Example sentences of "such [prep] [noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At low levels of contamination , organochlorines such as PCBs may lower an animal 's resistance to infection , and can be the cause of mass deaths . |
| 2 | Their methods of forecasting the way prices would go proved ad hoc and unconventional , unhampered by hard examination of figures and ratios , such as accountants might undertake . |
| 3 | So you can see why mothers get angry when they discover that even everyday foods such as apples can cause a build-up of unwanted chemicals in their children 's bodies . |
| 4 | But there are also advantages in being small , because small animals need less food , and tiny creatures such as mice can hide from predators more easily than larger ones . |
| 5 | The timing depends on the nature of the goods being advertised , eg seasonal items such as clothes will require a different time-scale from food items , where advertisements may change monthly or even weekly . |
| 6 | The situation was so bizarre , so totally unlike her usual environment , that there was a kind of exhilaration to be found in it , in its very discomfort and danger , such as explorers must feel , she supposed , in a remote and barbarous country . |
| 7 | With its knights and cannons the Empire army would soon sweep aside an army based around boar boyz , while Orc artillery and large creatures such as trolls would present excellent targets for cannons and Helblaster volley guns . |
| 8 | The researchers believe that supramolecular structures such as micelles will prove particularly useful for the study of autopoietic phenomena because they allow extensive variation in structural organisation and can thus have a higher degree of functional complexity , for example being able to act as hosts to guest molecules , such as enzymes . |
| 9 | The populations of invertebrates , plankton , and fish change , and top predators such as dolphins may find their traditional prey disappearing altogether . |
| 10 | Hence a reader looking up the definition of a word such as dogs would find the relevant information stored under the word dog . |
| 11 | Predators such as cats can handle only one duck at a time , so if you are a duck it makes sense to sleep in flocks . |
| 12 | Beyond this depth the compression of solid rock such as silicates can account for the increasing wave speeds . |
| 13 | Unfortunately small animals such as hedgehogs can get entangled in the net , and removing it to pick the fruit can be tricky . |