Example sentences of "[noun sg] such [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only some over-riding interest in the subject ( including an imposed pseudo-interest such as the imminence of an examination ) , or the desire brought to the forefront of your mind by a growing fascination in what you are reading , will finally shut out the rest of the world . |
| 2 | It could seem as if nothing except attendance at the church 's services divided a pagan intellectual such as the professor Marius Victorinus from the educated clergy of a city such as Milan . |
| 3 | Tutors may wish to explore the effects of uncertainty such as the business closing down , or no longer needing the premises for other reasons , and use this to introduce the idea of the going concern concept . |
| 4 | During His ministry the Lord Jesus often referred to events recorded in the Old Testament such as the story of Jonah , the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and like Peter to the flood . |
| 5 | It is , of course , history that what happened was not a crash programme of chauffeur training , but the lateral thought of do-it-yourself driving — the owner driver with the cheaper and more simple car such as the Model T. |
| 6 | Erm for the females the variance in reproductive success is of the , the differences in the female condition such as the ability to invest in offspring , erm or food producing , but among the males the variation in reproductive success are a function of male competition and female shortage . |
| 7 | This was to get across the important difference between a living enemy , which itself is subject to evolutionary change , and an inanimate non-malevolent condition such as the weather , which is subject to change , but not systematic , evolutionary change . |
| 8 | In the context of the negativity of this formulation , Sartre is obliged to pose once again the problem of whether there can be a totalization , without any independent totalizer or totalizing force such as the dialectic , or whether the structure of negation that he has described means that , as for Adorno or Bakhtin , history does not develop positively but , rather , negatively , and is therefore instead detotalizing : |
| 9 | Although displays of force such as the brandishing of an offensive weapon could be a common law affray , a mere altercation using threatening language could not constitute an affray at common law . |
| 10 | How to cope with the separate issues of the economic recession , the need for major investment such as the electrification of the East Coast main line and identification of those parts of the network or services which needed direct government subsidy , was the overriding concern of the BR Board at that was the problem . |
| 11 | For trekking , I would recommend a lighter weight such as the Link jacket from Karrimor ( £79 ) , which is made from a stretchy fleece called Polarquest , the Ultralite pullover Calange ( £65 ) , which is made from Karisma and weighs only 9oz , or the Panel jacket from North Face ( £63 ) . |
| 12 | The carnivore was probably a medium to small canid such as the jackal ( see also Horowitz & Goldberg , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless in a very large institution such as the University of London , with large and geographically scattered subject collections , a divide and rule system is inevitable , and in contrast to Hindle 's findings , a survey on the ‘ Overlap of acquisitions in the University of London Libraries ’ found that duplication in this kind of situation was in fact relatively small . |
| 14 | One explicit guiding principle of papal teaching which came to influence the Irish constitution and successive debates culminating in the church — state imbroglio of 1951 , dealt with below , was that of ‘ subsidiarity ’ : that no ‘ secondary ’ institution such as the state should take on duties which ‘ primary ’ and ‘ intermediate ’ ones , such as the family , could assume . |
| 15 | There maybe societies where there is a privilege and inequality , but as long as we have in Britain a system where the head of the state , is head of state because the person inherited the position of being monarch and as long as we have a institution such as the House of Lords . |
| 16 | These men could at least enter imaginatively into the spirit of a male institution such as the manyatta : there was something familiar about it all , even if they were not quite sure what , and this familiarity contributed to the ease they felt in the company of the Masai . |
| 17 | Let us consider a single piece such as the edge FR . |
| 18 | A sense of movement may be given by scoring for an instrument such as the harp or celesta which can play scales or arpeggios against the static background . |
| 19 | Passivity and dependence are attributed to us , and our only collective identity is as ‘ the disabled ’ — as tragic individuals who , to a varying degree , are the recipients of care , unlikely to be creative without the stimulation and assistance of others often in an institutional setting such as the day centre or ‘ rehabilitation ’ unit . |
| 20 | It is noteworthy , however , that other white collar crime such as the Guiness affair attracted more public attention and consequently stiffer penalties from the bench . |
| 21 | Almost all the chemical reactions in the cell such as the provision of energy or the synthesis of key molecules will only take place in the presence of special proteins , known as enzymes , which allow the reactions to occur . |
| 22 | It is thereby often based on a childhood authority figure such as the father or mother . |
| 23 | Beyond investigating who engaged in actual plotting , we can examine riots and demonstrations which seem to have had Jacobite overtones , and also look at more individual statements of Jacobite sympathy such as the uttering of seditious words . |
| 24 | Instead most Boards adopted a standard proxy measure such as the number of rooms or the floor area of the domestic premises concerned , and based their standing charges or the charge for the first ‘ block ’ on this . |
| 25 | Rough seas reflect radar signals , producing false echoes which can blind an old radar such as the Type 992 . |
| 26 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 27 | To a gentleman fond of sporting , or a family desirous of a truly elegant abode within a moderate distance of town an opportunity such as the present rarely occurs … , |
| 28 | A problem with camcorders in general is the proximity of the microphone to emitters of mechanical noise such as the camera 's power zoom motor or the auto-focus servo . |
| 29 | It has , however , been argued that certain fundamental Acts of Parliament such as the Act of Union with Scotland 1707 and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be repealed as , in each case , Parliament which enacted the provision is no longer in existence in the same form but has reconstituted itself as a less powerful body . |
| 30 | The verb in a sentence such as The sun shines brightly is not deictic in the sense that the verb to come is , but is nevertheless deictic because it is part of a system which relates specific entities to reference points . |