Example sentences of "to find out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 2 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 3 | He found only Ulysses deeply human , with his craftiness and patience , and Oedipus , who wished to find out the unaccommodable truth about himself , and Perseus , who kept his heart from turning to stone . |
| 4 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 5 | But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her . |
| 6 | ‘ The fascinating thing ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ would be to find out the real limit of this power of yours . |
| 7 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 8 | Add VAT to find out the total bill . |
| 9 | Julia Noon , aged 12 , of St Anne 's on Sea , Lancashire , took the politic and patriotic route and wrote to 10 Downing Street to find out the Prime Minister 's favourite foods . |
| 10 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 11 | It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year . |
| 12 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 13 | The trouble is , can we afford to find out the hard way ? ? |
| 14 | PATRICK ROBERTSON was born in Edinburgh at 11.22pm on October 19 , 1968 ( he recently wrote to the hospital to find out the precise hour and minute for his astrologer ) . |
| 15 | ( c ) Agreed price It is necessary to find out the precise price negotiated between the parties . |
| 16 | , writes : MY DAUGHTER is getting married in October and we are trying to find out the proper rules . |
| 17 | Booth , prompted by a number of newspaper and magazine articles , was concerned to find out the true extent of poverty among the working classes of London at that time , and he collected vast quantities of data about them , using a combination of early survey techniques and other less statistical methods . |
| 18 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |
| 19 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 20 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 21 | I decided that I should ask a friend for a loan of his electronic pH meter to find out the exact difference between the two tanks . |
| 22 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I shall seek to find out the exact number of times and shall write to the Hon. Member , but I think that what I said was absolutely correct : that the sanctions are severe and are rarely used . |
| 23 | ‘ Said she wanted to find out the latest angle on the police battle against drugs . ’ |
| 24 | Determined to arrange a meeting to discuss it ( postponed as it has been from summer to autumn , autumn to December , December to ‘ early in the the New Year ’ and so on … ) , she rang the Scottish Office direct in an attempt to find out the proposed date of revelation and publication . |
| 25 | It is perfectly proper to raise aesthetic questions in courses in biological sciences or ( in courses on occupational therapy ) on the aesthetic quality of aids given to patients ; or to ask moral questions about work in nuclear physics or ( in legal studies ) about sentencing policy in the courts ; or to find out the historical development of any subject . |
| 26 | If there is one of interest in your area , please contact the appropriate person to find out the full details and whether places are still available . |
| 27 | Also , at the end of the day it is arguable that all that the register needs to show are the principal charges over the company 's property since anyone dealing with the company can seek to find out the full extent to which the company 's property has been charged once put on notice that some charges have been created . |