Example sentences of "have find [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But then we would have to find separate words for every action or event denoted by different lexical verbs : a mammoth and unnecessary task .
2 David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich .
3 that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that .
4 But , if he was n't going to give her more concrete help himself , she would have to find other allies .
5 The " Women 's Office " has been guaranteed a budget of US$20.000 over a period of two years , after which it will have to find financial backing from within the government .
6 Smithers & Co , a research boutique , estimates that this year the corporate sector , excluding banks , will have to find new net external capital of ¥40 trillion ( $15 billion ) , equal to around 8% of GNP .
7 She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself .
8 Archivists and librarians will have to find new ways to provide ‘ readers ’ with specialised support in the use of access mechanisms ( software or hardware ) as well as ‘ meta-data ’ about the sources .
9 But , while Mr Lilley 's £80bn social security budget is being specially targeted by the Treasury , other ministers will have to find deep cuts in their budgets if they are to avoid higher taxes .
10 But , while Mr Lilley 's Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 £80bn social security budget is being specially targeted by the Treasury , other ministers will have to find deep cuts in their budgets if they are to avoid higher taxes .
11 And speaking again of the survivors , not to mention our three other visitors , we 'll have to find sleeping accommodation for them .
12 Strong as it is , Charles Spencer will undoubtedly have to find painful and unpopular solutions of his own .
13 Yet the substantial reduction in the planned expenditure on distribution suggests that the gains from reorganisation did outweigh the losses , and enabled the Boards to expand the system on a more economical basis than their predecessors would have found possible .
14 The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth .
15 Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial .
16 Her belief in their abilities and the ideas she instilled into them had carried them through situations that they would otherwise have found impossible .
17 These were the social strictures of the lager which , as an anthropologist , she must have found impossible to understand .
18 This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial .
19 Strange facts that Flaubert might not have found strange .
20 I had acted with some courage and endurance — and even intelligence , I hope — in a situation many men would have found hopeless .
21 Feeling somewhat naked in the bitter winter 's chill , he had decided to pitch up to his shirt maker in Jermyn Street , his hatter in St James 's and his tailor in Savile Row to deck himself out in a manner which Solomon in all his glory would have found intimidating .
22 I 'm sure that they could have found other examples where solicitors were not doing the job very well and were charging a lot of money because let's be realistic there are good solicitors and there are bad solicitors and I would n't pretend otherwise .
23 But the ritual was nevertheless a way of protecting the devotional intimacy , whereas the non-liturgical denominations exposed it in a way he would have found offensive .
24 The eighties brought commercial pragmatism , with for example many refreshment-trolley services run by private firms that employees of any organisation as large as BR would almost certainly have found impractical .
25 It was a loud laugh which Sandison would have found embarrassing if there had been lots of people in the bar .
26 While admitting that some of this funding could have displaced other funding sources — for example , technicians in short supply would likely have found alternative work — the authors of the report , Robin Brighton and Virginia Aschas , say that they also found clear evidence of economic gain .
27 Darren 's face expressed an immediate and lively scepticism which in other circumstances , Massingham would have found amusing .
28 First he shows how , in the successive volumes compiled under the generic title of ‘ Primer ’ , composers would have found whole psalms located in contexts able to suggest the composition of the psalm-motet not chronologically in succession to , but simultaneously with , the votive antiphon .
29 Such manic behaviour I should have found disturbing in normal circumstances , but in my state of extreme tension it had become quite insupportable .
30 Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton !
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