Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is perhaps not surprising to find then , that here the female is the larger sex and is dominant over her male ( Ingrams , personal communication ) . |
| 4 | The ‘ modal ’ fruit in both tropical and temperate regions is a 7–9 mm black or red berry , but as there is a greater gape range in tropical birds , it is perhaps not surprising to find a wider range of fruit and seed size there . |
| 5 | Those who studied youth cultures , influenced by the study of delinquent street gangs , had focused upon conspicuous youth cultures and ignored other youths who were perhaps more difficult to find . |
| 6 | ‘ the layman may well wonder why we do not consult the Parliamentary Debates , for we are much more likely to find the intention of Parliament there than anywhere else . |
| 7 | Much more difficult to find , although probably widespread , are the cross-shaped vermin traps , built to intercept predators like rats and weasels . |
| 8 | There are , of course , masterpieces in the collection , by Pierino da Vinci ( no.72 ) , Giovanni Francesco Susini ( no.94 ) , Georg Petel ( no. 361 ) , Edward Pierce ( no.559 ) and Louis-François Roubiliac ( no.565 ) , but it is likely that the greatest nuggets of information will be found in the entries on the more modest sculptures , which are so often difficult to find out about . |
| 9 | It is only too easy to find minor errors in a publication which contains so many names and so much information , but these are the very features likely to lead to the book being treated as a reference by local historians for years to come . |
| 10 | Reminders of this century 's deepest depression are all too easy to find |
| 11 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 12 | It is all too common to find schools without stores , classrooms without cupboards , books without covers and a quite alarming rate of materials loss in schools often bearing little relationship to the official ‘ life expectancy ’ of materials on which the cost of replacements are calculated . |
| 13 | Yet despite fine work going on in many schools , classrooms and library resource centres , it is all too common to find teachers reverting to type , schools with equipment stowed away unused , library resource centres which have become simply print shops for the production of work sheets and diagrams , supplementing teacher.exposition and drill . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if a creditor , with grounds for suspecting that a company is in financial difficulties , makes a search he is all too likely to find that no recent annual returns or accounts have been filed . |
| 15 | However when you come to pin it down , you find that it is not all that easy to find bits which feature exactly what you want in the way and at the length you want them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it is not so easy to find good examples of his suggestion that batterie can lend wit except in the Blue Boy 's révoltades in Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 18 | It was not so easy to find the cemetery where Mrs Zamzam 's father was buried . |
| 19 | Not so easy to find these days . |
| 20 | She feels people in Scotland who have lost their jobs are not so eager to find work because wages are low , whereas in the States people are prepared to do two or three part-time jobs to support themselves . |
| 21 | For pupils of below average ability it is not so unusual to find discussions of the whole curriculum taking place , perhaps because of their perceived ‘ low ’ status or because there are no public examination constraints . |
| 22 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cardiff was now somehow not surprised to find that the sound of the man 's voice was familiar — even though they had never met before . |
| 25 | When Lewis himself was speaking , it was not always easy to find a tame atheist who was prepared to come along and be mauled in public debate ; for on these occasions he reverted to type and became again the P'daytabird prosecuting an unlikely prisoner in the Belfast police courts . |
| 26 | It 's a good idea , for example , to plant strawberry runners this month , although it 's not always easy to find runners with good strong roots . |
| 27 | Again , admittedly , this is not always easy to find . |
| 28 | Initially the examiner , who has read a file detailing the main points of the complaint , but inevitably does not have the full story ( hence the reason for the enquiry ) , turns up unannounced at the company 's premises ( which are not always easy to find ) and has to get past well-meaning but defensive receptionists and secretaries without revealing the purpose of the visit . |
| 29 | Such lists are not always easy to find , as is described by Newby ( 1977 ) when he tried to devise a sampling frame of farms in a certain area . |
| 30 | It is not always easy to find the old , late nineteenth — or early twentieth-century Biarritz amongst the new . |