Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Symptoms of rust disease are shown as small , reddish-brown , raised spots on the leaf under-surface , and as control is difficult , it is preferable to destroy such plants including the roots , and to plant new specimens in a different place . |
| 2 | Although it is possible to use such languages as problem-solving ‘ tools ’ , they suffer from the limitation that considerable expertise is needed to use them freely and effectively . |
| 3 | It is possible to use such changes of form to escape from existing snares . |
| 4 | Although our eyes can not detect variations in reflectance in the near-infrared band it is possible to measure such variations using appropriate instruments . |
| 5 | To the extent that it is possible to separate such ideas as surplus value they seem to me totally uninteresting . |
| 6 | It is possible to make such objects invisible to readers if they are irrelevant to the hypertext side . |
| 7 | I should have thought that it would be common ground that it is right to review such organisations from time to time to establish whether they are achieving their objectives . |
| 8 | Sometimes it is acceptable to treat such words or concepts as equivalent to one another , but on other occasions it is important to differentiate between them . |
| 9 | It is wrong to extend such concepts to explain the wholesale replacement of large groups of animals by others . |
| 10 | It is impossible to write such criteria . |
| 11 | It is easy to dismiss such claims as aspirational and self-fulfilling . |
| 12 | However , because fatty foods contain lots of calories in a small space , it is easy to eat such foods quickly , and potentially to put on weight . |
| 13 | It is easy to blur such distinctions . |
| 14 | Through trial and error they learn how and where it is appropriate to express such feelings and when they will be effective . |
| 15 | The reader will probably have some ideas about why this might be , but it is hard to test such ideas . |
| 16 | Besides — and in the way the French Army of those days functioned it is hard to believe such considerations did not pass through Joffre 's mind — if things went badly wrong henceforth at Verdun , the Generalissimo 's responsibility would now be shared by another . |
| 17 | It is natural to borrow such words as " reproduce " and " generation " , which have associations with living things , because living things are the main examples we know of things that participate in cumulative selection . |
| 18 | It is helpful to have such guidelines concerning the types , range and number of concepts to be indexed in any indexing situation , although precise guidelines are not always drafted and the choice of concepts to include may be left to the discretion of the indexer . |
| 19 | The question in the last sentence can not be answered , of course ; it is imponderable and we can go no further with it than to agree that it is useful to expose such uncertainties now and then . |
| 20 | Weigh up the pros and cons ; decide if it is better to accept such invitations or to spend the time doing your own thing , perhaps sharing a mutual interest with one friend . |
| 21 | A prospective Labour government is unlikely to oppose such moves for fear of being dubbed ‘ the pornographer 's friend ’ . |
| 22 | If for any reason your child is unable to achieve such targets , it is important that you explain why to the school . |
| 23 | The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) is happy to file such lawsuits . |
| 24 | It is difficult to dismiss such insights when they come from 81-year-old Drucker , credited with having invented the concept of ‘ management ’ in The End of Economic Man in 1939 . |
| 25 | It is difficult to characterize such relations as ‘ capitalist ’ , or to regard them as oppressive : most of the rich men of the Zuwaya managed their businesses in this way , getting a good return on money laid out , but creating wealth for poorer fellow tribesmen and a few others in the process . |
| 26 | It is difficult to reconcile such findings with Ornstein 's claim that intuitive non-logical thinking is a function of the right hemisphere . |
| 27 | It is difficult to reconcile such references with the tradition of a mild , pacifist saviour . |
| 28 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 29 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 30 | Allowing the taxpayers ' appeal , Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson held that in construing a piece of legislation , reference to Parliamentary materials , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , is permissible where three criteria are met : the legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; the material relied on consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill , together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; the statements relied on are clear . |