-time pollution which is such a threat to road usage . |
| 5 | I know how much thought and care you have expended on this wonderful work of art which is such a joy to look at , and I , as the proud possessor of this house , can never be sufficiently grateful to you for having given so much of your time in order to give me pleasure . |
| 6 | The criteria will ensure that the National Certificate 's flexibility , which is such a strength of the system , is not lost and will establish the ground-rules for negotiations with industry bodies . |
| 7 | Which is such a shame because like , we all , wi , we all get on really well with William . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll have to make adjustments , but theirs is such a rugby culture that they 'll spare nothing . |
| 9 | Indeed she is such a kind and caring person that colleagues have questioned whether she is sometimes too subservient to her officials . |
| 10 | She is such a hypocrite . |
| 11 | She wrote to us in July , and we were delighted to hear from her , but she is such a roamer that I do n't feel confident in replying to the address she gave then . |
| 12 | Somehow , Reg Pybus , who is such a square he even has a mono Walkman , refused to drink with the match only hours away , and so managed to get the team into their kit and out on to the pitch . |
| 13 | There is now authority that , at least where the harm is interference with trade or business , there is such a tort . |
| 14 | So the third factor was friendship or , if there is such a word , colleagueship . |
| 15 | With great difficulty I have ‘ unplied ’ the end ( if there is such a word ) and sure enough , there are four strands wound together . |
| 16 | Your friend there is such a person as I describe : a war criminal with more murders of children than I would care to name upon his conscience . |
| 17 | A more or less permanent steam column will soon establish itself , and a Surtseyan eruption ensues , with ejected material accumulating on the sea floor until there is such a pile that the top of it shows itself above sea level , and an island is born . |
| 18 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |
| 19 | ‘ We have been looking at the pictures of James and we are really upset because there is such a likeness . ’ |
| 20 | There is evidence that there is such a bias ( Satz , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | There is such a trajectory in theory , but it passes through intermediates that would have been — in the short term , which is all that matters — unsuccessful if they had ever been called into existence . |
| 22 | To meet the needs of pupils growing up in such an environment , RE must not assume any religious faith — it has to start much further back with questions of why there is such a phenomenon as religion . |
| 23 | In addition , because there is such a lack of water , the total biomass is low . |
| 24 | ‘ These days , ’ disapproved Mrs Rundle , ‘ there is such a lack of contact within families ! |
| 25 | There is such a variety of good literature available for inclusion in syllabuses that we want teachers to have the freedom to make their own choice of suitable books within our broad guidelines . |
| 26 | There is such a variety of textured yarns available today that it would be a pity not to be adventurous with them . |
| 27 | They are all great prospects , not just for Lancashire but for England , and I do not see the point in getting depressed when there is such a wealth of promise for the future making its presence felt in the club . ’ |
| 28 | The suggestions of homosexuality are , however , only one aspect of the attempt to discover some " mystery " which he wished to conceal ; and , in fact , the belief that there is such a secret has been largely provoked by the innate secretiveness of his own temperament . |
| 29 | Often , there is such a measure . |
| 30 | Indeed there is such a proof . |