Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] such [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Others , also using lacrimal cells , failed to see such an InsP 3 -dependent entry unless they added InsP 4 ( ref. 83 ) .
2 On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest .
3 She tried to imagine such a life for herself , but could not .
4 The indirect mechanism of action proposed to explain such an effect implicates the sequestration of bile acids or other acidic lipids , such as fatty acids .
5 When she had taught Sarah to read and write it had been her textbook , and it would have broken her heart if she 'd heard such a tirade after all her patient teaching .
6 But I say , the , I 'd heard such a lot of the Guild and the Guild 's influence was in Walsall Wood I think primarily , as I 'm always telling the women today , because they were so interested in the village and you got , they were local councillors , magistrates people you went to for advice .
7 I decided I would carry the six-pound loss myself rather than admit to him I 'd made such a fool of myself
8 Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in !
9 ‘ Pure , heady power , to know you 'd caused such a scene . ’
10 And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing .
11 ‘ Not even how you came to follow such a man ? ’
12 As vicar , the Rev W H Dale Chapman owned a piece of land which went down to the lake but , when he began to plan such a service , the idea came to him to follow the example of Christ and preach from a boat .
13 From his papers discovered after the war it would appear that the Admiral began to plan such an attack in earnest about this time .
14 She stopped short just inside the kitchen door , startled and alarmed to see such a change in Elizabeth .
15 He was two-thirds drunk but , there again , I suppose any man ordered to discharge such a duty would need some wine to gladden the heart and dull the brain .
16 The experimental context in which the behavioural understanding of cognition developed involved such a presupposition : we understand the rat 's or the pigeon 's behavioural repertoire because we see it in the context of a physical layout that we take as given .
17 Meredith was fascinated by the brief glimpse into his background , and wanted to ask why he needed to marry such a paragon .
18 Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ?
19 In the warm intimacy of the café Erika felt emboldened to ask such a question .
20 She blushed to say such a thing .
21 But since the data needed to construct such a measure is difficult to elicit and interpret , a more easily verifiable and simpler measure was preferred ; for example a point was assigned for ties of kinship contracted in the neighbourhood .
22 ‘ Simply because he managed to avert such a disaster he was there for everyone to have a go at .
23 It was envisaged by Parliament that the services might be developed in a more selective way , becoming available only to those who chose to have such a facility , and it was contemplated that there would not be the same obligations of good taste and balance that are required of existing television broadcasters .
24 He felt the contact was so invaluable that he was prepared to turn down the job at the head of one of the UK 's premier blue-chip companies if it meant making such a sacrifice .
25 I mean I was appalled because she kept making such a lot of mistakes .
26 I know nothing of such matters ; I thought arranging such a consignment would take less time .
27 Er I myself and many others were here for two and a half years and I submit to you that this is a considerable portion of one 's adult lifetime and consequently , the experiences of the last three days have been very meaningful and very moving to those of us who did spend such a portion of our lives here in this place .
28 In Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , Lord Roskill referred to a risk of causing damage but on the facts that was a relevant risk because a collision between two hydrofoils did create such a risk .
29 If Arcturus did possess such a corona , then the Rosat upper limit would imply attenuation in the range of 10 2 –10 5 , requiring .
30 Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective .
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