Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to find [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so easy to find these days . |
| 2 | The Germans were so pleased to find such enthusiastic murderers that they used Riga as a clearing house for people they wanted killed . |
| 3 | The ebony itself is extremely difficult to find these days , and I ended up buying 10 turning blanks , 30x2x2in ; each just enough to get a leg out of ! |
| 4 | It would be different if a school was making parents feel morally obliged to find these extras for their children , but we do not . |
| 5 | But he added that it was not normal to find such evidence . |
| 6 | There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers . |
| 7 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 8 | He himself admits that both the continental staff and the locally recruited waitresses are skilful , but privately he regrets that it is no longer possible to find enough male British waiters , as he feels this would ‘ look better ’ . |
| 9 | It is not easy to find enough foster parents to care for very difficult children ; all too often fostering breaks down and the child has to be returned again to the reception centre . |
| 10 | It is not customary to find any detail relating to these indexical features of the speaker in transcriptions by discourse analysts . |
| 11 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 12 | Although many board members reported being fascinated by recent developments , it was not uncommon to find those who failed to appreciate the amount of change since their own schooldays . |
| 13 | Similarly , with a pellet accumulation , the identity of the owl or bird of prey is revealed by the size and shape of the pellets and their location , and it is not necessary to find any of its bones in order to identify the predator . |
| 14 | But the difference between refining and reversing is a slippery one , so it is not surprising to find those who write in terms of refining , generally say much less about reversing . |
| 15 | My mind was still on Mr Billings 's problem during the afternoon calls and when we sat down to supper I was only mildly surprised to find another offering of sausage and mash . |
| 16 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 17 | For r { 24.74 it is still possible to find some trajectories which spiral into C+ , but , at r = rH 24.74 , C+ lose stability and in r } 24.74 all numerically computed trajectories wander forever near the strange attractor . |
| 18 | Catalogues and directories are often difficult to trace and it may be more worthwhile to find some reliable programs through known sources . |
| 19 | In an argument where the central issue was social cohesion it was clearly necessary to find some means of measuring this elusive force . |
| 20 | Second , there are many loopholes in the legislation ; for instance , until very recently a woman could only claim equal pay if she were doing the identical work of a man and , since occupations are typically segregated by sex , it is often difficult to find such a comparable man . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher is now anxious to find another equally striking initiative . |
| 22 | The syndicate are n't willing to find such money , so the Captain must wait . |
| 23 | We were frequently fortunate to find some very good tutors in the other languages , but four points are worth noting about this : |
| 24 | Language , literature , thought , art , politics and society become separate territories and are occupied by separate specialists , until it becomes increasingly hard to find any scholars with pretensions to competence over the whole field : K. O. Müller from Göttingen , active in the 1820 's and thirties , is one notable exception , but there were few to approach his breadth then or subsequently . |
| 25 | So more people means more resources , in the context of today 's talk , more energy resources so we 're particularly keen to find all the energy resources that we er that we can . |
| 26 | In reality it becomes almost impossible to find this amount in the budget , and projects have to limp along on an underfunded basis or with the overseas donor financing an increasing proportion of the total costs . |
| 27 | Oh it was quite useful to find Half a Sixpence . |
| 28 | How unexpected to find both the Jews and the Irish nourishing the same sort of dream . |
| 29 | Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook . |
| 30 | In view of the much publicised claims of skill shortages for IT staff in 1984 , It was rather surprising to find such a high proportion of Advanced Course students still seeking employment at the end of their courses . |