Example sentences of "[vb infin] to find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , instead of feeling sorry for yourself and resentful towards others , you should endeavour to find permanent solutions to problems that have overshadowed your day-to-day existence for some time . |
| 2 | Western manufacturers will need to find new markets in the Third World , he says . |
| 3 | Mothers caring for their children on their own may need to find outside employment , and the strain of the dual role may result in a chaotic lifestyle where the children get less attention , household chores remain undone and mealtimes and bedtimes become erratic . |
| 4 | In order to turn the National Gallery into a viable concern , he will need to find private sponsorship and patronage , but although a Friends society has been launched , attracting sponsorship will prove extremely difficult until a new tax law designed to encourage personal and corporate donations to culture and sport is introduced . |
| 5 | It would need to find private land on which to meet and other hunts across the region may find themselves with similar problems . |
| 6 | We may need to find alternative means achieve some end . |
| 7 | Budgeting could be the answer : by spreading regular bills over the year , you will never need to find large sums when you 're short of cash . |
| 8 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
| 9 | Well , do n't you sometimes expect to find mysterious deaths wherever you go ? ’ |
| 10 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 11 | How has modern portfolio theory been used to evaluate portfolio performance and show how and why you might expect to find different performance rankings from the different measures . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 13 | That 's where you might expect to find cold wine . |
| 14 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 15 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 16 | How do we proceed to find optimum values of the coefficients |
| 17 | Argos said it would try to find alternative employment for redundant staff ‘ where opportunities exist ’ . |
| 18 | As Mr Wolski ate his usual morning toast and marmalade he was listening to a spokesman from the RSPB saying , ‘ We think it possible that the eagle will try to find high ground . |
| 19 | But then we would have to find separate words for every action or event denoted by different lexical verbs : a mammoth and unnecessary task . |
| 20 | David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich . |
| 21 | But , if he was n't going to give her more concrete help himself , she would have to find other allies . |
| 22 | that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that . |
| 23 | The " Women 's Office " has been guaranteed a budget of US$20.000 over a period of two years , after which it will have to find financial backing from within the government . |
| 24 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 25 | Archivists and librarians will have to find new ways to provide ‘ readers ’ with specialised support in the use of access mechanisms ( software or hardware ) as well as ‘ meta-data ’ about the sources . |
| 26 | But , while Mr Lilley 's £80bn social security budget is being specially targeted by the Treasury , other ministers will have to find deep cuts in their budgets if they are to avoid higher taxes . |
| 27 | But , while Mr Lilley 's Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 £80bn social security budget is being specially targeted by the Treasury , other ministers will have to find deep cuts in their budgets if they are to avoid higher taxes . |
| 28 | And speaking again of the survivors , not to mention our three other visitors , we 'll have to find sleeping accommodation for them . |
| 29 | When one is aiming simply to identify an entity for a hearer , in the nature of things one will tend to find enduring characteristics more reliable as the means of doing so , although there will certainly be a proportion of cases where some " occasional " property is just as useful . |
| 30 | He is now scared to use outside loos and says he has lost work with bosses who wo n't let him go to find other facilities . |