Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also offer relatively modest time allocations for practical and prevocational subjects in upper primary classes , a feature which may reflect a lack of real conviction by syllabus panels to respond to the political creed that such studies are necessary and profitable for primary level children , but may also be born of a firm realistic assessment of the lack of money and materials to make such studies workable . |
| 2 | If the commercial benefits to Visa of retaining the data do not outweigh the costs of their retention then there can be little hope that such data will be accessible to historians in the future . |
| 3 | The implicit argument is almost a feudal recognition that such land is given conditionally and that where the obligation is broken the gift shall revert , on action , to the donor , founder or patron . |
| 4 | There is some fear that such resistance might pass into weed populations so making both them and " volunteer " crop plants more difficult to eradicate . |
| 5 | We did not suggest in our previous Scientific Correspondence that such trials should not take place ; indeed one of us ( J. R. ) will soon be involved in a clinical trial of MicroGeneSys gp160 in pregnant women . |
| 6 | The public knowledge that such discussion was taking place was damaging enough for Mrs Thatcher ; it was accentuated by signs that there was an active campaign to line up alternative candidates to stand against Heseltine in the second ballot . |
| 7 | A minority of the committee voted against the decision on the grounds that there was no definite scientific evidence that such animals experience suffering . |
| 8 | There is some concern that such schemes could be killed off by privatisation . |
| 9 | Lewis immediately guessed that this suggestion came not from Chavasse but from his Aunt Lily , and in the irrational way that such family meddling irritates , this prompted an extraordinary flow of anger . |
| 10 | It is high time that such comment should be permitted together with the necessary alteration to the words of the caution . |
| 11 | There was undoubtedly seen to be a growing problem regarding adolescent girls because they were maturing a little earlier and marrying later , around 25 , and it was in this context that such horrors as clitoridectomies could be developed . |
| 12 | The issue of " criminous clerks " began to be discussed during the early twelfth century , and by the 1150s in England , there was some acceptance that such men could be tried only by an ecclesiastical tribunal . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there are many cases in which prerogative orders have been awarded against Ministers without any qualm or discussion of the matter ; but it does not follow from this fact that such orders operate as anything other than ‘ requests ’ to act or to refrain from action . |
| 14 | We can not , of course , be confident at this stage that such differences as were found are the product of any one variety of team organization . |
| 15 | It is part of our collective political morality that such compromises are wrong , that the community as a whole and not just individual officials one by one must act in a principled way . |
| 16 | We very much hope that such reforms will underpin the peace process . |
| 17 | Even so , a quarter of the authorities reported to their central body that such incidents had taken place . |
| 18 | But is there any real evidence that such zodiacs are anything more than the product of an overactive imagination ? |
| 19 | He demonstrated that there is an abundance of ‘ remote ’ sites , in contrast to the official view that such sites were increasingly hard to find . |
| 20 | The political embarrassment that such admissions created for the Bolsheviks were smoothed over by presenting the necessity for NEP in terms of an analogy with the Brest Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in 1918 , that is , as being a breathing space . |
| 21 | Deep concern was expressed at the recklessness of the labour group , and the inevitable effect that such expenditure would have upon assessments and rates . |
| 22 | The whiggish notion that such writing might be somehow improved on or even supplanted by the critical mass-production of the anglophone academy is quite self-delusory . |
| 23 | They were dissenters from and critics of the worldly values of power , pleasure , and opulence , and therefore in the long term the creators of the modern secularizing notion that such pursuits are irrelevant to religion and vice versa . |
| 24 | Pupils in most schools spend a considerable amount of time practising the manipulation of fractions , perhaps because of the mistaken belief that such skills are useful . |
| 25 | But the police made no attempt to contact any of them , for the obvious reason that such evidence would have been a severe embarrassment to their preconceived ideas . |
| 26 | But this doctrine has been largely supplanted by a later doctrine that such personality is real , and is analogous to the personality of individuals . |
| 27 | The Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers narrates similar incidents to those in this chapter — underlining the unfortunate fact that such things do happen . |
| 28 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 29 | However , as we have seen , there is little evidence that such poverty did decline in this period ; indeed the survival of more mouths to fed may have increased it . |
| 30 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |