Example sentences of "it [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 . |
| 2 | Rose said it with such empathy that all criticism was stopped . |
| 3 | Left at the side of the rutted washboard that has claimed so many victims , it was a poignant reminder that the desert takes a dim view of those who treat it with such disdain . |
| 4 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 5 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 6 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 7 | They did it with such tenderness that I gained new strength from their friendship , suddenly seeing the value in continuing , if only to deepen that shared bond . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 9 | No questions , no but you 've obviously covered everything , you talk about it with such enthusiasm . |
| 10 | And she said it with such pride and such display that Clara did not feel at all obliged to conceal the amazement and delight that she felt , as she might , if confronted with a more worldly modesty , have done : for Clelia 's manner declared , this is singular this is beautiful , this may legitimately amaze , you betray no innocence in admiring this . |
| 11 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 12 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 13 | And how strange it was that , after all these months of resolutely not thinking about her old life in the States , she should begin to remember it with such pleasure ! |
| 14 | Yet once he had started he applied his mind and industry to it with such vigour that he had mastered more books in that short space than any child before or since . |
| 15 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 16 | People were totally amazed that , in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century , someone could be living in such materially deprived conditions , alone , with no water on tap and no electricity , on an income of barely £5 a week — and that she could rise above it with such dignity , inner tranquillity and gentle philosophy . |
| 17 | Not all approached it with such seriousness . |
| 18 | Certainly , there would need to be sound reasons to pursue it under such circumstances . |
| 19 | Now , the final point I want to make in this little section , and I think Liz is going to help me make this point , and that is that one of your problems , which is not a big problem compared with some organizations , is you 've got to take what you 're doing , and repackage it in such way that it is of interest to ordinary people . |
| 20 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 21 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
| 22 | For present purposes it does not matter whether the court has no power to order specific treatment to be given contrary to the doctors ' will or has power but will in practice not exercise it in such circumstances . |
| 23 | I seek guidance , never dare I offer it in such matters . |
| 24 | This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general , ahistorical terms . |
| 25 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 26 | Her family 's history , although nobody has recorded it in such detail , seems to have been almost as adventurous as that of the Crankos . |
| 27 | The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century . |
| 28 | Rather it is couched in absolutist terms that reify literacy as though its very essence were being described and that unjustifiably relate specific cultural manifestations of it to such universals as logic , abstraction etc . |
| 29 | ‘ How does a large industrial country , such as the UK rebuild and expand its industrial base , and correct a worsening balance of trade in manufactured products , if investment location decisions by the multi-nationals go against it on such grounds ? , |
| 30 | The court may , if satisfied that sufficient grounds are shown for the appointment , make it on such terms as it thinks fit ( r6.51(6) ) . |