Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] such a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already said that a 24-h interval is not enough for such a loss to be seen . |
| 2 | Only through such a position of critical self-evaluation can the restricted epistemological validity of one 's position , and its possible ideological strains , be recognised for what it is . |
| 3 | A first attempt has now been made in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 to remedy this omission ( see below ) , but the fact that sentencers have had to wait so long for such a lead is evidence of a serious weakness in the self-regulatory capacity of the Court of Appeal itself . |
| 4 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |
| 5 | But it is only against such a background , I submit , that the issue of the technological imperative can properly be understood . |
| 6 | For ‘ The great centralized State is a tremendous historical step forward from medieval disunity to the future socialist unity of the whole world , and only via such a State ( inseparably connected with capitalism ) can there be any road to socialism . ’ |
| 7 | It is only with such a system that uneconomic jobs or work types can be identified and stopped for either the fee basis to be renegotiated or the amount of work done reassessed . |
| 8 | The wound was clean and dressed ; there was no point in keeping him inside with such a shortage of hospital beds . |
| 9 | I 'm surprised you lasted so long in such a place . |
| 10 | The disc that slipped had done so in such a way as to be digging into my spinal chord . |
| 11 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
| 12 | Each writer sought to give an overall biblical interpretation of his subject , but to do so in such a way as to be of practical value to modern Christians who found themselves perplexed by controversy on the subject . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if the buyer asks for an article by its trade or brand name and does so in such a way as to exclude any discussion of its suitability , then he is not relying on the seller 's skill or judgment , Baldry v. Marshall ( 1924 C.A. ) . |
| 14 | The establishment of order and civilisation in Ireland ( according to an English model ) is required because only in such a context can nobility , proper religion , and morality prosper . |
| 15 | To persevere with our mechanical analogy , if we picture the forming of a bond as equivalent to putting the jack in the box , we need to bring to the box a special tool with a ready-compressed spring , and couple them together in such a way that , as the spring in our tool is released , it compresses the spring of the jack and forces it into the box . |
| 16 | A team is a small group ( 6 to 8 people is a typical size ) who co-operate together in such a way that they accomplish more than the sum total of the individuals . |
| 17 | The problem is to achieve them together in such a way that the ‘ fusion product ’ , the multiple of all three quantities , exceeds a certain critical value . |
| 18 | The latest announcement in the field is for High Availability Cluster Multi-processing/6000 version 1.2 : software that aims to glue a pair of the machines together in such a way as to combine the benefits of fault-tolerance and symmetric multiprocessing . |
| 19 | However , it is difficult to see precisely how the feature detection and abstract letter detection levels could be linked together in such a way that a letter can be detected regardless of its case of presentation . |
| 20 | The manometric assembly consisted of three polyvinyl tubes bounded together in such a way that the 0.8 mm side hole was 5 cm apart from each other ( Arndorfer Medical Specialties , Milwaukee , USA ) . |
| 21 | Mont Blanc , for instance , consists of many different kinds of rock , all jumbled together in such a way that , if you sliced the mountain anywhere , the two portions would differ from each other in their internal constitution . |
| 22 | We have seen how when the tonic syllable is followed by a tail the tone is carried by the tonic plus tail together in such a way that in some cases practically no pitch movement is detectable on the tonic syllable itself . |
| 23 | Surprisingly , they knew ecstasy together in such a bed , falling asleep in one another 's arms with a renewal of hope . |
| 24 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 25 | No council could continue for long on such a basis . |
| 26 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 27 | ‘ I just thought it was a shame to go inside on such a night as this , ’ he continued , ‘ so I persuaded Will to partake of my company for a while . ’ |
| 28 | All around such a site there would formerly have been fields and other areas of land use . |
| 29 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 30 | In many ways it was an advantage to work broadly with such a mass of detail — cranes , windows , cars and a myraid of tower blocks . |