Example sentences of "we have find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've found a new lead guitar . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 4 | ‘ And we think we 've found a Roman villa . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At least we 've found a suitable base on the French coast and the pilot looks promising . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , can you come across to the Gun Shop ? 1 think we 've found a serious defect which could affect the Warrior fleet . ’ |
| 7 | ( 22 ) Margaret is a rather meteorological expert they bought some extremely clerical collars This effect is seen very clearly in the cases where the same word can be used in each of the different ways ; thus the adjective musical can perfectly well be modified for intensity when it is used ascriptively : ( 23 ) even as a child Naomi had a very musical voice but when it is associative , the result is again unacceptable : ( 24 ) we 've found a legal text and a very musical treatise 2.6 It is not necessary to be a linguist to feel that there is a difference in the two ways of using attributives . |
| 8 | We 've found a tiny offshoot of imagination |
| 9 | And now we 've found a fine warren and got into it without even having to fight , you 've got to do your best to upset everyone ! |
| 10 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 11 | ‘ See , we 've found a few seeps of underground water that 's close enough to the surface for things to grow . |
| 12 | First we had to find a new propeller and this was delivered by Sam , an engineer from Technical Branch , who made a record marathon run in his tiny van from Southampton to join us at Oban . |
| 13 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 14 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 15 | John Rhead arrived and , after only a few minutes , we knew we had found a genuine birder . |
| 16 | We had found a vital step along the route from synapse to nucleus . |
| 17 | If electric cars are going to have a significant future , we have to find a cleaner way to generate electricity . " |
| 18 | He justified that approach on the basis that " the lease is a commercial document and we have to find a commercial solution to the problem posed " ) . |
| 19 | In conclusion we have found a persistent tachygastria in the fasting state in three of four patients with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction with a known neuropathic basis for their condition , and in none of 15 control patients , none of three patients with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction as a result of muscle disease , and none of four with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction with an unknown basis . |
| 20 | Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs . |
| 21 | I am not sure whether we have found a professional group that the Government have as yet failed to offend , but if one exists , it is a growing sector of Shewsbury 's business community . |
| 22 | Unlike Payne et al , we have found a high frequency of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in AIDS patients with substantially raised serum alkaline phosphatase . |
| 23 | We have found a significant association with alcohol intake and with alcohol markers such as mean corpuscular volume and the asparate aminotransferase:alamine amunotransferase ratio , but not with the duration of the alcohol intake . |
| 24 | Whatever Graham Greene intended by the use of the label ‘ entertainment ’ for certain of his novels , some of us have found a greater intuition and emotional force in The Man Within than in the more elaborate analysis of personality in The Heart of the Matter or A Burnt-Out Case . |