Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to find a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’ |
| 2 | Because there are fewer short than medium-sized men , a suit made to their measurements is less likely to find a buyer , and is knocked down accordingly . |
| 3 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 4 | She was somewhat startled to find a waiter knocking on her door very soon and he came in bearing a tray of tea and a pain-killer , looking at her sadly and murmuring his regrets . |
| 5 | Israel is small and densely populated so it is extremely difficult to find a site for a nuclear plant . |
| 6 | It is also extremely difficult to find a book addressed to you if you are one of the younger girls suffering from an eating disorder . |
| 7 | Why ( is ) it extremely rare to find a student who ( has ) made even a superficial study of phonetics in the course of the degree … |
| 8 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 9 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 10 | It was not easy to find a way of presenting prosaic information in a way which would attract parents . |
| 11 | If you arrive at your local station and it is just impossible to find a cab , then go to your local police station If it is close by and explain your problem . |
| 12 | We are not likely to find a cause as precisely as the tubercle bacillus can be shown to produce tuberculosis . |
| 13 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 14 | It is best just to find a racket that suits your game . |
| 15 | So when , late that night as I was just about to go to bed , I heard a discreet knock at the door , I was not amazed to find a waiter in a claw-hammer coat pulling a heavily laden food trolley into my room . |
| 16 | Now , the beauty of this sort of explanation , where you have everybody on your side , when you are dealing with somebody who is unpopular , when you are all desperately anxious to find a scapegoat , is that your argument is unlikely to be at all jealously scrutinised . |
| 17 | The state of English teaching in schools had obviously , by the late 1980s , become a cause of such radical complaint and discontent that it was not surprising to find a committee of inquiry set up to look into its proper aims and methods ( The Kingham Committee , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | The supply of wool from England to Flanders provided the main economic link between the two areas ; and it is not surprising to find a merchant financier with a base at each end of this trade . |
| 19 | In passing , it is interesting to note that the General Orders require explicitly that the grounds of objection be ‘ distinctly stated ’ ; notwithstanding this , it is most unusual to find a petition which does not say that the petitioner objects to the order ‘ for the reasons , amongst others , hereinafter stated ’ , and it is very common for the petition to end with a statement to the effect that there are divers other provisions of the Bill to which objection is taken . |
| 20 | The answer , of course , is to drill a hole , but it is not always possible to find a drill to suit the nails you are using . |
| 21 | So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it . |
| 22 | Elderly women were more likely to find a home with the children than were elderly men , doubtless because they were more useful as babysitters and in doing odd bits of sewing . |
| 23 | They were more likely to find an area if a grid of squares was provided , and more likely to find a perimeter if there was no grid but distances round the edges of the figure were labelled ; the use of the terms " perimeter " and " area " , especially the latter , reduced success . |
| 24 | The court is always reluctant to find a provision void for uncertainty , particularly where the provision is contained in a commercial agreement . |
| 25 | London Symphony Orchestra : Middlesbrough Town Hall IT was tremendously encouraging to find a capacity audience assembled in Middlesbrough Town Hall to listen to a programme by the London Symphony Orchestra which featured Prokofiev 's 6th Symphony . |
| 26 | It is also hard to find a yardstick with which to compare the preservation of more than 99 per cent of information in 20 billion successive copyings . |
| 27 | It is also important to find a hypnotherapist who is prepared to be frank and open with you and to answer all your questions . |
| 28 | But it is also uplifting to find a course charted for a better world that combines environmental protection , civil liberties and economic development as three sides of a single strategy , rather than bolted together in disjointed and contradictory declarations . |
| 29 | 12 When you are in the country look for a rotting log or branch-even in the town , it is often possible to find a piece of rotting timber . |
| 30 | But it is now possible to find a kennel or cattery , using the Recommended Kennel and Cattery Guide , which lists the country 's top boarding establishments , supported by comments from satisfied customers . |