Example sentences of "[conj] find [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself !
2 For example , if any property has been lost or found in the rooms then by referring to the room history card it is possible to discover who was the occupant of the room at a certain date .
3 A good deal of responsibility rests therefore on the local authority and the councillors to deal properly and fairly with any complaint , or finding by the commissioner .
4 Only one configuration , however , matched that found at the murder scene .
5 Throughout the work , Simmel is concerned with the relationship between the degree of abstraction here found in human relations , and that found in the emergence of modern scientific enterprise and modes of thought .
6 The Semtex can be compared with fragments from those incidents and that found in the bomb factory at Clapham , south London , last December .
7 Interestingly , authors appeared in this group with a frequency more than twice that found in the population at large .
8 Although found on the canals coots are more common on reservoirs and ponds .
9 Although found in the buying section of this Practice Guide these listings have not been prepared solely from a buyer 's perspective .
10 When gas comes from volcanic regions the ratio of 3 He to 4 He is eight to fifteen times greater than found in the atmosphere and crustal rock . ’
11 After I had seen her , I visited the church and found on the altar a candle bearing the arms of the Cathedral on its base .
12 I went out and found in the court two corpses interlocked ; they were the bodies of the two young men who had before been with me in the room ...
13 A second possibility was an origin in the Middle Saxon period in the first half of the eighth century AD : evidence for this occupation comes from both documentary sources and finds from the site .
14 If Belinda had been a more devious soul , she might have thought to suggest that Deana 's harping on the subject of Dr Russell spoke rather strongly of a crush on her side as well , but Belinda was n't devious , so she simply blushed even more and found on the desk in front of her a diabetic patient 's chart that suddenly needed her urgent attention .
15 The property in the car was later put into a van and found by the police who discovered that it had been stolen in the burglary .
16 and found inside the photo and the note .
17 Here we analyse archival Exosat observations of the bright Seyfert galaxy NGC5548 , and find in the power spectrum a broad peak corresponding to quasi-periodic oscillations ( QPOs ) with period of .
18 A typical camera-control button arrangement as found on the side-panel of most camcorders .
19 Rudolf 's reign saw a growing interest in decorative arts of great refinement and opulence , as found in the work in gold and jewels of the Jamnitzers or the designs of the Vredeman de Vries family , the pietra dura panels of the Castrucci or the glass and cameos of the Miseroni family ( see p. 121 ) .
20 What had been devised was a swept wing with reflex ( washout ) at the tips as found in the majority of free-flying tailless aeroplanes .
21 Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police .
22 In an earlier paper ( 1977 ) Robarchek argues that Schachter 's frustration — aggression theory can be found to hold among the Semai when we examine one of their rules , punan , whereby any kind of ‘ frustration ’ ( I call it ‘ unfulfilled desire ’ as found in the rule punen among the Chewong ) must never be allowed to persist .
23 They do not have the resistance to UV effect as found in the stock red , yellow , green , blue or yes , of course , black .
24 I think it convenient in this judgment first to set out the salient facts of the case , as found by the judge , and then to consider the authorities from which must be extracted the principles of law and equity to be applied to the facts .
25 In my view on the facts as found by the judge this issue does not arise since she was not able to make a genuine decision .
26 In my judgment , on the facts as found by the judge , he was entitled to reach the conclusion that consideration existed and in those circumstances I would not disturb that finding .
27 The background facts , as found by the deputy judge , are these .
28 There appears to be little direct authority on the point , but in Lewis v. Cox Webster J. said that even taking into account the fact as found by the magistrates that the defendant was intoxicated and that his intoxication affected his actions , they must still inevitably have inferred that the defendant intended to obstruct .
29 By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’
30 If the wife were to return to her husband , would the contract , as found by the court , still be binding upon the parties ?
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