Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] such [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did she want to write such weary stuff ? |
| 2 | No car owner can neglect to check such basic safety features as tyres , brakes , oil and steering . |
| 3 | The section could have been summarized in the sidenote as ‘ arrest for non-arrestable offences ’ , but the draftsman did not dare to risk such Kafkaesque accuracy . |
| 4 | Perhaps that is a lesson that , at my age , I should stop doing such silly things . |
| 5 | Occasionally in times of dire need they may rouse a dragon from its centuries of slumber , but only their greatest heroes can aspire to ride such ferocious steeds . |
| 6 | Huy wondered whether that eldest daughter , who worked as Reni 's secretary , had helped him destroy the documents he drew up during Akhenaten 's reign , which would have given such priceless ammunition to his enemies , before turning his attention to the newcomers . |
| 7 | But , then , he could not have foreseen such terrible days as these , when ‘ the contemplation of futurity ’ inspired only fear and dread . |
| 8 | What , she wondered , could have provoked such uncharacteristic behaviour ? |
| 9 | Enterprising landowners may have developed such valuable assets and erected health resorts similar to establishments of recent centuries . |
| 10 | In this environment it is perhaps surprising that the early factories should have received such hostile criticism . |
| 11 | Doctors could buy the much needed equipment , they would n't have to work such long hours , there would be no need to close down wards , aye or even hospitals . |
| 12 | Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run . |
| 13 | Women should never have done such heavy work . |
| 14 | A second possibility is that the male 's spectacular plumage indicates that he is free of parasites , otherwise he could not have grown such superb feathers . |
| 15 | ‘ I should not have made such quick assumptions . ’ |
| 16 | Students shall keep the prescribed terms for their courses and at the direction of the Senate may have to fulfil such additional requirements either in vacation or in intercalary periods as may be specified in course regulations . |
| 17 | Indeed , had abolition/emancipation been the product of economic forces alone , it would hardly have produced such unsatisfactory results in both Russia and the United States . |
| 18 | Moreover we do not have to inflict such pointless treatment on others . |
| 19 | How unexpected , therefore , that Libya should have had such frequent elections — events which are the typical political rituals of party democracies . |
| 20 | Traditional though that activity is of the students of past generations who have gone into the making of the tradition can have had such impressive aids . |
| 21 | ‘ She must have had such high hopes and now they have been dashed . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I would have thought such good sense would have met with your approval . ’ |
| 23 | Oh bloody hell why do they have to put such long words in them ? |
| 24 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 25 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 26 | Curtis Price asks : ‘ would Purcell have poked such cruel fun at one of his chief collaborators ? ’ ; we might add that Durfey was on good terms with Thomas Betterton the producer and Josias Priest the choreographer : a send-up without his consent seems highly unlikely . |
| 27 | Had a system of funding and quality control been merged , I doubt whether the polytechnics could have achieved such high quality and cost-effectiveness . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that IT managers will wish to migrate such large amounts of dead material across computer systems . |
| 29 | Normally common sense and her instinct for self-protection , much sharpened since her disastrous relationship with Giles , would have outlawed such foolish thoughts before they even reached her conscious mind . |
| 30 | It never failed to amaze her that men should even attempt to tell such transparent lies . |