Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [adj] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am her mother , so naturally I 'm concerned to find a perfect match . |
| 2 | Obviously I was interested to find his entries for 1934 . ’ |
| 3 | So I was surprised to find it rather ugly , with narrow dirty streets , and people crowded into tiny houses . |
| 4 | When she went inside she was surprised to find the bag on the floor . |
| 5 | To put it differently , if spatiotemporal relations are to be appealed to in support of the thesis that there can be numerically , not just qualitatively , distinguishable ontological existents , it is necessary , in the first place , to clarify the conditions under which such relations can be significantly claimed to reflect the structure of an objective world , and in trying to do so we are likely to find that in some form or other we need to assume what such relations are supposed to explain . |
| 6 | So it is important to find the internal structures in fossil bivalves , as in the brachiopods . |
| 7 | The reason is simple , if you have taken the trouble to read it the content is fresh in your mind and so it is easier to find a reply . |
| 8 | CORNED BEEF : As long as it 's not infected with botulism ( which is pretty rare ) , corned beef is sterile from the tin and so it 's unusual to find high bug counts . |
| 9 | So it was awful to find I 'd done something wrong . |
| 10 | Brian , emerging from the bathroom , heard his wife talking and imagined she was with Camille , thus he was surprised to find her alone . |
| 11 | Thus it is rare to find a wholly wooden wheel intact today . |
| 12 | Thus it was necessary to find a readily available background material which the chosen instrument would perceive as significantly darker than the plants . |
| 13 | Also he was interested to find out more about the dead girl and her father , Ipuky . |
| 14 | Now this is set up differently cos this is set up very sensibly , so that you can fill in who wrote it , when , what date and what it 's about , and when you try and find it later it 's easier to find instead of scrapping through lots of files that do n't have a long document . |
| 15 | The Scram field , however , is understood to contain gas reserves of somewhere between 100–200 Bcf , so clearly it is possible to find larger accumulations of gas in Zechstein reservoirs . |
| 16 | Clearly it is important to find strategies to reduce the proportion of time children spend awaiting attention and distracted . |
| 17 | Now I was ready to find out more about the rest of the island . |
| 18 | ‘ Some people needed a lot of encouragement when it first opened , but now it 's hard to find a time when it is n't crowded . ’ |
| 19 | Maybe , but would n't you be able to find out who , because of |
| 20 | Today it is commonplace to find business reports and academic textbooks employing complicated statistical and numerical data in interesting visual forms . |
| 21 | and today it 's rare to find a program existing as a single COM or EXE file . |
| 22 | Such is the mood of pessimism here it is hard to find anyone who believes the All Blacks , having won their seven matches in Wales , will face any significant threat during the next fortnight . |
| 23 | NOWADAYS it is rare to find classic golf courses which not only welcome visitors but charge reasonable green fees . |
| 24 | Surely it is hard to find your way in the dark ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Would n't it be grand to find a cellar like that in this day and age ? ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Wherever you find a group within society which feels that what it 's doing is seriously different from everyone else , then you 're likely to find initiation rites , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I did not understand how it was possible to find one 's way in such a jungle . |
| 28 | He thought the goods on display were crude and tasteless ; but sometimes it was possible to find a little gem amongst the mass-produced dross . |
| 29 | MAUREEN : Then it 's easier to find stations on the A set . |
| 30 | Initially it is necessary to find the subjects for study . |