Example sentences of "[verb] to find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEESSIDE Polytechnic students struggling to find industrial placements have set up their own hotline . |
| 2 | The occupation of Denmark and Norway , carried through with unexpectedly low losses and seen as a major blow for Britain , was celebrated as a ‘ great success for the bold , determined policy of the Führer ’ , whose birthday in April 1940 saw propagandists struggling to find new superlatives to express the ‘ unshakeable loyalty ’ of his ‘ following ’ . |
| 3 | SOCCER star Neil Webb may be struggling to find top form . |
| 4 | In my patch , many small builders are doing well and are struggling to find enough labour to keep them going in today 's market . |
| 5 | But , instead of feeling sorry for yourself and resentful towards others , you should endeavour to find permanent solutions to problems that have overshadowed your day-to-day existence for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Do we want to find this menace or not ? ’ he shouted . |
| 7 | In particular , they tend to find collective expression , as with the medieval dances of St John and St Vitus ; the wild and orgiastic festivities of ancient near-Eastern religion , with their song and dance and sexual licence ; and , in Greece , the choruses that sang and danced in the worship of the fertility god , Dionysus . |
| 8 | Customers will get refunds and other firms are helping to find alternative trips . |
| 9 | The underside of rocks can be carefully examined to find small fish , ( Rocklings , Blennies , Gobies , Butterfish ) crabs , anemones , starfish , urchins , or nudibranchs ( sea-slugs ) . |
| 10 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 11 | Then weighted averages of the section indices are calculated to find eleven group indices and the all-items index . |
| 12 | Lodwick 's unpublished manuscripts , including an innovatory Dutch shorthand , are listed in his Works ( 1972 ) , all of which display originality and intelligence , but failed to find practical implementation by his successors . |
| 13 | As it turned out , we only once failed to find wild cocoa in all the areas we visited throughout the region . |
| 14 | Compromise proposals to leave the government ministries in Bonn but move the Bundestag to Berlin failed to find sufficient support . |
| 15 | This ambitious programme was completed by 1797 , but with certain qualifications : the maps of Stirlingshire and of Perthshire were never embarked upon , for Ainslie failed to find sufficient subscribers . |
| 16 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 17 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 18 | Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded . |
| 19 | ( As with the Hand thesis 91 , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) . |
| 20 | ( As with the Hand thesis , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) . |
| 21 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 22 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 23 | However , Nielsen and Videbech ( 1973 ) failed to find any effect on the suicide rate of the introduction of a community service to an island population . |
| 24 | The tormented tycoon , who got a £1.26million pay-off eight months ago , failed to find another job . |
| 25 | ‘ We drilled two wells whilst I was in Brazil but failed to find commercial hydrocarbons and the office was closed when the work programme was completed , ’ he explained . |
| 26 | People who ooze experience , self-confidence and charisma appear to find most aspects of teaching easy ; many of the best drama teachers I 've seen working , however , are quiet and self-effacing , and I 've seen relatively inexperienced young students running very successful whole group drama sessions . |
| 27 | We are now two players short and I am going to struggle to find eleven men . |
| 28 | Right what we want to find is how steep is the the hill we want to find that angle . |
| 29 | Want to find that side and we know that 's thirteen centimetres and that 's twelve centimetres and that 's a right angle how would how would you go about finding that ? |
| 30 | And you want to find that side well we get the right way would n't it let's see . |