Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fresh over from Ireland , and I thought it would be so easy to find a little office job — typing , filing . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Israel is small and densely populated so it is extremely difficult to find a site for a nuclear plant . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Why ( is ) it extremely rare to find a student who ( has ) made even a superficial study of phonetics in the course of the degree … |
| 12 | She was fixed with steely eyes and was somewhat surprised to find a decided twinkle there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 15 | Is it not possible to find an understanding of faith that is compatible with uncertainty rather than certainty of the existence of a Deity ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although everyone seems to have an opinion , it 's not easy to find a clear , authoritative voice . |
| 18 | It was not easy to find a way of presenting prosaic information in a way which would attract parents . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sir Hector said : ‘ There was a general acceptance that we have to get things moving in the right direction but it is not easy to find a quick solution . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps it 's not easy to find an alternative part , so I 'd like to take that from you Chairman if I may and , and be assured that will be reviewed as far as the |
| 22 | If you arrive at your local station and it is just impossible to find a cab , then go to your local police station If it is close by and explain your problem . |
| 23 | We are not likely to find a cause as precisely as the tubercle bacillus can be shown to produce tuberculosis . |
| 24 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 25 | It is best just to find a racket that suits your game . |
| 26 | It is not difficult to find a quiet place to work . |
| 27 | So when , late that night as I was just about to go to bed , I heard a discreet knock at the door , I was not amazed to find a waiter in a claw-hammer coat pulling a heavily laden food trolley into my room . |
| 28 | ‘ You said yourself it 's not common to find a twenty-seven-year-old virgin in these so-called permissive times . ’ |
| 29 | Now , the beauty of this sort of explanation , where you have everybody on your side , when you are dealing with somebody who is unpopular , when you are all desperately anxious to find a scapegoat , is that your argument is unlikely to be at all jealously scrutinised . |
| 30 | The state of English teaching in schools had obviously , by the late 1980s , become a cause of such radical complaint and discontent that it was not surprising to find a committee of inquiry set up to look into its proper aims and methods ( The Kingham Committee , 1987 ) . |