Example sentences of "found a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of agribusiness is felt throughout the Third world , though North American firms have found a major outlet in Latin America . |
| 2 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 3 | A cooler customer , it is suggested , would somehow have sought and found a diplomatic solution . |
| 4 | By happy chance , I had found a private hotel only fifty yards from the Danube and which , unlike its skyscraper neighbours immediately across the river , such as the fashionable Intercontinental , did not cost vast sums of hard currency . |
| 5 | Two Winslow Homers , an oil and a watercolour , were both somewhat problematic : ‘ The unruly calf ’ , from the Pauline Woolworth Trust , showing a boy trying to coax a tethered calf to move ( lot 36 est. $1–1.5 million ) was very flat but still found a private buyer at $1.1 million ( £687,500 ) . |
| 6 | Power-plant maker Bergmann-Borsig ( above ) has found a western buyer . |
| 7 | Once , a message had been sent to Ford in Hollywood , entreating aid for the Navahos after a hard winter , and the director had found a Western script to make in Monument Valley simply to bring some money to the tribe . |
| 8 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 9 | ICI has found a successful way of dealing with this waste without causing any harm to the public in the form of emissions from incineration , so perhaps there is good news to come . |
| 10 | Iraq 's state paper production company has found a successful method of recycling printed paper into writing paper and school notebooks . |
| 11 | Having found a successful formula , he kept to it . |
| 12 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 13 | Sedimentologists have now found a wide variety of applications for CL , and it has become a very important tool for petrographic analysis . |
| 14 | Police who searched the house of Baland in Blois after his arrest are reported to have found a wide range of forgeries including four Chagall drawings , four works by Dérain , ten by Dufy , two by Jean Cocteau , a Camille Pissarro and eighteen drawings described as being by ‘ Maîtres de l'école de Pont-Aven ’ . |
| 15 | In the reported cases there can be found a wide range of different approaches , from that which treats the Convention as exclusively regulating the procedures to be followed to that which recognises the availability of the Convention but asserts that the powers and practice of United States courts are essentially unaffected . |
| 16 | Already , before he has found a theological universe in which to create them , they have the feeling of lost souls , fodder for hell . |
| 17 | She had found a traditional-style establishment , full of oak beams and dried flowers , which specialised in meat grilled on an open fire in the restaurant itself . |
| 18 | But an out-of-work military leader more often found a war-ridden frontier where he could operate without needing to consult his king . |
| 19 | I think a lot of local authorities in particular have now found a tremendous benefit that can accrue from investing in community arts work . |
| 20 | The situation was further complicated by those like Stubbes and Perkins who saw dress contusion as symptomatic of impending social collapse , and those like James I whose hatred of female cross-dressing introduced a misogynistic factor which antedated current social anxiety yet found a powerful focus in it . |
| 21 | Agribusiness has also found a profitable outlet in the production of animal feed . |
| 22 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 23 | This one has found a cosy hole in an insulation , covering a disused pipe to an oil fired power centre . |
| 24 | I 've found a super husband for Harriet . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That particular snap prompted the memory , the afternoon returning as she stared at it — the sandwiches had been of marmite , Edward had found a hawk-moth caterpillar . |
| 27 | Even those they later reject are found a loving home with a member of the Force . |
| 28 | John Rhead arrived and , after only a few minutes , we knew we had found a genuine birder . |
| 29 | With her sensuous smile and her bare shoulders , she could be likened to a contented cat who knows she has found a good home . |
| 30 | Once you have found a good retailer do n't fall into the trap of also buying from sources that are less ideal . |