Example sentences of "[noun] to find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | In the first , largely-conscious activity , the reader engages intellectually with various themes in the text to find a central meaning . |
| 3 | Left alone , Dr Neil walked to the kitchen to find a strange scene . |
| 4 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Regrettably the customer 's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There had been many unsuccessful attempts to find a satisfactory solution but none of them , unlike the present invention , actually worked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had hope to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time we 've had . |
| 12 | It seems that for a computer to find a strong play , it first has to arrange the options in order of strength . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Table 2.11 shows that inability to find a permanent job remained the most frequent reason given by young people for taking temporary work . |
| 16 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 17 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job |
| 18 | This method of narration allows the reader to take part in the initial experience , to share in the inquiry into its meaning from the start , and then to join in the subsequent dialogue with which Wordsworth engages ‘ the Mind out there ’ ( or the ‘ Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ’ ) in his attempt to find a fuller explanation . |
| 19 | Jan. 15 In an apparent attempt to find a political solution , Siyad Barre announces appointment of " national reconciliation committee " ; rebels reject subsequent reports that USC has agreed to ceasefire . |
| 20 | A recent attempt to find a dynamical explanation for the observed motions of atomic and molecular gas in the central regions has provided independent evidence of a stellar bar forcing noncircular motions in the central regions . |
| 21 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 22 | One generation had come to understand the trends within the International and the meaning of Stalinism , while another was ready to disregard such questions in an attempt to find a social solution to essentially personal problems " . |
| 23 | It was preoccupied above all else with the " attempt to find a social solution to essentially personal problems " : family conflicts , class origins , emotional traumas . |
| 24 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 25 | One promising line of further reconnaissance involved the attempt to find a fundamental role for waves where no one had previously supposed they were relevant . |
| 26 | The Teesside Development Corporation says talks are continuing in a bid to find a new location for Hartlepool 's Clarence Road bus depot . |
| 27 | Most of all we need action to find a long term solution . |
| 28 | The research to find a European version of taxol is likely to continue for some years . |
| 29 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
| 30 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |