Example sentences of "found a [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 We have not found a diminution in gastric acid output in old subjects with histologically normal stomachs under basal or stimulated conditions .
2 For in the main it is our own parishioners who donate the goods ; it is residents within the area who benefit from the high quality and the low prices ; and it is Charlie and May who have found a vocation in later life serving both community and parish with their gifts of energy and time .
3 To be frank with you , I 've never found a space in a lead break where I 've felt like using a whammy move . ’
4 Marie 's eyes shone with the light of inspiration , as if she had suddenly found a purpose in life .
5 Secondly , the Home Secretary and his colleagues have found a way in which to deal with the problem swiftly and , I believe , to remove the uppermost element .
6 I 've found a worm in my spaghetti !
7 But enthusiasts like Sidney Gendin ( 1989 : 25–32 ) and Roberta Kalechofsky ( 1989 : 168–9 ) claim to have found a chink in the armour of the Torah with the aid of the writings of Rav Kuk , Israel 's first Chief Rabbi .
8 The sun had found a chink in the clouds , and was gilding emerald meadows and dark woodlands .
9 The enslaved women have found a voice in one of themselves …
10 But in the opening paragraphs of Crime and Punishment consciousness has found a home in the unnamed and very physical young man who leaves his stuffy little top room and slips downstairs like a cat , out into the street .
11 Kent has paired with Pad de Calais départment while the European Institute for Social Work has found a home in the University of Kent .
12 A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective .
13 Hibs have found a blend in central defence elusive this season , but could have discovered the answer to their problems in Steven Tweed .
14 Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west .
15 It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph , as a junior clerk .
16 to his brain , then they comes the next day , oh no that was it , they , then they , we left it , we left it , we left it , he kept saying we might have to make a decision , erm your dad 's leg deteriorated he 's got no circulation in his legs at all , we 've found a pulse in his left leg but we ca n't find one in his right , he said I think you 're gon na have to make the decision of amputation oh god , anyway comes Monday came off ventilator and of course he could n't talk
17 Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed .
18 I dropped to the floor , hopeful I had found a gap in the defences , and stopped dead .
19 She had found a gap in the blackout material and had fixed her eye to it .
20 Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel .
21 Then , as if she had found a flaw in his argument , she pinged her own bell and announced : ‘ But you love Cork .
22 A TWO-WOMAN firm based in east London believes it has found a niche in the staff recruitment market by acting as a broker between companies and recruitment agencies .
23 She seems to have found a niche in Askham Grange , much more than in Grisly Risley , where she claims the screws tried to ‘ break my spirit .
24 She herself had soon found a niche in the shop , organising the part-time assistants , seeing to the wages , ordering stock , being a sort of general manager .
25 The surgeon 's face appeared on a level with my own : ‘ We 've found a tumour in your spinal cord which we think is the cause of your troubles . ’
26 Me broter 's found a gem in you .
27 It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history .
28 Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets .
29 But it is no good my holding out any hope that Mrs Ross can be found a place in one of our homes . ’
30 It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all .
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