Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Saudis said such a protest was un-Islamic and denied it could have happened . |
| 2 | When asked how important the teachers felt such complaints to be they tended to demur and suggest that though they should be taken into account wherever possible and perhaps explicitly discussed ( ‘ Where are the alternatives , though ? ’ ) , other features of a book deserved more attention . |
| 3 | They say that , as the wars happened such a long time ago we should simply forget about them now . |
| 4 | The sellers had such a term in Butler but were held to have waived its effect , and accepted the buyers ' terms by returning the tear off slip . |
| 5 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |