Example sentences of "find [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accordance with Sod 's law , I found resistance in the final section . |
| 2 | For pupils of below average ability it is not so unusual to find discussions of the whole curriculum taking place , perhaps because of their perceived ‘ low ’ status or because there are no public examination constraints . |
| 3 | Given his definition of class , Poulantzas has got to find traces of the working class in the political and ideological spheres . |
| 4 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 5 | By the 1960s enthusiasm for such industrial-type resettlement units was waning , and the rising unemployment of the late 1960S and 1970s made it increasingly difficult for people with chronic mental disorder to find work on the open job market . |
| 6 | Paratroopers ( from the left ) Alex Poole , Eric Sekwalor , John Sowerby and Sean Ollsson came third in the four-man push competition organised by the British Bobsleigh Association to find crews for the new season . |
| 7 | Not surprising , you might think , in animals designed by Darwinian evolution to find associations in the real world . |
| 8 | The democracy movement had been brutally suppressed in 1989 but idealism and popular opposition bubbled up again and found allies in the younger generation of Communist leaders that followed the death of Deng Xiaoping . |
| 9 | The Far East is also an important area but it has been difficult to find firms of the requisite standard who are independent . |
| 10 | They found conditions in the three-bedsit property ‘ quite unacceptable ’ and served notice on Hussein to undertake immediate repairs and maintenance . |
| 11 | She went out and found Jack at the nursing station with Jake Hunter , the obs and gynae senior registrar . |
| 12 | And he found amusement in the slumbering Court . |
| 13 | For example , EMI spent millions of pounds developing its Nobel prize-winning medical scanner in the early 1970s , only to find that competitors found ways around the complex wall of protecting patents for several hundred thousand pounds . |
| 14 | Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem . |
| 15 | On a number of occasions I found members of the royal household resting . |
| 16 | The 20-year-old from Portsmouth found space on the six-yard line to tap in Gordon Durie 's cross after half an hour . |
| 17 | It was these ideas that found favour with the Royal Society . |
| 18 | The argument in favour of a divided profession which found favour with the Royal Commission was that the existence of a separate branch of the profession ensured that there was a body of specialist advocates available to all solicitors , which would be dispersed if the two branches were fused . |
| 19 | The Canadian analysis confirmed the findings of a recent US General Accounting Office study that found prices for the same drug to be higher in the United States than in Canada . |
| 20 | To understand is to reproduce the order in the minds of actors ; to explain is to find causes in the scientific manner . |
| 21 | Most of the party leaders were in any case inherited from Balfour and it would take time to find men of the new stamp , even if this were possible . |
| 22 | They found refuge in the Ottoman empire from Morocco to Moldavia when the Catholic monarchs of Spain and Portugal drove them out . |
| 23 | Investigations had been halted since December 1990 when the Delhi High Court found irregularities in the preliminary charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) . |
| 24 | Firms can help in other ways too , such as by providing company housing for employees who are unable to find property in the new area before the date of their transfer . |
| 25 | However , we found indications in the last chapter that this could lead to a very large number of possible word strings . |
| 26 | It is the solution that offers the best balance between advantages and disadvantages — the animals gain the greatest degree of mutual protection from predators whilst sacrificing the least in terms of their ability to find food in the inhospitable terrain . |
| 27 | Reagan found understanding of the other side every bit as hard . |
| 28 | Ray , who runs a local lost and found bureau for the National Petwatch organisation , took the dog in while he tried to trace the owner . |
| 29 | The new undergraduate rooms in the Hodgkin Quadrangle have proved a most welcome addition now that it is both difficult and expensive for undergraduates to find accommodation on the open market . |
| 30 | The effect of a new settlement south east of York would be to increase those levels so that people with from Greater York , would find would not be able to find accommodation within the new settlement and therefore the total housing requirement of Greater York would be increased and housing needs would not be met . |