Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of such a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 2 | I had not thought of such a thing . |
| 3 | She found the whole thing very embarrassing and had tried several times to back out of it , but Felipe would not hear of such a thing . |
| 4 | The best known of such a transformation is probably that for turning Celsius temperature into Fahrenheit where F=32+9/70C , or , for another example , a conversion formula for turning imperial weights into metric ones . |
| 5 | " In Christ 's name , who 's ever heard of such a place ? " |
| 6 | I wondered if you ever heard of such a thing ? |
| 7 | We are with them constantly seven days a week and each day that passes it becomes harder to comprehend that they were ever convicted of such a crime . |
| 8 | If the adventurers just sit there taking every abusive comment the puppets cast their way , the puppets eventually tire of such a tedious audience and attack — a Fire Ball being followed by a physical assault en masse . |
| 9 | I am dumbfounded you should even think of such a thing with that lovely new cream gown hanging in your wardrobe and I should have been so happy to lend you my pearls . |
| 10 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 11 | Some may indeed dream of a united Germany : few believe it is politic to speak or even think of such a thing . |
| 12 | ( We might indeed say of such a theology that it was a Jesuology , rather than a Christology ; and Christianity has , at its worst , we may think , come to resemble this . ) |
| 13 | You must never think of such a wicked thing again . |
| 14 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 16 | The local man said he 'd never heard of such a thing . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 18 | Never heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 19 | We had never heard of such a thing ; and apparently it had only recently been catalogued , after a spate of Australian deaths on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 20 | I have never heard of such a thing in all the worlds . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 22 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 23 | ‘ I have never heard of such a potion . |
| 24 | We had never heard of such a ferry , nor has the local history department at Liverpool Central Library . |
| 25 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 26 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 27 | I had never dreamed of such a thing . |
| 28 | ‘ I never heard of such a dreadful thing ! |