Example sentences of "[noun] was such [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers could n't be sure radon was such a danger until they 'd built up a complete picture . |
| 2 | ‘ We are expecting about 300 people at the supporters ’ club after the funeral because Dennis was such a character and everybody who went on away matches knew him . ’ |
| 3 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , they still want one , even though Eva was such a disappointment . |
| 5 | I was in love before I left England and the hope of marriage was such a spur that with help from the two Williams , I was able to pass with distinction not only two , but three exams . |
| 6 | Victor Durkacz was such a person . |
| 7 | His proposal was such a departure from traditional Antarctic programmes that three years elapsed before support was provided and field preparations completed . |
| 8 | ‘ This is a country , my dear gentle brother , my dear monkey who sees no evil , hears no evil , speaks no evil , a country of cowardice and brigands , and no one in between , except , and the hero was such an exception he had to be … . ’ |
| 9 | The real reason the normally rabid and vociferous DQ was such a wimp with Phil and Luke Gangsta has little to do with inverse racism . |
| 10 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 11 | The plaintiffs argued that the auditors had to use a basis of valuation which was capable of producing a figure which represented the fair selling value of the shares , and that if that basis were challenged , the court could decide whether the basis was such a basis . |
| 12 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 13 | Fuji was such a race . |
| 14 | William of Warelwast was such a man . |
| 15 | In their eyes , Mark Sanders was such a man . |
| 16 | Lily was such a person . |
| 17 | The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse . |
| 18 | Her mama had said as much , but D-M was such a zeroville . |
| 19 | After last year 's inaugural event was such a success , raising £4,000 , the association decided it should become an annual event . |
| 20 | The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit . |
| 21 | IT SEEMS only yesterday that falsetto singing was such an oddity that mention of it surfaced in a Marx Brothers film in order to give Chico Marx a chance to observe , ‘ My aunt , she got-a falsetto teeth ’ . |
| 22 | The presentation was such a success that SCOTVEC intends to organise similar events for other groups of college staff at venues around Scotland . |
| 23 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 24 | In the first half of this century William Beveridge was such an individual . |
| 25 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |
| 26 | Your father was such a disappointment to her , in so many ways . |
| 27 | The news was such a shock to Mark that he dropped his celebratory drink . |
| 28 | because sh Joyce Grenfell was such a lady , it came through . |
| 29 | Joyce Grenfell was such a lady . |
| 30 | It was evident , from conversations with him at the Kolbitar , that Lewis was such a man , and in version of his Lay of Leithian , the story of how the mortal Beren , returning from the wars , through the forests of Neldoreth , encounters the elfish maiden Luthien and falls in love with her . |