Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb infin] such a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complexities of this network must be understood , and will be explained more fully in Chapter 7 together with suggestions on ways social workers may help to sustain or develop such a network . |
| 2 | This pagan kingly behaviour ( more reminiscent of ancient kingship rights than orthodox Christian behaviour ) gave rise to criticism from the Church , but no one dared openly to accuse or chastise such a powerful ruler . |
| 3 | Recent cases , where health authorities have overspent , have usually stemmed from a failure to properly install and operate such a system . |
| 4 | ‘ Why should you dare to try and strike such a bargain ? ’ she demanded frustratedly . |
| 5 | ‘ So it did , as it was meant to do , but I did n't expect or want such a drastic test . ’ |
| 6 | And , as we have already seen , it is the Bible 's function to feed and foster such a relationship . |
| 7 | It recommended that the honours course for full-time students should be four years in length , and it called on the DES to explore and resource such a departure — which was eventually to prove to be the pattern adopted . |
| 8 | After the talks Goh said that the Sultan had shown considerable interest in joining the FPDA , and that Singapore would welcome and support such a move . |
| 9 | ‘ Rather silly of me , was n't it , to go and make such a careless mistake ? ’ |
| 10 | It is not enough for the Commission merely to show that the merger will create or strengthen such a market position if the maintenance or development of effective competition would not be likely to be impaired . |
| 11 | Who can plumb and penetrate such a person ? |
| 12 | How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate . |
| 13 | To build and operate such a chemical time bomb in this densely populated conurbation would be an exhibition of social irresponsibility beyond comprehension . |
| 14 | At the time , descriptive geology could ignore or deny such a theory , by postulating the existence of land bridges and sea-level changes which permitted the movement of organisms between continents . |
| 15 | It would constitute a typically academic fallacy to believe that analysis on its own — the sheer power of thought — could change or reverse such a situation , but it could well affect it . |
| 16 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 17 | High levels of public violence eventually forced the US ‘ occupying forces to take the necessary steps to control and remedy such a deplorable situation ’ ( Yamamoto 1981 p.30 ) . |
| 18 | Nobody can really comprehend or imagine such a large number , and we just think of this degree of improbability as synonymous with impossible . |
| 19 | This is not faking , however , because waking subjects know perfectly well a child can not write or spell such a sentence . |
| 20 | This is not enough to show that anyone can have authority to introduce or enforce such a scheme . |
| 21 | How could he forgive or forget such a slight ? |
| 22 | He was rather proud of himself for being able to visualize and draw such a convoluted position . |