Example sentences of "[verb] to find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not have far to go to find an enthralling abundance of birds . |
| 2 | My feeling is that Leeds are struggling to find a traditional centre-half , and until they do , will look in trouble whenever the ball is in their penalty box . |
| 3 | Are you struggling to find a particular product or feel you have a need which is n't being catered for ? |
| 4 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 5 | When the need arose to find a new lord lieutenant for East Sussex in succession to the Queen 's horseracing chum , the Marquess of Abergavenny , the name which emerged from Downing Street was not that of another grand county family but Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson , a retired naval engineering officer whose address , 74 , Dyke Road , Brighton , hardly hinted at rolling acres . |
| 6 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 7 | Although the authors concluded that the results indicated that mycobacteria might have a role in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease , a further search for mycobacteria in the affected intestinal tissue with antibodies to M paratuberculosis strain linda , M tuberculosis , and the common mycobacterial antigen lipoarabinomannan failed to find a positive reaction in any of 67 specimens from 30 affected patients . |
| 8 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 9 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 10 | This story concerns the sounds of footsteps walking in the ballast ; no one was seen but the sounds were very convincing and one respects the account of this mystery from Mr Leslie , who certainly did n't believe in the supernatural , preferring to find a logical explanation of this sort of thing . |
| 11 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 12 | For example , the history seminar had to struggle to find a two-hour block and the language class could never achieve the desired continuity by organizing its contact time over three , let alone four days of the week . |
| 13 | Let us assume that you want to find a particular book and that you know the title and author . |
| 14 | It sometimes happens that you want to find a particular book but you have forgotten , or never knew , the name of the author . |
| 15 | For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs . |
| 16 | One therefore has to find a new theory that combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle . |
| 17 | On top of this BR now has to find an extra £100m a year to pay for an unnecessarily large safety programme , one result of the Clapham rail crash . |
| 18 | If there are doubts about the search firm 's ability to work at a senior level , say to find a chief executive , the client may well invite two or three firms in to pitch competitively and see who has the best overall track record and appears most attractive and experienced to the Board . |
| 19 | We expect to find a guilty incident or relationship because he writes continually of guilt ; we expect to find sin because he speaks of atonement and expiation . |
| 20 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 21 | So what is happening to find a political solution ? |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 23 | Finally , you will need to find a suitable storage container for the bags , to enable them to lie flat , keep them out of direct sunlight and free of dust . |
| 24 | As an example , take a spider in which each individual needs to find a good place in which to put its web , but good places for making webs are in short supply . |
| 25 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 26 | This agreement between the governments in London and Dublin was an attempt to promote co-operation between them and to try to find a joint approach to at least some of the problems of Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | The patient should be encouraged to try to find a suitable explanation first , before the therapist considers providing one of his own . |
| 28 | My personal view is that one can be more perceptive in a project where one finds the whole field fascinating , but it is vitally important to try to find a neutral position . |
| 29 | Thus , it seems that it is misguided even to try to find a single deficit theory of Broca 's aphasia , because Broca 's aphasia is a clinical syndrome , not a theoretical syndrome . |
| 30 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |