Example sentences of "[verb] to find [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 2 | It was not surprising that students tried to find places in the ‘ good ’ work units which offered decent conditions along with a chance of self-development and advancement . |
| 3 | They hope to find clues to the structure of the highly complicated social organisation which hints at a hierarchy with ‘ leaders ’ and ‘ subordinates ’ . |
| 4 | We might expect to find regularities in the roles team members play in relation to the visionary , but this has yet to be established . |
| 5 | Given his definition of class , Poulantzas has got to find traces of the working class in the political and ideological spheres . |
| 6 | Economists working in this field are attempting to find answers to the question of why the various estimates of NAIRU exhibit a persistent tendency to rise over time . |
| 7 | Conceptualising , therefore , is best understood as the mental effort that people make in understanding their circumstances and attempting to find solutions to the practical problems and frustrations they find on a day-to-day basis . |
| 8 | However , public opposition from the Roman Catholic Church in particular and objections from Austrian Airlines to transporting the refugees led the government to announce in early December that it would attempt to find jobs for the Romanians rather than deport them . |
| 9 | When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season , the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo . |
| 10 | Similarly , a group of eighteenth-century French decorative prints by Janinet , Bonnet and others ( the second part of the collection partly sold last summer ) struggled to find buyers in the main , although Stanley Johnson bought the charming ‘ Les Hazards heureux de l'Escarpolette ’ ( lot 243 , est. £2,500–3,500 ) by de Launay after Fragonard for £4,200 ( $6,342 ) and David Tunick outbid Andre Candillier for ‘ The Mariage [ sic ] Presents ’ by Bonnet , part printed in gold ( lot 257 , est. £1,500–2,500 ) which made £4,000 ( $6,040 ) . |
| 11 | The main city centre hospital was packed with injured people , many brought by taxi , and inundated with hundreds of people trying to find relatives among the dead or injured . |
| 12 | The main city centre hospital was packed with injured people , many brought by taxi , and inundated with hundreds of people trying to find relatives among the dead or injured . |
| 13 | Her argument was that the subjects of the old master paintings could be disregarded by a painter who wished to find lessons for the present in the artistic practice of the past . |
| 14 | We would have liked to rebuild it but then we had to find places for the people to go and being a narrow valley it , most of the housing was put at the end of the town . |