Example sentences of "such [noun pl] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 It is assumed , in addition , that all significant propositions , irrespective of their truth or falsity , must in principle be explicable in terms of propositions about such entities as a condition of their significance .
2 The list was so long because he counted every programme over £1m — the previous definition was over £5m — and included such projects as a car park at Medway Hospital in Kent .
3 But such projects and a successful geothermal programme which now accounts for more than 10% of Kenya 's electricity will do little to reduce the oil dependence which helps keep Kenya and many other African countries caught in an energy trap .
4 So great was the prestige of such institutions that a so-called ‘ mitred abbot ’ in Ireland was accorded unusually high official status — a status equal , in the ecclesiastical hierarchy to that of a bishop .
5 Russia has made clear that it would like longer-term credits and money to help finance such programmes as a social safety net for workers who lose their jobs due to the reforms .
6 In the past year-and-a-half , 2,500 Colombians have been killed by such groups and a further 250 have disappeared after being detained by security forces , according to Amnesty .
7 During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level .
8 During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level .
9 De Gaulle saw all such plans as a way to reshape US domination of Western Europe .
10 The day before , after a meeting in East Berlin with his East German counterpart , Horst Kaminsky , Pöhl had criticized such plans as a " fantastical illusion " .
11 Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 .
12 Detectives say they 'd have more chance of solving such cases if a national register of DNA samples was set up .
13 Detectives say they 'd have more chance of solving such cases if a national register of DNA samples was set up .
14 I shall continue to take into account the view of the judiciary on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in such cases as a factor amongst others ( including the need to maintain public confidence in the system of justice ) to be weighed in the balance in setting the first review date .
15 ‘ I shall continue to take into account the view of the judiciary on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in such cases as a factor amongst others ( including the need to maintain public confidence in the system of justice ) to be weighed in the balance in setting the first review date .
16 There is the possibility of a complaint being upheld by the Press Council , which functions in such cases as a poor person 's libel court .
17 Pressure seems to be growing , however , from party conservatives for a review of such policies and a stronger campaign to root out suspected ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ in the government and party apparatus .
18 BC is currently encouraged to adopt a speculative approach when drawing up such maps as a result of the pro-opencast policies in MPG Note 3 .
19 It is quite clear that Rome did not have a policy on catholic schooling at this time , and certainly not one requiring attendance at such schools as a religious duty .
20 As we have seen by all that was covered in Chapter 3 , the technology of multimedia suggests a multimedia environment geared by definition to handling such images and a lot more besides .
21 Given such winners as a guide , betting shops should start a book on the ilk of Hartung and Estève ( if still alive ) , and every contemporary sculptor , however meretricious , bent on an international round ( Jeff Koons for 1993 ? ) .
22 However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies .
23 They viewed such methods as a necessary evil , unavoidable yet somehow beneath their dignity .
24 The blurring of boundaries , which took place at about that time , had created such anomalies as a householder having an Essex postal address while paying his rates to Suffolk County Council .
25 They were closely integrated into the emerging central paradigm of social evolution , according to which the level of sophistication of these objects was held to symbolize the place of such peoples as a kind of fossil record of social development from the primitive to the civilized ( Steadman 1979 ; Chapman 1985 ) .
26 Due to the presence of foreign exchange risk , or simply exchange or currency risk as it is often described , many exporters and importers use the forward market to hedge such risks and a link exists between Eurocurrency interest rates and the forward exchange rate .
27 The regions of England , unlike the nations of Scotland and Wales , do not have their own Cabinet Minister , separate structures or , indeed , such elements as a separate Question Time in the House .
28 Many employees do not worry about such matters until a dispute arises , but the provisions do enable employees and their advisers to obtain details of the main terms of the contract of employment without too much difficulty .
29 I accept a figure of sixty thousand pounds as representing the plaintiff 's notional house in such circumstances and a hundred and twenty thousand pounds as being the probably cost of the bungalow the plaintiff is to purchase .
30 But unless it is possible to escape being moved from other viewpoints , our selfishness can not perfect itself to its theoretical absolute except in such circumstances as a tooth-and-claw fight for survival .
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