Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many provisions of the Sale of Goods Act were designed to remedy such deficiencies in the contract . |
| 2 | Under the 1919 Act local authorities were permitted to establish such bodies , and they could be either advisory or executive as the constituent authorities wished . |
| 3 | The cult of relics was important and great churches were built to house such relics . |
| 4 | A number of attempts were made to introduce such courses in the next few years , but as experiments in applied anthropology they were all failures . |
| 5 | Epic poems were sung to commemorate such events as the battles against the Turks during the Balkan wars of 1912–13 and ( shades of Kosovo ) the defeat of the Serbs in 1915 at the hands of the Habsburgs and their allies . |
| 6 | Other ideas such as the problem posed by third world economic development and Douglas 's fears of new technology destroying rather than creating employment were used to justify such policies . |
| 7 | They were used to store such items as candles , dustbins and ashtrays for the Civil Service . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items . |
| 9 | The BMA remained opposed to such appointments but with the national supply of doctors exceeding the amount of remunerative work available , in a society in which relatively few could afford to pay the full cost of treatment , doctors were found to fill such posts . |
| 10 | Speakers were asked to address such questions as : the possibility of delineating a discrete and distinctive popular culture ; the usefulness of conceiving culture as discourse or as an arena of social change ; the forces which engender long-term changes in popular culture . |
| 11 | Thus Æ to Ě they soon were fetchin' Cf. such forms as ÞÆC and ÞECCEAN . |
| 12 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 13 | He was playing a Nubian slave , a centurion and a sentinel in the forthcoming production , each of whom were required to utter such lines as ‘ The sacred white cat has been stolen ’ and ‘ Woe ! |
| 14 | Indeed it was used to teach such pilots as Flt Sub-Lt Warneford who was awarded a Victoria Cross for shooting down the first Zeppelin . |
| 15 | The animals not only provided dairy products , meat , leather and wool for clothing ; bone was used to make such things as combs , weaving tools and netting needles . |
| 16 | By the time Stockport had been settled Lloyd George was moving to prevent such situations from recurring . |
| 17 | In 1526 Wolsey was authorised to make such changes as were necessary to bring English coinage into equality with the principal continental currencies , and coins on the new standard were therefore issued . |
| 18 | After the defeat at Flodden every Scottish Borderer with land above the value of 100 was ordered to build such towers and enclosures to safeguard tenants , workers and livestock . |