Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] find a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 2 | A collection of early aviation postcards failed to find a buyer , but as compensation early space flight memorabilia such as the Union Flag carried by Al Warden and taken with him on Apollo 15 around the moon sold for an impressive £1,600 . |
| 3 | Third market companies had to find a member firm to sponsor them who would ensure not only the suitability of the company for trading , but also that the company 's decisions were communicated to the shareholders , and that there was an effective and orderly market in the shares . |
| 4 | He could see red uniforms further up the river bank , evidence that the Lancers had found a place to cross . |
| 5 | Brückner 's investigators had found a jeweller who 'd refused to buy a cross that fitted the description of the Holy Relic . |
| 6 | A group of evangelical youth organisations wanted to find a way to send 18–23 year olds they had been involved in discipling to put their faith to work . |
| 7 | OIL PRICES drifted down yesterday as leading oil producers struggled to find a compromise on production levels after three days of talks in Vienna . |
| 8 | But , as at Pittodrie a fortnight ago , the Kilmarnock defence held firm , and even on the rare occasions when Rangers did find a route to goal , veteran goalkeeper Bobby Geddes was on hand to snuff out any danger . |
| 9 | But , as at Pittodrie a fortnight ago , the Kilmarnock defence held firm , and even on the rare occasions when Rangers did find a route |
| 10 | It has become the means for distinguishing between leases and licences , the latter being the means by which lawyers sought to find a way around statutory controls regarding the levels of rent and security for the tenant . |
| 11 | This was the situation as the Commonwealth leaders sought to find a formula . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) He explicitly introduced the fact that the committing justices had found a case to answer whereby the jury may have been influenced adversely to the appellant . |
| 13 | Two years ago one of the lorry men had found a baby on the council dump , dead and rolled up in newspaper . |
| 14 | The teenagers claimed that the police had found a footprint on the embankment near where James 's body was found , that police had taken trainers from the boy they said did it . |
| 15 | The superb four-storey Georgian town house premises failed to find a buyer despite its low estimate ( £250,000–£350,000 ) just sufficient to buy a reasonable flat in London . |
| 16 | In particular , the realistic novel had played an important part in shaping Progressive America and the themes of those novels were taken up in Hollywood as the studios struggled to find a formula for fiction films that would be acceptable to the highly politicized cities of the East and Midwest . |