Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] such [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valium , therefore , is frequently prescribed for problems such as loneliness and marital discord , the latter interestingly considerably more evident in female than male section referrals in our study . |
| 2 | 7.3.3 against damage or destruction by the Insured Risks to the extent that such insurance may ordinarily be arranged for properties such as the Centre with an insurer of repute and subject to such excesses exclusions or limitations as the insurer may require It may be advisable to provide that the insurer should have principal offices in the United Kingdom , but this is no guarantee that the insurer will not succumb to liquidation or contest claims , and one wonders whether this would find favour with our European partners . |
| 3 | 7.3.3 against damage or destruction by the Insured Risks to the extent that such insurance may ordinarily be arranged for properties such as the Centre with an insurer of repute and subject to such excesses exclusions or limitations as the insurer may reasonably require |
| 4 | Advice and protection were more commonly given for diseases such as tetanus and malaria than for sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhoea and syphilis ( table ) . |
| 5 | Customers are predominantly members of the public , but some contract work is also undertaken for bodies such as local authorities . |
| 6 | This little Hampshire market town had not been designed for crowds such as these , and everyone kept on getting in everyone else 's way . |
| 7 | As a way of emphasizing the first charge , TV commercials were run , including clips from old Reagan films embellished with slogans such as ‘ Vote for a real governor , not an acting one ’ , or ‘ Over the years Ronald Reagan has played many roles . |
| 8 | The washed and marked finds are then sorted into groups such as sherds of coarse pottery , sherds of glazed pottery , all the prehistoric worked flint , and so on , and are studied by specialists who prepare reports on them . |
| 9 | This is particularly useful where the bodies have to be grouped into categories such as male/female , child/adult , or even into groups with different racial or familial origins . |
| 10 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 11 | During the following week disturbances were reported in places such as Handsworth in Birmingham , Sheffield , Nottingham , Hull , Slough , Leeds , Bradford , Leicester , Derby , High Wycombe , and Cirencester . |
| 12 | Events at Three Mile Island and more recently Chernobyl were considered alongside accidents such as Kings Cross , the Clapham Rail disaster , and the capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise . |
| 13 | ‘ Lines Written at Shurton Bars ’ shows Coleridge progressing rapidly from the bland natural description contained in poems such as the one he had written in May ‘ while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb ’ , and opens the way to the ‘ Conversation Poems ’ of the following three years , where feelings of friendship and love — for Charles Lamb , the Wordsworths , his infant son Hartley — stand in close and creative relationship with luminous descriptions of nature . |
| 14 | Communities of fish and invertebrates are attracted to structures such as oil platforms and nuclear waste dumps . |
| 15 | Yet the actual educational work of the project was , as indicated above , very vocational and recreationally oriented ( in the traditional sense ) and confined to subjects such as ‘ O ’ levels , Typing , Dressmaking , Car Care , Home Maintenance , Conversational French . |
| 16 | Such humour even stretched to the envelopes , and those addressed to friends such as Clive Bell often had on them verse instructions to the postman . |
| 17 | Sheriff Crozier said : ‘ In over 40 years , I have never come across behaviour such as yours . ’ |
| 18 | Targeted at species such as Norway pout and sand-eel , the operation undoubtedly also destroys large numbers of immature fish of other kinds like cod , whiting and haddock . |
| 19 | This device will be targeted at applications such as character recognition , process control , signal processing and neural learning . |
| 20 | The system is targeted at applications such as banking and catalogue sales . |
| 21 | They face a prime minister , surrounded by figures such as Chris Patten and Michael Heseltine , who shows an appetite for developing Toryism beyond the agenda it had in the 1980s . |
| 22 | Whatever the reason , it is recognized that stressed trees then become vulnerable to further damage through drought , wind damage ( through weakened root systems ) , snow damage ( the brittle tops of trees snap beneath the weight of snow ) , frost , insects ( e.g. the bark beetle is attracted by chemicals such as terpenes given off by stressed trees ) and needle fungal and virus attack . |
| 23 | They have been attracted by features such as those shown in this photograph and those on pages 28(F) and 35(A) . |
| 24 | Most would be owned by investors such as leasing companies , financial institutions and investment portfolios . |
| 25 | Schools are often approached by firms such as Webb Ivory to sell Christmas cards on a commission basis and this can be a good boost to funds . |
| 26 | With a growing number of nuclear power stations ( the old Magnox reactors such as Calder Hall in Cumbria or Wylfa and Trawsfynydd in North Wales being supplemented by stations such as Sellafield , despite the opposition of environmentalists and the anti-nuclear lobbies ) ; with hydroelectric power in the Scottish Highlands and North Wales ; and a still important , if aged , coal industry , together with another huge energy bonus in the shape of North Sea gas , Britain 's energy position seemed remarkably secure . |
| 27 | It is only occasionally , as in the case of Fowles or Durrell , for example , that postmodernism has generated the kind of respect and popularity enjoyed by authors such as Thomas Pynchon , Italo Calvino and Gabriel García Márquez . |
| 28 | The key language of each unit is presented through situations such as booking flights , comparing hotel facilities , or attending a job interview . |
| 29 | The National Union of Teachers claimed the results had no real value as no allowances were made for factors such as the number of pupils with English as a second language . |
| 30 | In determining an appropriate dividend yield , regard should be had not only for comparable public company yields but allowance should also be made for factors such as non-negotiability , dividend cover , asset backing etc . |