Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The currency convertability restrictions threaten to wipe out the country 's domestic base of small resellers unless suppliers opt to extend credit facilities further , but to date there has been no indication that suppliers are prepared to take such steps . |
| 2 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 3 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 4 | Unless we , as legislators , are prepared to treat such circumstances with that degree of seriousness , rather than allowing fines even in the low thousands to be imposed , we are unlikely to secure the safety culture to which North sea workers are , sadly , not accustomed but are certainly entitled . |
| 5 | The Democrats in Congress had then been willing to accept such measures provided that the President would agree to more federal funding for local law enforcement and controls on the sale of assault weapons . |
| 6 | In the past , sociologists have been content to dismiss such claims as unworthy of serious consideration for a variety of reasons , some of which have already been examined . |
| 7 | People are quick to articulate such criticisms in gossip but even here there are constraints . |
| 8 | Philip Joseph , chairman of Books Etc , waged a campaign against this practice — or more accurately against the fact that UK booksellers have been unable to stock such books when airport bookshops can — over several years . |
| 9 | Most of the time we are able to take such perversity in our stride . |
| 10 | Secondly , the research will assess the school-based experience and training that the students receive in teaching methods in order to determine the extent to which students have mastered an understanding of the nature and development of pupils ' historical thinking and are able to exemplify such understanding in their teaching styles . |
| 11 | Several animals are able to withstand such stings and actually feed on various portions of wasps , bees and their nests . |
| 12 | As chairman of probably the oldest and certainly the noisiest of the Institute 's technical committees , I am able to reassure such doubters ; indeed , the Technical Advisory Committee 's advice is still the foundation of most Institute responses on accounting and auditing matters . |
| 13 | Incidentally , I have never since been able to work such magic ! |
| 14 | More conservative views of the ‘ corporate bias ’ in liberal democracies ( Middlemas , 1979 ) are happy to see such arrangements integrate and discipline the working class , but disturbed if labour movements are better able to redistribute income in their favour or to create disruption in economic life . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much . |
| 16 | However , it should be possible to identify such specimens to genus and often to species from the remaining characters . |
| 17 | However , in practice , depending on the circumstances , it may sometimes be possible to overcome such disclosure problems by giving additional narrative explanations in the notes to the accounts . |
| 18 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 19 | Would the Minister be prepared to back such investment and expanded production , provided that the local Member of Parliament , the hon. Member for Motherwell , North ( Dr. |
| 20 | Whether the Minister likes it or not , we must be prepared to face such competition , because major European contractors are already in Britain , winning contracts and using skilled labour from their own countries in which there is better investment . |
| 21 | It 's not that I wo n't be prepared to face such conditions , it 's just that I realise what could happen . |
| 22 | Few people would be prepared to pay such fees and BGQs would virtually disappear ( arguably a benefit to RBG ! ) . |
| 23 | If it is found to be impossible to reconcile such differences then the public interest and the maintenance of professional standards must be the primary considerations . |
| 24 | If it is found to be impossible to reconcile such differences then the public interest and the maintenance of professional standards must be the primary consideration . |
| 25 | Yet it would be dangerous to regard such divisions as being in any way rigid . |
| 26 | It is submitted that it would be ill-advised to treat such statements made in one House after the Bill had completed its passage in the other House as an expression of the intention of , in the words of Lord Browne-Wilkinson , ‘ Parliament as a whole ’ . |
| 27 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 28 | While this would be possible , it would be hard to protect such rights in any great detail through , for example , some form of constitutional entrenchment since the standard of these rights depends very much on the state of the economy and on demographic factors such as the numbers of elderly in the population ( currently increasing greatly ) and the number of children and the size of the working population . |
| 29 | It was felt that such speed limits were not practical over the wide area that was to be covered by the experiment , and that it would be better to scrap such treatment of individual streets and instead integrate such areas into a widespread system of 30 km/h streets . |
| 30 | It would , however , be encouraging to see such chapters included in nursing textbooks published in UK . |