Example sentences of "[noun] to find the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Many surveys took place over 18 months to find the ideal site . |
| 6 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 7 | The figures are from the government 's Institute for Industrial Research and Standards ( IIRS ) , which is working on a confidential study to find the missing waste . |
| 8 | Durham county council 's deputy leader , Coun. Bob Pendlebury , said : ‘ We are making immediate representations to the Government , but if we do not get a favourable response , we will have to cut back our education budget by up to £3m. to find the extra money . |
| 9 | While that particular strain of thinking was busy degenerating into New Pop , scholars , as they will , peeled back this pop cartoon to find the real thing feeding it from beneath … torch singers . |
| 10 | It is difficult for a European to find the rational basis for this optimism . |
| 11 | It is that Lady Susan Hussey , the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , rang me to give directions to find the fateful villa , 12 miles from St Tropez . |
| 12 | It was slow work to find the English gold guineas that we needed . |
| 13 | It has taken me seven years to find the right school for my son . |
| 14 | Failure to find the right concept at the first attempt simply leads to a second attempt and a third attempt . |
| 15 | Hopeful forays onto the slopes above the town produced poor snow , wet people and a complete failure to find the mysterious Notch . |
| 16 | Next , consult Column 1 of your SMP Tables to find the expected week of confinement ( the week in which the baby is expected ) . |
| 17 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |
| 18 | It is the actor 's art to find the conventional sign . |
| 19 | They had reached the auberge to find the entire Gauthier family — Monsieur , Madame and five daughters — assembled round the reception desk in excited and voluble discussion . |
| 20 | When therefore he arrived home late on Friday night to find the grey thing with ears like knitted dishcloths in his favourite chair he was displeased . |
| 21 | It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building . |
| 22 | The second amplifier should perform in the same way , but the core will have to be rotated through about 90° to find the corresponding zero field position . |
| 23 | An experienced accident investigator working for many years in many countries soon gets to know which States are prepared to make considerable efforts to find the true cause of an accident and thereby acquires substantial knowledge of the problems and pitfalls that can be encountered . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ We have struggled all season to find the right guy but Lloyd Davies came up trumps when it really mattered . ’ |
| 25 | And when opening a table you still ca n't browse through directory trees to find the required file ; you can specify a default directory , but for any other directory you have to spell out the name , . |
| 26 | I found the deceptive cairn and followed the instructions to find the real summit over a slight drop in the ridge . |
| 27 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 28 | The three convoys arrived at Kufra to find the small oasis packed with men and vehicles , as the other raiding groups had also gathered there . |
| 29 | The task for a green turtle ( Figure 4.3 ) to find a tiny island in the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean , or a salmon to find the exact river tributary in which it was born appear to us exceedingly difficult . |
| 30 | Then she stepped out into the crisp early evening air to find the western sky streaked with reds and golds , and the shadows in the distant hills turning to violet . |