Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 2 | For the rest of the day he-would go into Inverness , take his spare clothes into a launderette and then perhaps try to find a public baths with hot showers . |
| 3 | So it only remained to find a suitable present . |
| 4 | Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages . |
| 5 | The successful diplomate will thus expect to find a wide range of career and employment opportunities , especially in the industrial/commercial sector . |
| 6 | He 's always had to find a new friend , he do n't trust me . |
| 7 | He 's always had to find a new friend , he do n't trust me . |
| 8 | But so far only five have responded and he admitted : ‘ I still need to find a big backer or things will be really difficult . ’ |
| 9 | Many are now in the caring hands of staff at the Battersea Dogs Home in London , but they still have to find a permanent home . |
| 10 | Fennel , Bowers and Satz ( 1977 ) , for example , took pains to devise a tachistoscopic analogue of their dichotic task and still failed to find a significant correlation between the two sets of scores , although there was an increasing agreement over four testing sessions between the side of the ear advantage and the superior visual half-field . |
| 11 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 12 | Astute readers might also have found a small note , placed in the magazine 's gossip column , referring to the front page story and reminding readers that it was 1 April — placed there by Birbeck as a precautionary measure . |
| 13 | The retired Everton Football Club salesman has keenly followed the campaign and thoroughly enjoys finding a little fame at 70 . |
| 14 | Barker et al also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze . |
| 15 | Bryden and Rainey ( 1963 ) also failed to find a significant hemifield difference in the perception of geometric forms , as did Lordahl , Kleinman , Levy , Massoth , Pessin , Storandt , Tucker and Vanderplas ( 1965 ) using random shapes as stimuli . |
| 16 | Although Mr Patten said it was too early to discuss his political future , the Tories are now expected to find a safe seat in which the sitting member can be persuaded to make way for his early return to Westminster . |
| 17 | I shall now have to find a new Saturday morning job . |
| 18 | Ms Li is now trying to find a foreign partner who will invest in the school . |
| 19 | He had always wanted to do something creative , but had so far failed to find a suitable medium — then he discovered photography . |
| 20 | Thus , it seems that it is misguided even to try to find a single deficit theory of Broca 's aphasia , because Broca 's aphasia is a clinical syndrome , not a theoretical syndrome . |
| 21 | It stands gaunt and grey , but today has found a peaceful role in the new Arbon , housing a museum which illustrates life in the area right back to the time of the Roman and beyond . |
| 22 | In consequence to this , they ran in four tries to their opponents ' two , but the Shane Park side could well have found a real prospect in winger Graeme McCluskey . |
| 23 | The chances are , when you think about Texas blues guitarists , you 'd be hard pushed to find a common denominator between them in terms of style . |
| 24 | Now we were hard put to find a grubby corner of the upper dock in which to berth Venturous . |
| 25 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 26 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |
| 27 | One therefore has to find a new theory that combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle . |
| 28 | Efforts will therefore continue to find a suitable person before the commencement of next term . |