Example sentences of "[coord] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the country 's nuclear experts really are as bright as they would like us to think , they should be bright enough to come up with a convincing case for spending so much money , or to find cheaper ways of demonstrating the technology . |
| 2 | Within hours of the reports appearing in the press , vets and cat sanctuaries were flooded with requests to have cats destroyed or to find them new homes . |
| 3 | McDonnell Douglas has put its wholly-owned McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company ( MDH ) on the market , either for outright sale or to find a joint venture partner to provide development capital . |
| 4 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 5 | If you are fortunate enough to own , or to find , an incunabulum or book printed before 1500 , do not be too alarmed if it has no title , since many books of the period had none , at least in the sense that we understand , the publisher/printer contenting himself with a curt statement of the title and author 's name , known as a ‘ label title ’ , or else a small introductory paragraph ( sometimes using a different coloured ink ) known as the ‘ incipit ’ , from the Latin ‘ it begins ’ . |
| 6 | This is OK and remember there is no ‘ right ’ way to feel , or to find support . |
| 7 | Even with our limited experience in the UK of signing in the classroom , there are considerable pressures already to have the ‘ correct ’ use of signs , or to find the single , standard method of teaching in sign . |
| 8 | Rather than finishing school and entering work , young people were as likely to enter training schemes , temporary college courses , part time and temporary employment , odd jobs of all kinds or to find themselves unemployed as they were to find jobs directly . |
| 9 | The Chinese never felt that they had to go anywhere much beyond their own frontiers to acquire knowledge or to find riches ; to the extent that they did go abroad , it was to the west , by land or by hugging the coast . |
| 10 | It is infuriating to have to mow an extra half width , or to find that you can not turn a corner without complicated manoeuvres . |
| 11 | They were bought mainly by Labour voters , single mothers and divorced men unable to buy accommodation at market value or to find accommodation through the housing list . |
| 12 | What your suffering friend needs at such a time is to have you just listen , not to judge or to find the answer but to offer practical support if necessary . |
| 13 | Many land animals use sound to call to each other , for example , to warn of danger or to find mates . |
| 14 | things or to find out whether you were capable of having children or not . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thus , it is contrary to natural justice to inform an individual of only one complaint against him if there are two , or to find him guilty of a different offence from the one he was actually charged with . |
| 17 | When she uses the scheme she stays at her desk whilst pupils queue for help , for marking or to find out what they should do next . |
| 18 | to provide unemployed people , particularly those who have been unemployed for longer than six months and those in the inner cities , with job opportunities and help in job search skills , or opportunities to become self-employed or to find appropriate training ; |
| 19 | To provide unemployed people , particularly those who have been unemployed for longer than six months and those in inner cities , with job opportunities and help in job search skills , or opportunities to become self-employed or to find appropriate training . |
| 20 | She wanted to go back , or to find somewhere that was cool and full of shade . |
| 21 | Can he tell the House a little more about any plans that he and the Government may have to recruit or to find peaceful employment for some of the rocket scientists and nuclear experts of Russia and , perhaps , even of the Ukraine ? |
| 22 | You can join a group to increase your own enjoyment of birds , to meet like-minded people , or to find ways of increasing your involvement by joining the committee , or raising funds , or taking part in practical conservation work . |
| 23 | Obviously , an employee is free to apply for another position even with a rival of his present employer , or to find premises in which to set up a future business so long as in doing so he is not in breach of any valid express term in his employment contract : see Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 . |
| 24 | I meant to try again and better , either to get at him , or to find a messenger who would carry word to Harry inside Parfois . |
| 25 | That is to say we are , we all need renewal and new ideas , but we stick to old quarrels and re-run old battles because we do n't know how to face up to the real problems at the present , nor to find ways of working together for a worthwhile future . |
| 26 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 27 | ‘ We must harness market forces and the market place to prevent pollution , to change the sort of conduct that degrades the nation 's resources , and to find the most efficient and effective ways of delivering environmental quality . ’ |
| 28 | The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 29 | ‘ Use the remaining few weeks to say your goodbyes and to find another job , ’ he had said . |
| 30 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |