Example sentences of "[noun] to find [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Through photographic images we see a few of the attempts by contemporary artists to find the real face .
2 Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’
3 In the first , largely-conscious activity , the reader engages intellectually with various themes in the text to find a central meaning .
4 Such considerations lead to the idea that the way non-words are read is by first dividing them up into their graphemes ( CHOOPH-CH + OO + PH or SLOATCH — S + L + OA + TCH ) and then using a table of grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules to find the appropriate phoneme for each grapheme .
5 Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons .
6 So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there .
7 Left alone , Dr Neil walked to the kitchen to find a strange scene .
8 The shape matrices are then tested against those of the appropriate sub-dictionaries to find the best match , either between the unknown word and a dictionary entry , or a composite for suffixed forms .
9 It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth .
10 This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up .
11 It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars .
12 But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’
13 Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma .
14 Regrettably the customer 's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant .
15 Attempts to find a medical explanation had failed and police had been called in , he told Nottingham Crown Court , where a former nurse , Beverley Allitt , faced 26 charges , including four of murder .
16 There had been many unsuccessful attempts to find a satisfactory solution but none of them , unlike the present invention , actually worked .
17 Many people were by this time weary of the various attempts to find a satisfactory form of government and they believed the return of the monarchy was the best solution .
18 Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions .
19 It was a struggle to find a suitable term for these logical objects — the term ‘ logical object ’ is not in itself one to set the blood tingling .
20 Libyan authorities raised the alarm and Mr Arafat 's senior adviser at PLO headquarters , Mr Bassam Abu Sharif , immediately asked the US to use its spy satellites to find the missing plane .
21 The aligned sequence dataset was analysed with PAUP 3.0 ( ref. 20 ) using the Branch and Bound algorithm to find the shortest tree(s) .
22 I had hope to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time we 've had .
23 The court 's willingness to find an implied licence or permission was particularly strong in the case of children , especially where there was something attractive to children on the land .
24 It seems that for a computer to find a strong play , it first has to arrange the options in order of strength .
25 Four crossword puzzle addicts with assorted academic degrees ( including a professor of modern languages ! ) are decidedly miffed at their inability to find a plausible solution to question 2 , so I have written in what came first to my mind .
26 For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given .
27 Table 2.11 shows that inability to find a permanent job remained the most frequent reason given by young people for taking temporary work .
28 It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between .
29 It took him 10 months to find a suitable job
30 ‘ Many surveys took place over 18 months to find the ideal site .
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