Example sentences of "found the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found the rural areas to have a very low incidence of head lice , but for urban children it was indeed quite high , and varied significantly by age and sex . |
| 2 | They flew home and found the blazing huts just about to fall down . |
| 3 | She tried to think more rationally , to dismiss the darker possibilities from her mind , but after what had happened here in the past week or so she found the worrying thoughts came more easily . |
| 4 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 5 | Single capacity was supposed to reduce conflicts of interest as brokers found the best prices from jobbers for their clients and jobbers competed amongst each other to produce fair prices . |
| 6 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 7 | William Elstobb found the eighteenth-century fenmen content with ‘ uncomfortable accommodations ’ ; and Vancouver wrote of Burwell in 1794 : ‘ Any attempt in contemplation for the better drainage of this fen is considered hostile to the true interests of these deluded people . ’ |
| 8 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 9 | With an average staffing enhancement in Phase 3 schools of 0.9 , and with the majority of appointments made at MPG level , many such teachers found the developmental aspects of their job specifications constantly subverted by the need to cover for colleagues . |
| 10 | I felt liberated without the load , as if I could fly , and I found the cruel surroundings suddenly beautiful . |
| 11 | For instance , the Danish Twin Registry ( using 4368 twin pairs of the same sex born from 1870 to 1910 ) found the following concordances . |
| 12 | In a random sample of women in Camberwell , the researchers found the following relationships between provoking agents and depression , first among a sample of women who were vulnerable and secondly among a sample of women who were not . |
| 13 | we found the unmarked pits |
| 14 | The trials came to an abrupt end when local fisheries officers found the frozen remains of common dolphins and pilot whales on board the fishing boats . |
| 15 | Lucien found the torn edges of his shirt and with trembling fingers pulled it up over his shoulders . |
| 16 | We went on to the marshes with the soldiers and found the escaped convicts fighting each other . |
| 17 | They found the various members of the company still rigid and separate , like a circle of tent pegs after the tent has blown away . |
| 18 | Only a small minority had claimed unemployment benefit before and so they found the complex procedures bewildering and confusing . |
| 19 | He found the personal habits of the coolie recruiter deeply repugnant and this only increased the resentment he felt at his helpless dependence on him for replacements to his dwindling labor force . |
| 20 | I knew that Niki had not been happy at Ferrari , that he found the pressure of the Italian press and of Italians in general something abhorrent , that he did n't like being attacked in that country 's three sporting dailies as a failure , and that he found the byzantine intricacies of Ferrari 's Maranello a bit hard to take . |
| 21 | Visiting a number of campuses throughout China at graduation time , I found the official explanations difficult to accept . |
| 22 | A governor 's daughter , travelling to India , found the first-class passengers stuffy and took a fancy to a handsome second-class steward with whom she danced at the fancy dress ball . |
| 23 | I found the early years far harder to cope with than the teens and others often agree with me . |
| 24 | Having been taught , first at an expensive public school and then at Oxford University , to express herself to order , she found the poor creatures who shambled along to 23 Dorman Road every Saturday , Thursday , Monday and Wednesday absolutely no competition at all . |
| 25 | Not that Paracelsus always found the right ones : One wonders how many unfortunates owed their demise to his prescription of mercury to clarify the spleen . |
| 26 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 27 | Wandering around the ruins of its outlying buildings , we found the rough foundations of a sanatorium . |
| 28 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 29 | This policy was adopted by the government as part of its general economic strategy to cut public expenditure and meant that local authorities could only exceed a predetermined level of spending on higher education if they found the additional sums of money from the rates . |
| 30 | Eliot noted that in Australian religion Durkheim found the essential elements of all religion , and that for Durkheim communion , not worship , was the essential sentiment . |