Example sentences of "[was/were] find [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kähler 's thought , and the distinction he drew , were to find many echoes in later debate , along with the work of Schweitzer , and we shall meet these questions again . |
| 2 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 3 | If they were to find dry kindling to light a fire to cook their heron Marian knew they would have to stop soon , but not until they had found the stream again and crossed it . |
| 4 | Clearly many of the schemes and proposals outlined there were to find full or partial implementation in the Butler Education Act , the creation of the Welfare State and a National Health Service , the New Town and National Parks Acts , and the nationalisation of basic industries . |
| 5 | None of them had direct experience of retail tariff-making and they were to find most of their initiatives on tariffs blocked by the Area Board chairmen . |
| 6 | The ‘ image ’ of C. S. Lewis , which many were to find rebarbative , was not , as they imagined , stage-managed or rehearsed , but it was none the less odd for that . |
| 7 | Recent studies on breast carcinomas showed that high urokinase type plasminogen activator concentrations in tissue extracts are positively and independently associated with aggressiveness and poor prognosis while low tissue type plasminogen activator concentrations were found indicative for a shorter disease free interval and survival . |
| 8 | At daybreak they went into hiding , but were found due to their tracks being seen in the snow which lay about . |
| 9 | A FORMER Polish premier and his wife were found murdered yesterday . |
| 10 | Ian Spiro , the businessman wanted for questioning after his wife and children were found murdered , has been found dead in the California desert . |
| 11 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ Two inmates were found unconscious in their cells on Saturday at about 2.55 pm . |
| 12 | Twins Barrington and Wesley Moses , aged four , and their brothers , Calvin , eight , and Leon , six , were found unconscious in their top-floor bedroom . |
| 13 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 14 | One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’ |
| 15 | In 10 patients who were found suitable for biliary/hepatic surgery the ductus cysticus was then ligated and gall bladder bile was aspirated . |
| 16 | 1808 " It having been Represented to this Meeting that the Fund for raising the Militia men by a Publick Box was found Inadequate to raise the men , of course the Funds were found deficient by one Hundered and eight pounds 14/- … this Meeting consider themselves bound to advance upon this Deficiency the one half … |
| 17 | George Dunlop , of Linfield , preferred to Allen McKnight , held out for 42 minutes , but when Fort Dunlop came under siege , the defences were found wanting , and the only Irish-based player on the field was at fault for the important first goal . |
| 18 | And when relativity came , Newton 's equations were found wanting but not Maxwell 's ; they needed no relativistic correction . |
| 19 | There have already been two incidents in a wood in Wales this year , where two red kites and five ravens were found poisoned , and one buzzard and two ravens were shot . |
| 20 | About one-fifth of the force had to be replaced each year , partially because many recruits were found unsuitable . |
| 21 | Although some social class differences in preferences for certain domestic activities were found middle-class women were more likely to dislike domestic service activities such as washing floors and dishes — the more fundamental sense of these as a feminine responsibility persisted . |
| 22 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
| 23 | Luckily , they had survival gear and were found alive and well , albeit a trifle sheepish , at the top of the climb . |
| 24 | THREE young men missing overnight after a speedboat trip were found alive today after a massive air and search in Cardigan Bay . |
| 25 | At their trial in Pristina in February 1989 , all were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 26 | Identical twin boys , aged 14 , were found guilty of robbery and attempted robbery at the Old Bailey yesterday after holding up two women with air pistols in Wembley . |
| 27 | In July 1973 two brothers , Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn , were found guilty in Dublin of the biggest bank robbery in Irish history . |
| 28 | In 1977 , 8 per cent of males aged 14 to under 17 were found guilty of , or cautioned for , offences ; in comparison with 0.7 per cent of the 30+ age group . |
| 29 | Similarly , in 1977 , 1.6 per cent of females aged 14 to under 17 were found guilty of , or cautioned for , offences ; in comparison with 0.2 per cent of females in the 30+ age group . |
| 30 | The five players were found guilty of bringing the game into serious disrepute and banned for life . |