Example sentences of "to find any " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentions dog 's tooth violets and despite an intensive search , I have been unable to find any . |
| 2 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 3 | Despite reference to seed catalogues and gardening books , I have been unable to find any information on its propagation , either from seed or from cuttings . |
| 4 | Recently , I obtained a saw rabbeter ( sic ) for my Bridges drill but , unfortunately , was unable to find any of the moulding cutters ( STD825-829 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was Newley 's ex-wife and Rossiter 's Cinzano co-star , Joan Collins , who volunteered this judgement , for it 's hard to find any other connection between a strictly domestic sitcom performer and one of the highest-earning acts in Vegas and Atlantic City . |
| 6 | We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us . |
| 7 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 8 | In their report they noted that , despite her lack of education , they were unable to find any of her practices heretical and |
| 9 | Nathan Lazar woke up late and was unable to find any human sign of life down in the workshops . |
| 10 | Needless to say it has so far proved difficult to find any sacrificial lambs among the building trade . |
| 11 | It is unknown to find any subject of Her Majesty who does not say , when asked , that he cares passionately for the Health Service , and believes that more money should be spent on it . |
| 12 | He looked around hoping to find any sign of the Bookman but , as he thought , there was nothing . |
| 13 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 14 | This failure to find any effect of presenting the S2 during pre-exposure confirms the findings of an earlier set of experiments by Westbrook et al . |
| 15 | Those that did criticize or review the film , while being in total agreement with the mainstream that it was a ‘ good film ’ , were unable to find any particularly political reasons for such valuations . |
| 16 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 17 | In his researches at Wimbledon Public Library he had not been able to find any really cheering quotations on the subject of death . |
| 18 | ‘ Unable to find any resting-place for the soles of their feet ’ ; ‘ roaming about the watery world , compasses in hand , and discovering no rest for them ’ ; references to ‘ The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot ’ , Gen. 6 : 4 . |
| 19 | Karelius tried to think of arguments why she should not be , but failed to find any . |
| 20 | Similarly , with a pellet accumulation , the identity of the owl or bird of prey is revealed by the size and shape of the pellets and their location , and it is not necessary to find any of its bones in order to identify the predator . |
| 21 | And , certainly , it was difficult to find any substantial difference in approach between authorities on the basis of party political control . |
| 22 | However , Nielsen and Videbech ( 1973 ) failed to find any effect on the suicide rate of the introduction of a community service to an island population . |
| 23 | But the latest results from an experiment designed to detect neutrino oscillations show that it has failed to find any such effects , as the group leader Felix Boehm announced at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society last week in Baltimore . |
| 24 | Despite all this talk of changes in consciousness , no one has managed to find any physiological changes that uniquely distinguish hypnosis from the waking state . |
| 25 | Borings made at the deepest of the present pits have failed to find any bottom to the deposit . |
| 26 | It is , in fact , impossible to find any poisonous animal that actively goes in search of victims unless it is feeding . |
| 27 | Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded . |
| 28 | Another trial carried out in New Zealand , and widely quoted in the medical literature , apparently failed to find any link between the mother 's diet and colic in breast-fed babies . |
| 29 | One of the early theories about the causes of hyperkinetic syndrome put it down to brain damage , but research has failed to find any evidence of this . |
| 30 | Before 1400 there were no censuses in the modern sense , and at all periods before the nineteenth century it is difficult to find any precise evidence for population . |