Example sentences of "[vb base] find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us assume that you want to find a particular book and that you know the title and author . |
| 2 | It sometimes happens that you want to find a particular book but you have forgotten , or never knew , the name of the author . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ultimately , most physicists hope to find a unified theory that will explain all four forces as different aspects of a single force . |
| 6 | I hope to find a new challenge , not just something to add to a list but a challenge with a greater cause behind it . |
| 7 | The real puzzle is how shrews — which have such a rapid metabolism — manage to find a constant supply of worms and insects when the ground is frosted hard . |
| 8 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 9 | To start , we consider the first ( highest priority ) objective and try to find a feasible solution ( x 1 , … , x n ) satisfying and , if our search is successful , we impose this inequality as an extra constraint and then turn to the second objective . |
| 10 | Try to find a vivid illustration of your theme to start off your talk . |
| 11 | Stop whatever you are doing and try to find a quiet place to sit down . |
| 12 | If so , try to find a different position to suit you both . |
| 13 | For the rest of the day he-would go into Inverness , take his spare clothes into a launderette and then perhaps try to find a public baths with hot showers . |
| 14 | Or call to find a local stockist . |
| 15 | So you 've found a better job ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ At least we 've found a suitable base on the French coast and the pilot looks promising . ’ |
| 17 | However , most cases of acne do improve with time , so once you 've found a suitable preparation , stay with it until nature finally cures the problem . |
| 18 | I hope , ’ she said politely , ‘ you 've found a nice hotel ? ’ |
| 19 | I 've found a super husband for Harriet . |
| 20 | We 've found a tiny offshoot of imagination |
| 21 | ‘ And we think we 've found a Roman villa . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 23 | You 've found a certain Paul ? |
| 24 | Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've found a new lead guitar . |
| 26 | ( 22 ) Margaret is a rather meteorological expert they bought some extremely clerical collars This effect is seen very clearly in the cases where the same word can be used in each of the different ways ; thus the adjective musical can perfectly well be modified for intensity when it is used ascriptively : ( 23 ) even as a child Naomi had a very musical voice but when it is associative , the result is again unacceptable : ( 24 ) we 've found a legal text and a very musical treatise 2.6 It is not necessary to be a linguist to feel that there is a difference in the two ways of using attributives . |
| 27 | ‘ Sir , can you come across to the Gun Shop ? 1 think we 've found a serious defect which could affect the Warrior fleet . ’ |
| 28 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 29 | ‘ See , we 've found a few seeps of underground water that 's close enough to the surface for things to grow . |
| 30 | ‘ At last , they 've found a natural successor to Geoff Boycott ’ |