Example sentences of "and find [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 Write your own Lost and Found poem , using a different letter . |
| 2 | He prised the sealed top open and found army uniforms , with no insignia marks on them . |
| 3 | Weld et al combined exercise testing and variables from the Norris index and found exercise duration , the frequency of exercise induced ventricular ectopics and an abnormal chest X-ray to be significant independent predictors of 1-year mortality . |
| 4 | Of the gentry , only the Catholics who were cut off from public office and subjected to heavy fines retreated entirely into their localities and found difficulty in profiting as much as the others , yet their authority as squires remained largely untouched . |
| 5 | Bates , on the other hand , relaxed after claiming the first set 6–1 to lose the second 6–0 and found difficulty in mentally recharging as the 25 year old Swede took his opportunity to achieve a career best performance to reach the final . |
| 6 | ‘ Sprechen kommandant , bitte , privaten , ’ I said very slowly , as if I had just learned these words and found difficulty in repeating them . |
| 7 | They claimed to speak for traditional family values and found support from various fundamentalists — Orthodox Jewish , Roman Catholic , Baptist — in an attempt both to broaden their appeal among Haringey 's multiracial population and to strengthen their message that homosexuality was ‘ unnatural ’ in all cultures . |
| 8 | Maginn canvassed other British delegates and found support for his idea of creating a representative body in the United Kingdom and Ireland . |
| 9 | R. G. Vines , of CSIRO in Melbourne , is among the theorists who have analysed rainfall patterns over South Africa , Australia and New Zealand and found evidence of cyclic patterns including recurring severe droughts at roughly 20-year intervals . |
| 10 | These commissions have drawn on expert opinion from the social science community , and found evidence for both sides . |
| 11 | They studied sterling , Deutschmark , yen and Swiss franc futures-forward price differences and found evidence of autocorrelation , which they interpreted as being caused by futures contract indivisibility . |
| 12 | headquarters and found evidence that the river is one of the most polluted in the twelve E C countries . |
| 13 | Five million men and women in uniform had to be demobilized and found work , minus those needed to maintain Britain 's commitments overseas as an imperial power and one of the ‘ Big Four ’ at the United Nations . |
| 14 | Regina was eventually moved and found work — but it was still hard to communicate with her : |
| 15 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 16 | On the death of his father in 1894 , Bernard went to Manchester and found work as a ‘ property boy and paint-room drudge ’ , educating himself by reading , inter alia , John Locke and John Ruskin [ qq.v. ] , and practising drawing . |
| 17 | In fact Gilbert 's Act of 1782 , remembered mostly as one which permitted parishes to unite for Poor Law purposes without undergoing the expensive process of incorporating through a private act of parliament , was equally significant in its effective sanctioning of the subsidising of wages from the poor rates for the able-bodied who were to be removed from workhouses and found work . |
| 18 | Or , as Nehemiah vividly expressed it , ‘ They ate and were satisfied and grew fat and found delight in thy great goodness . |
| 19 | Eager to take a role in Hyacinth 's drama , Martha sped ahead and found Nana resting on her porch , her church books still in her hands . |
| 20 | At the coronation , which took place in Moscow at the end of August 1856 , Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , quizzed gentry representatives from many parts of the empire on the question of emancipation and found sympathy for the idea only among the north-westerners whose feelings on the matter had already been communicated to the tsar . |
| 21 | The Boudicca tale is based on a statement by the contemporary Roman historian , Tacitus , that after his defeat , Petilius Cerialis , the commander of the IX Legion , escaped with his cavalry ‘ and found shelter behind the defences of [ their ] camp ’ . |
| 22 | In the course of his research , he has discovered missing works and found documentary photographs recording paintings and objects which have been lost or destroyed . |
| 23 | Ellis became chief whip in March 1894 when the fifth Earl of Rosebery succeeded Gladstone as prime minister , and found life exceptionally difficult since the Liberals had only the narrowest of majorities . |
| 24 | The future Quaker abolitionist , James Cropper of Liverpool , accepted the necessity ‘ for a humble , dependent state of mind naturally arising from the knowledge of the superior wisdom and goodness of the will and ways of God to our own ’ and found gloom about the future banished . |
| 25 | In 1987 the Ministry killed 711 badgers and found tuberculosis in only 92 . |
| 26 | They walked back into the main bar and found Knocker mopping up the bar . |
| 27 | He had the worst of all Test baptisms , in 1975 ; went further into his shell when heavily criticised for touring South Africa in 1982 ( a £25,000 libel settlement from the sun a compensation ) ; and found country captaincy too much first time round . |
| 28 | She opened a wooden chest and found pasta , jam , and , put there even more thoughtfully , packets of Rice Krispies and tins of baked beans . |
| 29 | Charles Wesley congratulated himself in 1744 that as a consequence of his having preached against wrestling on his visit to Cornwall in the preceding year , the village of Gwennap had been unable to find enough men for their next contest , " all the Gwennap men being struck off the Devil 's list , and found wrestling against him not for him " . |
| 30 | FIREMEN raced to a 999 call and found housewife Bernie Plank starting a hog-roast barbecue … at four in the morning . |