Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other spices that you may only be able to find in a delicatessen include juniper berries , which are used to flavour gin and are essential when cooking game casseroles ; tamarind seed , which is really a dried pulp and is used in curries ; and annatto which is a small seed used in latin American cookery . |
| 2 | He would only be able to find his way back to her when he managed , for once in his life , to be honest about what he really felt and believed . |
| 3 | Comprehensive and easy to use , the encyclopedia manages to map the central concerns of contemporary linguistics in such a way that outsiders will not only be able to find what they are looking for but will also be persuaded to explore further . |
| 4 | ‘ To argue that workers displaced by machines should necessarily be able to find work building those machines makes no more sense than to expect the horses displaced by mechanical vehicles to have been employed , directly or indirectly , in various branches of the expanding automotive industry , ’ says Leontief ( 1978 ) . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to find a fool-proof numbering system applicable to all molecules , but two simple rules are well-established . |
| 6 | I am pleased to see the porpoise , because they too have been affected by the general shortage of food recently , and have not been easy to find in their usual haunts . |
| 7 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 8 | But many authorities have either not been able to find suitable sites or have not complied with the ruling . |
| 9 | The plane did not return and we have not been able to find out what happened . |
| 10 | In his researches at Wimbledon Public Library he had not been able to find any really cheering quotations on the subject of death . |
| 11 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 12 | Police have not been able to find out who was responsible for the forgeries . |
| 13 | Monnet had resigned in February 1955 in the wake of the EDC failure , but was still in position since the Six had not been able to find a successor . |
| 14 | Although he could trace his ancestors back to the reign of James the first , he had not been able to find a single man on that tree of immoralities — even to the bloodiest root — who had caused , either by his hand or hiring , what he , Estabrook , was out this midnight to contrive : the murder of his wife . |
| 15 | And then crossed out ‘ dumb ’ and inserted ‘ sweet ’ because it occurred to her that Mrs Rundle might have known about this affliction from the lawyers but had not been able to find the words to tell the children about it . |
| 16 | I have not been able to find any examples of this strategy in my data or in Johns ' data . |
| 17 | There were libraries in the lighthouses at Portnahaven , Rhuvaal and probably McArthur 's Head but I have not been able to find out what happened to them . |
| 18 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 19 | The general member auditors , er , I 'm told that they , they look after the money they 've not been able to find themselves seats I understand this morning , so hopefully everything 's in order but somewhere around Eric George and Arthur are they around ? |
| 20 | To her disappointment , she had not been able to find a Château La Tour Monchauzet vintage on the wine-list , but the half-bottle of Côtes de Bergerac that she chose instead more than made up for it . |
| 21 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 22 | Even my coach Robert Ellis ( who yesterday ran the London marathon ) has not been able to find anything out , ’ said Hopper , a Durham restaurant manager . |
| 23 | If local authorities have not been able to find sites how much more difficult is it going to be for gipsies themselves ? ’ he said . |
| 24 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 25 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 26 | It was , as Theda had not been surprised to find , up in the attics in the servants ' quarters . |
| 27 | In the adjacent Golf Bar golfers will soon be able to find a welcoming watering hole looking over the green . |
| 28 | It would just be nicer to find them extremely interesting from somewhere nice and snug , inside . |
| 29 | The courts will generally be reluctant to find that a natural event breaks the chain of causation as the plaintiff has no-one else to sue if the defendant is exonerated . |
| 30 | Skymaster is on Page 1500 , which you 'll normally be able to find automatically through an access key on whatever keyboard you use . |