Example sentences of "an [noun] to find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 2 | It is rarely an impossibility to find a third person , and in gusty weather this must make sense . |
| 3 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 4 | One generation had come to understand the trends within the International and the meaning of Stalinism , while another was ready to disregard such questions in an attempt to find a social solution to essentially personal problems " . |
| 5 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 6 | This historic search of 1959 was an assignment to find a Chief Executive for ITT , the powerful but then rather dormant telephone equipment corporation , which had been run by a dynasty of ex-service leaders . |