Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 2 | However , I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way . |
| 3 | Private shareholders in Concorde would have required a high expected return to entice them into such a risky project . |
| 4 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 5 | I have no right to tax you with such indelicate questions . ’ |
| 6 | Although housework is work they say , we would have to turn the ideology of our culture on its head to analyse it in such a manner . |
| 7 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 8 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 9 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 10 | There are also times when meaning derives from deliberate violations — or ‘ floutings ’ as Grice calls them — of the co-operative principle , always provided that the sender intends the receiver to perceive them as such , and that this is how , in fact , the receiver does perceive them . |
| 11 | The ideological demand that communists should seek to improve the accommodation of the people was subordinate to the aspiration to house them in such a way as to make it easier to supervise them and mould them as the Party saw fit . |
| 12 | To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfilment to those who are not so fortunate . |
| 13 | The professionals who rate at their true value the impact and influence of the media productions they create will take particular care to make them of such high moral quality that their effect upon the formation of culture will invariably be a positive one . |
| 14 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 15 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |
| 16 | Vélez was on a list of judges ( jueces sin rostro ) whose identity had been kept hidden in order to protect them from such attacks and to encourage their independence . |
| 17 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |