Example sentences of "find in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 2 | In fact , as the press release says , ‘ almost every rock climbing feature you could expect to find in the mountain environment . ’ |
| 3 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 4 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 5 | Realistic prices are still hard to find in the land market , according to a would-be farm purchaser whose quests for a viable farm has taken up most of his time and energy for over a year . |
| 6 | Yet through it all a strong sense of caring pervades and a feeling of friendship which is not easy to find in the Western World . |
| 7 | It is caused by a bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi , which is often very difficult to grow in the laboratory and correspondingly hard to find in the lesions themselves . |
| 8 | I was about to take off my load and leave the heap of pine-needles for someone else to find in the morning when I saw a figure approaching in the distance . |
| 9 | Warming to this theme , Ferril suggests that the ‘ egg of life ’ is symbolized by the oval inflated bladder of pigskin and by the oval-shaped outdoor arenas to which worshippers flock in their thousands in search of ‘ an outlet from sexual frustration ’ which they hope to find in the ‘ masochism and sadism ’ displayed before them by a highly-schooled ‘ priesthood of young men ’ . |
| 10 | Just above it is a block of plastic which combines a Euro-style power socket , a fuse carrier and the main power switch — which should be easy to find in the dark , as it 's directly above the mains lead . |
| 11 | It 's a word you are unlikely to find in the dictionary but , if you think of it as the opposite to ‘ extrude ’ , meaning to thrust or push out , then the term becomes more understandable . |
| 12 | A remarkable illustration of the explanatory convenience of egoism is the concept of the ‘ selfish gene ’ , through which the rational egoism which is so difficult to find in the hopelessly illogical world of men is finally tracked down in our ultimate genetic constituents . |
| 13 | A rector was , in her view , part of the traditional and comic cast list she had expected to find in the country , along with the squire and the village idiot . |
| 14 | What theme might we expect to find in the background of someone highly motivated by money over long periods ? |
| 15 | These vast walls were slashed across with bizarre colours like some monstrous oil-painting … it was the kind of valley one would expect to find in the exotic landscape of a dead planet ’ . |
| 16 | In addition to the aerodrome forecast , the Met 's other principal offering is a regional forecast which again follows the kind of format you would expect to find in the various sources at the airfield . |
| 17 | But he was puzzled to find in the writings of Descartes that argument for the conservation of motion that we have just described . |
| 18 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
| 19 | A fortnight later , W. & R. Chambers placed an advertisement in the Edinburgh Evening Co it rant ( the first of its kind that I have been able to find in the local press ) , reading : " Printing : wanted : young women of good education and character , to act as compositors " . |
| 20 | argue for a preparation stage for all reading comprehension in which students should both predict what they expect to find in the discourse from |
| 21 | Indeed , when he had solutions to problems , he sometimes went to the lab late at night and left his ideas on slips of paper for people to find in the morning — without knowing how they got there . |
| 22 | Later reformers , therefore , professed to find in the policies of Aranda and Olavide the models of a ‘ collectivist ’ solution , which regarded property as a social institution . |
| 23 | You wrote them ; you read them ; you know what you like to find in the written or printed word . |
| 24 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 25 | What differences would you expect to find in the buying behaviour of an individual buying the same product for his/her own use and also on behalf of an organisation ? |
| 26 | Many babies are perfectly happy with an old washing-up bowl filled with water , but a simple inflatable paddling pool is easy to find in the shops and generally fairly cheap . |
| 27 | Different stars have different spectra , but the relative brightness of the different colours is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot . |
| 28 | It is easy to find in the political writing of the eighteenth century , and especially in its vast pamphlet literature , frequent rejection of the idea of the balance of power . |
| 29 | These , however , are often difficult to find in the form required , because of inconsistencies in definitions or reporting standards . |
| 30 | As I told you I think I have made observations which lead me to conclude that there are not only high but fertile lands on the verge of our intertropical Regions , and arguing from the Character of the Ranges here I should not be surprised to find in the more distant parts of the Continent , a Country vying with America in richness of Natural products , and I have very little doubts but that the discoveries to be made would amply repay the government any outlay it might make . |