Example sentences of "[verb] to find some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . |
| 2 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 3 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |
| 4 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 5 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 6 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 7 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 8 | But , that said , America needs to find some theme in his gorgings , and some sense of priorities between the goats'-cheese salad with balsamic vinegar and the stack of blueberry pancakes with syrup and melted butter , before dyspepsia sets in . |
| 9 | I would definitely need to try to find some help from somewhere . |
| 10 | Two years ago , she had brought the whole thing to a halt by leaving Hong Kong and moving here , to London , to try to find some peace of mind . |
| 11 | Secondly , whenever local politics were looked at , they were investigated using quantitative statistical techniques , used to try to find some sort of ‘ link ’ or ‘ association ’ between local inputs ( such as population density , income per capita , degree of urbanization ) and policy outputs ( usually levels of expenditure on particular services ) . |
| 12 | Slorne stared , her feathers a silvery grey in the night , and seemed to try to find some strength which would let her speak . |
| 13 | These topics fall into three main groups : ( a ) recognising the pattern of variation and seeking to correlate its occurrence with some environmental factor ; ( b ) seeking to find some differences in ability or behaviour between morphologically-different animals ; ( c ) searching for evidence of selection . |
| 14 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 15 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
| 16 | So what he 's got to do , erm if he rejects theism , if , on the basis of the diversity of human moral opinion , he has no faith in conscience or any form of moral intuition or any form of religious revelation , he 's got to find some way of arguing that there can be another rational basis for the criticism of moral and social systems . |
| 17 | I am going to be less particular , but I 've got to find some paper first . |
| 18 | So you 've got to find some value of X that you put into there , and there , to make the whole expression equal to zero . |
| 19 | Er and obviously if we 've got thousands of those coming to each three regional offices we 've got to find some method of distributing them , we do n't want them left in the office do we ? |
| 20 | Relieved to find some respite from the intensity of the last few moments , she allowed him to guide her outside . |
| 21 | To enter this eventful activity in 1986 , the prospective owner would have had to find some $45 million to have a VLCC of 250,000 tonnes built new . |
| 22 | Leland vowed to find some way of preventing such accidents . |
| 23 | And I would like to find some way of saying to people who do smoke , for instance , even on the top of buses where it 's now banned , you know , please do n't ! |
| 24 | I 'd like to find some examples of that and to give the kids chances to talk and to argue their ideas where there is n't some mammoth answer stacked up on the shelves of a library somewhere . |
| 25 | For scratch at his sceptical facade and underneath , the author , like all of us , yearns to find some place in which the dream lives on . |
| 26 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 27 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 28 | I 'd have to find some way of talking to her alone . |
| 29 | I knew she 'd have to find some way of getting over him but I did n't expect anything as drastic as this . ’ |
| 30 | Some are virtuous , i.e. we can live with them and do not have to find some way to stop them . |