Example sentences of "was find [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The object , Nietzsche explained , was to find appropriate terms for his insight into the " weighty problem " of tragedy 's origin and goal . |
| 2 | The Home Office said aS far as young offenders were concerned … the aim was to find constructive altermnatives to custody … |
| 3 | Geschwind 's express intention was to find physiological correlates of linguistic capacities , in order to bring language within the scope of scientific materialism . |
| 4 | But however welcome , such generosity did not help solve the central problem which was to find suitable homes for the children . |
| 5 | As the retail side of the operation was now increasing in importance , one of Peter Revers ' principal tasks was to find new store locations and Jean 's was to hire staff for them . |
| 6 | This expectation was to find documented expression in the Magna Carta of 1215 , by which the King recognized it as a right of his subjects " to have the Common Council of the Kingdom " for the assessment of extraordinary aids — that is , taxation . |
| 7 | It was these self-interests that a distant pope was to find difficult to overcome . |
| 8 | The result was the car was found parked half on the footpath just a few yards away . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | The next time he was found drunk and disorderly he 'd have had it . |
| 11 | And Marian was found drunk in a field ! ’ |
| 12 | Even this combined flow at times proved insufficient and it was found necessary to dig a leat . |
| 13 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
| 14 | In 1893 , it was found necessary to perform a minor operation on one of the inmates , for which the administration of ‘ laughing gas ’ was required . |
| 15 | No observer was present during the home observations but , for technical reasons , it was found necessary to have an observer in the classroom and , this being so , it was decided to introduce a video-recorder as well . |
| 16 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 17 | In the early days the Manning conference was quite an informal one day session , but as the service grew and the numbers of boats and crew members complicated the issue it was found necessary to extend to two days . |
| 18 | In considering the requirements of local industry it was found necessary to place emphasis on the students elective programme ie he/she would be able to design his/her own programme to satisfy his/her own needs . |
| 19 | Even in organization theory , however , it was found necessary as recently as 1980 by Bacharach and Lawler to reject a view of organizations as rational , harmonious , apolitical and normatively integrated , substituting instead an approach to them as ‘ arenas for daily political action ’ in which power and influence are mobilized by interest groups to gain control of resources through bargaining and the formation of coalitions . |
| 20 | Muscle strips were maintained under a tension of 3 g , which produced near optimal contraction and experiments were commenced after a stabilisation period of two hours , which was found necessary in preliminary studies to ensure consistent muscle performance . |
| 21 | The 46-year-old spy was found poisoned three days after his wife Gail and three young children were discovered shot dead at their California home . |
| 22 | He was found guilty and sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 24 | He was found guilty of conspiracy to murder but not guilty of attempted murder . |
| 25 | One Italian who was executed for war crimes — General Bellomo — was the only anti-fascist army officer at a senior level ; he was found guilty after one of his men shot an escaping British prisoner of war at Bari . |
| 26 | John Hemmings , aged 54 , was found guilty by magistrates at Dartford , Kent , of illegally possessing for sale 22,902 eggs . |
| 27 | THE tension that has gripped Miami began to ease yesterday as a policeman , William Lozano , was found guilty of manslaughter over the killing of two young black men on a motorcycle in January . |
| 28 | THE tension that has gripped Miami began to ease yesterday as a policeman , William Lozano , was found guilty of manslaughter over the killing of two young black men on a motorcycle in January . |
| 29 | Thomas , of the Isle of Dogs , east London , was found guilty of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 30 | She was found guilty by a jury on August 30 . |