Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] such [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But this detail is not of such great import that you should be put off sampling what is a most absorbing set .
2 As yet , coronal images are not of such high resolution as the transverse sequences .
3 The northern slopes of the island produce over half the grapes , but they are not of such fine quality as those of the south side .
4 I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world .
5 The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness .
6 At Arles nearby the screen wall is not in such good condition ; the design is similar but the Corinthian Order is used instead of Doric ( PLATE 26 ) .
7 Judges , it was thought , did not enter into open controversy with politicians , certainly not in such outspoken language .
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