Example sentences of "to find the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to find the money necessary to carry out Amnesty 's work has always been a worry , and from the very beginning the Section Office asked groups for help in this area . |
| 2 | In some writing today , too , it is possible to find the words critic and historian being used interchangeably . |
| 3 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 4 | I 'm never going to find the spirit of true Englishness there . |
| 5 | And , although nobody wishes to be exploited with low wages and very difficult conditions , it is frankly better to find the ways and means of presenting yourself somehow , than not perform at all . |
| 6 | The three Shepherds wake to find the fourth Shepherd , Mak , lying still beside them . |
| 7 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 8 | Ever dug up a bed of apparently flourishing potatoes , only to find the tubers riddles with holes where the slugs have been at them ? |
| 9 | Having looked unsuccessfully for such a bird house , I would like to find the name of a stockist . |
| 10 | You must develop the ability to find the centre of an area of lift quickly instead of losing it , and you can not have too much practice and experience . |
| 11 | This is a matter of constantly exploring out a few yards on almost every circle to try to find the best possible area of lift . |
| 12 | You need to find the right one for your skin type . |
| 13 | Given this premise , we should not be surprised to find the police are in the forefront of support for proposals such as the introduction of identity cards ; it was not surprising to find the 1988 Superintendents ' Association conference not only supporting this motion , but arguing for the creation of twenty-four hour armed patrols throughout the country and making a plea for a national motorway squad . |
| 14 | Given this premise , we should not be surprised to find the police are in the forefront of support for proposals such as the introduction of identity cards ; it was not surprising to find the 1988 Superintendents ' Association conference not only supporting this motion , but arguing for the creation of twenty-four hour armed patrols throughout the country and making a plea for a national motorway squad . |
| 15 | Many entries face unexpected travel delays and arrive to find the tournament already progressed beyond their level of entry . |
| 16 | No problem to find the World War Two hero — owner of the bomber jacket — and to change the colour of his trousers to turquoise at a glance . |
| 17 | ‘ To find the correct homeopathic remedy for any condition , the symptoms are diagnosed in those terms , and the Materia Medica places them under those headings : location , sensation etc . ’ |
| 18 | Everybody responds differently to weight training and you must experiment to find the number of reps between 8 and 12 which will promote maximum growth best . |
| 19 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 20 | You may not be able to find the help you would like in your area . |
| 21 | We are not able to list all the available sources of help in this factsheet , but we hope that these suggestions will help you to find the help that you need . |
| 22 | A similar description can be given to various parts of A Month in the Country , such as the scène d'action where the entire cast tries to find the lost key , the exquisite pas d'action of Vera and the Tutor , and Kolia 's excited variation playing with a ball . |
| 23 | AT LEAST Mrs Donaldson ( September ) does n't have to ensure the bearded drinker 's frequent first encounter on the glasses front , which is to find the barman reaching for a pint glass before a word 's been said . |
| 24 | Whatever method is employed to make height at the overlap , some 40ft ( 12m ) up the final corner , there is still a long reach to be made to find the hold in the crack above . |
| 25 | As a septuagenarian , he made the trip to Ireland on the back of his son Eon 's motor-bike to find the Killarney Fern — long since believed gone from its single recorded site on Moel Hebog in Snowdonia . |
| 26 | The first step is to find the centre of the room by linking the mid-points of opposite walls with string lines . |
| 27 | Even if a permanent garden circuit is contemplated , it makes sense to try out the lights on a temporary basis to find the best positions to fix your power points . |
| 28 | From here it 's a simple juggling act to find the best sizes to suit the application . |
| 29 | I was as shocked as you to find the advert in our magazine and fully understand and applaud the concern of all those who telephoned . |
| 30 | Not , of course , all its human stuff ; when Dostoevsky told his biographer that the task of his own deeper realism was ‘ to find the human in the human being ’ , he meant there is more to us than filthy earth , and this ‘ more ’ must be found . |