Example sentences of "we find a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found a nice level spot under some pine trees with a bed of soft pine needles facing the lake and soon after dark we were happy to crawl under the sleeping blankets . |
| 2 | He had a taxi waiting , and on arrival we found a long cloth-draped table in the centre of the room , around which were seated what seemed to be the entire Chinese population of the city — some 30 Chinese , mainly from laundries and restaurants . |
| 3 | So we entered the Castle , where we found a cheerful old man sitting by the fire . |
| 4 | When we went a little farther to the south , we found a large denuded zone along the seventeenth parallel , the line that divided the country then . |
| 5 | At all these ports we found a mounting oil-related traffic boom and at several like Dundee , Montrose and Invergordon , parts of the harbours were being extended to accommodate supply vessels and rig construction work . |
| 6 | In a previous study we found a constant phospholipid composition in different parts of the stomach ( fundus , corpus , and antrum ) . |
| 7 | It had once been the offices of a film company and inside we found a dozen Iraqi soldiers in battledress , claiming to be Palestinians , members of the Arab Liberation Front . |
| 8 | One might object to this definition of free will on the grounds that once we find a complete unified theory we will be able to predict what people will do . |
| 9 | Returning to the Kayapo , we find a well-developed ecological sense , as these people understand animal plant interactions and the similarities between natural and man-made gaps . |
| 10 | Just as there was a great outpouring of the Spirit at the coming of the Messiah — prophecy , divine begetting , voice from heaven , baptism and so forth ; so at the beginning of the age of the Church 's witness-bearing to Jesus we find a similar intensive manifestation of the Spirit . |
| 11 | Can we find a common underlying principle that explains the variation ? |