Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed so strange to find no Sambo waiting for her in the hall . |
| 2 | In this situation it is obviously easier to find the fish than understand what the feature is that keeps them coming back to that swim . |
| 3 | You will discover that it is much easier to find the exact point of focus when the zoom is set to telephoto , partly due to the enlargement of the image and partly to the fact that the focus depth of field is much shallower at this end of the zoom . |
| 4 | ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’ |
| 5 | Fresh over from Ireland , and I thought it would be so easy to find a little office job — typing , filing . ’ |
| 6 | It was not so easy to find the cemetery where Mrs Zamzam 's father was buried . |
| 7 | Already in his fifties , Borrow was not apparently disconcerted to find the coach meeting the train at Plymouth was full but set out accordingly on foot to St. Cleer , where he was offered hospitality by the Taylor family at Penquite Farm . |
| 8 | Because there are fewer short than medium-sized men , a suit made to their measurements is less likely to find a buyer , and is knocked down accordingly . |
| 9 | The main disadvantage is that the range and quality of items on offer is often limited , and although there are usually good examples of the most popular groups , you are less likely to find a wide selection of village and nomadic rugs . |
| 10 | Take any one of these four ingredients away and you will be much less likely to find a close corporatist tie up between particular interests and the state in pursuit of increased state intervention . |
| 11 | Because Kate also knows that if this had happened she would have returned from the Common an hour or so later to find the carrots unchopped , the potatoes unpeeled and the lamb burned . |
| 12 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 13 | She was somewhat startled to find a waiter knocking on her door very soon and he came in bearing a tray of tea and a pain-killer , looking at her sadly and murmuring his regrets . |
| 14 | But it was so difficult to find the right moment . |
| 15 | It is also extremely difficult to find a book addressed to you if you are one of the younger girls suffering from an eating disorder . |
| 16 | Israel is small and densely populated so it is extremely difficult to find a site for a nuclear plant . |
| 17 | I know from my work with homeless families that such people invariably need help late at night , in the early hours of the morning or at weekends , when it is especially difficult to find a general practitioner who will respond quickly to a call to see someone who has arrived on the doorstep — in my case that means the doorstep of the YMCAs for which I worked . |
| 18 | The great problem for any navigator was to know where his ship was : it was relatively easy to determine the latitude , which measures distance north or south of the equator , but it was much harder to find the longitude , or distance east or west of a fixed meridian — a line from pole to pole running through all the points at which the sun is at its highest at the same moment . |
| 19 | There is a strong tendency for tone-unit boundaries to occur at boundaries between grammatical units of higher order than words ; it is extremely common to find a tone-unit boundary at a sentence boundary , as in : I wont have any tea I do nt like it |
| 20 | Why ( is ) it extremely rare to find a student who ( has ) made even a superficial study of phonetics in the course of the degree … |
| 21 | She was fixed with steely eyes and was somewhat surprised to find a decided twinkle there . |
| 22 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 23 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 24 | Is it not possible to find an understanding of faith that is compatible with uncertainty rather than certainty of the existence of a Deity ? |
| 25 | For example , the numerator might be a count of people in a postcode sector who have , say , a cancer , yet , because the census and health data are reported for different areal units , it is not possible to find the appropriate at-risk population for the denominator and so compute a reliable incidence ratio . |
| 26 | He now knew almost for certain that the British were not prepared to find the money . |
| 27 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |
| 28 | Although everyone seems to have an opinion , it 's not easy to find a clear , authoritative voice . |
| 29 | It was not easy to find a way of presenting prosaic information in a way which would attract parents . |
| 30 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |