Example sentences of "[conj] find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDonnell Douglas has put its wholly-owned McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company ( MDH ) on the market , either for outright sale or to find a joint venture partner to provide development capital . |
| 2 | I meant to try again and better , either to get at him , or to find a messenger who would carry word to Harry inside Parfois . |
| 3 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 4 | or found a settlement |
| 5 | Or find a deposit . |
| 6 | Getting a six foot six quilted rug in a domestic washing machine is often impossible ; the only answer is to wash it by hand in the bath ) and hope that you can clean it out before the rest of the family notice ) or find a launderette that will accept horse rugs . |
| 7 | Or find a creative outlet ? |
| 8 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 10 | Perhaps you can strike a deal with an estate agent for temporary use of an empty shop space , or find a suitable display area in an hotel , a restaurant or a theatre . |
| 11 | However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness . |
| 12 | Or find a hotel . ’ |
| 13 | Others with no cars walk through the streets or find a near-by park . |
| 14 | The sort of ghost everyone knows about is the sort who goes haunting because he 's trying to get a lifer to do something for him , like revenge his horrible murder , or discover the hidden treasure , or find a will that 's been lost . |
| 15 | They would be from Canada , from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might put up various old acquaintances passing through London , or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy , not so very much older than Martha , whose father was a kind of Count , but was also in the import-export business , or try to recall a splendid person , the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very , very sad story . |
| 16 | What does it matter to you if I never remarry or find a new father for Emily ? ’ |
| 17 | We find the world nearly empty of images and accounts with which we can prepare ourselves or comfort ourselves , or find a mirror of our exaltation or grief . ’ |
| 18 | In earlier times the judge would rule on the sufficiency of the provocation , and the result of this was rather narrow and legalistic categories of sufficiency ( e.g. violence or finding a spouse in adultery were enough , but words or a confession of adultery were not ) . |
| 19 | They are not generally common fossils , but there is always a chance of turning up a skeleton from the coal deposits , or finding a fossil frog ( see Fig. 51 ) in the Mesozoic . |
| 20 | Once in Ireland , they could wait and see how the situation developed , either remaining there or finding a way to Germany in order to fight for National Socialism against Bolshevism . |
| 21 | Killing Newley still seemed desirable , if far-fetched , like becoming a millionaire or finding a cure for cancer . |
| 22 | As simple as lighting a fire or finding a dry place to sleep . |
| 23 | In effect , all problems then become ‘ routine affairs ’ of a technical kind — controlling inflation , increasing productivity , implementing an effective incomes policy , or finding a solution to the instability of exchange rates — on the basis of a presumed political consensus which obscures the real existence of dominant and subordinate groups in society and the conflict between them . |
| 24 | And how the devil a poet writing English manages to make or find a language for poems is a mystery . |
| 25 | When children are actually involved in making things they often do not need an adult , unless they encounter a real difficulty and need help to cut or find a particular shape or material not already available . |
| 26 | It would suggest an inability to research or find a suitable purchaser . |
| 27 | It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location . |
| 28 | THE cross-party Scottish Constitutional Convention today faces a crunch decision : whether to fold or find a new role . |
| 29 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 30 | Nothing can be more exasperating to the borrower of library books than to find a vital page or two missing from the denouement of his thriller . |