Example sentences of "find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG Ulster woman is sharing the burdens of the Romanian people in a bid to find foster homes for abandoned children . |
| 2 | We found striking gradients in both short and long spells of sickness absence , with higher rates among employees with lower status . |
| 3 | Cannigione offers exciting variety , and the best chance for windsurfers to find strong winds , especially in early or late season . |
| 4 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 5 | But it is not difficult to find conflicting judgements , as in the headline : ‘ TERROR GANGS TO BE WIPED OUT . |
| 6 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 7 | If they were to find dry kindling to light a fire to cook their heron Marian knew they would have to stop soon , but not until they had found the stream again and crossed it . |
| 8 | Sitting in a heavily carved chair to the right of it , George Briant took a sardonic pleasure in the manifest discomfort of the men and women in front of him who moved uneasily in their damp coats and tried to find dry patches on their laps on which to rest their notebooks . |
| 9 | But as the days stretched into tedious weeks Creggan found strange comfort in the silent presence of Slorne in the adjacent cage . |
| 10 | Today 's organised and systematic searches of the skies record far more red-shifts in a year or so than Dr Sandage has measured in his life — and have , in doing so , found strange currents , superimposed on the overall expansion , in which galaxies flow like twigs on a stream . |
| 11 | In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ . |
| 12 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 13 | He did not deny that inspectors from the Federation Against Copyright Theft ( FACT ) found counterfeit tapes in shops supplied by his company , Classic Video , of Victoria Road , Darlington . |
| 14 | This failure to find cross-modal priming was confirmed by Clarke and Morton ( 1983 ) and by Morton ( 1979 ) , who failed to find facilitation of visual word identification by prior auditory presentation . |
| 15 | NOWADAYS it is rare to find classic golf courses which not only welcome visitors but charge reasonable green fees . |
| 16 | The proposed legislation relies on it to find technical solutions that are cost effective while permitting the development of its technology . ’ |
| 17 | Mark Twain , the American writer , found European trains primitive after his native ones : ‘ The conductor locks you in when the train starts ; there is no water to drink in the car , there is no heating apparatus … they have not that culmination of all charity and human kindness , a sleeping car … ’ |
| 18 | In my view the challenge to us all is to find adoptive families for those children for whom this is appropriate and to offer security to those new families and children for whom adoption is not appropriate , and to convince them . |
| 19 | Whereas the Government press could rely on a government subvention to support it for political or educational ends , private newspapers had to find private capital . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It would need to find private land on which to meet and other hunts across the region may find themselves with similar problems . |
| 22 | Where to find private housing |
| 23 | The man returned to his house at Lemington Place at 10.30pm yesterday to find flammable liquid had been poured through his letter box . |
| 24 | The occupant returned home at 10.30 last night to find flammable liquid had been poured through the letterbox . |
| 25 | Ryder et al used bismuth subsalicylate with a maximum dose of 928 mg metallic bismuth as an enema in 15 patients with colitis unresponsive to conventional treatment ; they found oral bismuth subsalicylate ineffective but with twice daily enemas over eight weeks symptoms improved in nine patients and sigmoidoscopy findings improved in 11 patients . |
| 26 | Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known . |
| 27 | When selecting utterances to practise these intonation patterns it may be more difficult to find complete utterances with the same overall tune , because the intonation pattern may only be carried by a segment of the utterance . |
| 28 | Both were neglected in the 1980s in the constant pressure to find cost-improvement savings , though the first would have resulted in longer-term economies and the latter will result in much bigger bills through cumulative years of neglect . |
| 29 | These results are consistent with the findings of Chowdhury and Kreitman ( 1971 ) , and Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973a ) , who found attempted suicide patients and Samaritan clients to be different in many respects — the Samaritan clients , for example , including a greater proportion of men , and more socially isolated individuals . |
| 30 | He said afterwards : ‘ I was delighted to find total agreement between the CLA and the Minister on the need for creating increased employment in the countryside , and on the crucial role of landowners in developing a thriving rural economy and attractive environment . |