Example sentences of "a [noun sg] find a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a struggle to find a suitable term for these logical objects — the term ‘ logical object ’ is not in itself one to set the blood tingling . |
| 2 | It seems that for a computer to find a strong play , it first has to arrange the options in order of strength . |
| 3 | When a honeybee finds a new source of food , it senses the direction from the hive to the food using the sun as a compass . |
| 4 | The Teesside Development Corporation says talks are continuing in a bid to find a new location for Hartlepool 's Clarence Road bus depot . |
| 5 | Back at the house , she waited , tense , to see whether he would take his things up to another room , but he said nothing about it , only slid into his bag with a sigh that assuaged her ; it was the sigh of a child finding a safe place . |
| 6 | Newton Aycliffe and Peterlee both began to take shape in the late 40s coming out of a need to find a new living and working environment and they were followed by Washington in 1964 . |
| 7 | He struggled for a moment to find a proper answer . |
| 8 | On one occasion a biologist found a two-year-old goat and a golden eagle locked together at the foot of a cliff . |
| 9 | A mouse found a beautiful piece of plum cake , |
| 10 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 11 | It was n't until a physiotherapist found a vertical tear in the hamstring that they had to admit I was injured and that there was nothing wrong with my motivation . |
| 12 | Slowly I began to stumble across other disaffected Irish women and I felt like a traveller finding a friendly inn after a long , cold journey . |
| 13 | A competition to find a new name for the former Tap and Spile pub in Hartlepool has been settled . |
| 14 | What Julius Caesar , and Renaissance drama generally , requires is a rethinking of how characters work as representations , a challenge to find a critical language which enables us to rethink the relation between symbol and character in a sophisticated way . |
| 15 | There are , however , cases which are hard to explain in this way , ; examples are the ability of a rat to find a submerged support , and of a goby to leap to a pool it can not see . |
| 16 | In Neville Russell ( 1987 ) 3 BVC 611 , the first year 's rent was cut by £240,000 because two floors of the building were not needed by Neville Russell , and it would take about a year to find a suitable person to take a sub-lease for those two floors . |
| 17 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 18 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 19 | One generation had come to understand the trends within the International and the meaning of Stalinism , while another was ready to disregard such questions in an attempt to find a social solution to essentially personal problems " . |
| 20 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 21 | This historic search of 1959 was an assignment to find a Chief Executive for ITT , the powerful but then rather dormant telephone equipment corporation , which had been run by a dynasty of ex-service leaders . |