Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democrats in Congress had then been willing to accept such measures provided that the President would agree to more federal funding for local law enforcement and controls on the sale of assault weapons . |
| 2 | In the past , sociologists have been content to dismiss such claims as unworthy of serious consideration for a variety of reasons , some of which have already been examined . |
| 3 | Philip Joseph , chairman of Books Etc , waged a campaign against this practice — or more accurately against the fact that UK booksellers have been unable to stock such books when airport bookshops can — over several years . |
| 4 | Non-Italian artists , non-Italian preoccupations , women artists , artists working in media other than Vasari 's chosen painting , sculpture and architecture , non-Western art and so on : critics have been busy reviewing such areas and , in so doing , producing new categories and classifications . |
| 5 | Liberal historians have been inclined to dismiss such figures altogether , scorning their use as evidence of revolutionary sentiment among the peasantry as ‘ fatuous … street-pamphlet reasoning . ’ |
| 6 | Either they had been obliged to renew such contracts , perhaps several times , and had thus come under pressure to give the workers concerned permanent status , or they had found themselves carrying workers whose fixed-term contracts had not yet expired , despite the fact that they were no longer needed . |