Example sentences of "[was/were] find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These doubts were to find a wider resonance in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | But his two immediate concerns were to find a room and a job . |
| 3 | The charred and severed remains of Miss Ward , 28 , were found a year ago in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya , in an out-of-the-way spot , six miles from her abandoned vehicle . |
| 4 | Moreover , the excavations produced much evidence of the destruction of buildings and the massacre of the population , which took place after the successful Roman siege of 211BC , and among the destruction layers were found a number of the earliest issues of the Roman denarius coinage , whose introduction could thereby be dated to 211BC or shortly before . |
| 5 | Her underwear and tights , which had been ripped off , were found a few yards away . |
| 6 | Immediately underneath the stone lay a cist containing several rude cinerary urns , and alongside of it were found a gold fibula and an armilla of a peculiar type made from a broad band of gold beaten out so as to form a convex centre , on each side of which was a fluted ornamental border , and a raised rim returned at the edge . " |
| 7 | Across the Glyders on Suicide Wall in the Ogwen Valley , Ed Stone and Mark Taylor were finding a new pitch between Mur Y Meirwon and Route 1 : Y Meirwon Byw E4/5 6a climbs to just skirt the right side of the turf ledge and joins Mur Y Meirwon for its enjoyable finish . |
| 8 | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy ‘ the most beautiful dress in New York ’ , telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband . |
| 9 | The problem , in short , was to find a system where the landowner could continue to create all the beneficial interests he wished in favour of members of the family , and , at the same time , would be able to deal with the land , by sale , long lease , or mortgage , as if he were a sole owner . |
| 10 | Perhaps the best thing to do , I thought despairingly , was to find a telephone and get professional help : the fire brigade and an ambulance . |
| 11 | The second way was to find a compound which would compete for or block the inactivating enzyme . |
| 12 | One safeguard to counter the excesses of individualism was to find a spiritual ‘ abba ’ or director for guidance and support . |
| 13 | The next move was to find a chairman from the ranks of the great and the good , someone of acknowledged independence who combined the qualities of Solomon and Job . |
| 14 | In these extreme situations the ultimate question was to find a meaning in life and to account for the meaning of death … |
| 15 | But our concern was to find a church in Scotland that would give us the love and teaching that our family needed . |
| 16 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 17 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 18 | Their only hope was to find a farmhouse where a friendly farmer might be able to offer them shelter for the night . |
| 19 | Tyndale 's main problem for the rest of his life was to find a base on the Continent where there was a printing press , where its use by him would be tolerated by the authorities , and from which his translations and publications could be sent to England , either through sales at the great annual book fair at Frankfurt or by river and sea , hidden among the goods of friendly merchants . |
| 20 | The real hunt , though , was to find a union less clearly aligned with the labour left . |
| 21 | As we remarked earlier , their ‘ problem ’ was to find a channel of communication . |
| 22 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
| 23 | The best that could be done was to find a formula which , compatibly with this , gave something to the minority . |
| 24 | When I awoke , it was to find a neat pile of signed bar bills on a desk next to the window , amid a rather satisfying scene of destruction . |
| 25 | For on her return to Flaxthorpe , in balmy early summer weather , it was to find a letter from Sophie , postmarked Geneva . |
| 26 | One of the key motives behind the current legislative changes was to find a way of limiting expenditure on residential and nursing home care , which increased from £10m in 1979 to £1 billion in 1989 . |
| 27 | An overriding concern was to find a source of arms supplies to equip the Rebel Army and the people 's militia to fight the anticipated US invasion . |
| 28 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |
| 29 | We knew that if Thomas survived the cancer his only chance of a halfway normal life was to find a cure for A-T . |
| 30 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |