Example sentences of "be [adv] to find " in BNC.

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1 I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days !
2 Now the camera begins to move down her body , over her breasts , which are lightly beaded ( and quite widely separated ) although it is hard to tell in the chiaroscuro created , as we are soon to find out , by the shutters of the apartment .
3 except one person in Land who we 're yet to find !
4 Steps are underway to find a coordinator for the service , and to appoint members to the ENS board .
5 ‘ I 'm here to find single women , ’ admitted a computer scientist from Bell Labs , peering at my label , New Scientist ?
6 ‘ I 'm here to find the Oldenburgs .
7 ‘ That 's what the authorities are there to find out .
8 We both know that if you were ever to find yourself in such an influential position , my sister 's inheritance would not long remain her own . ’
9 The only methods available to do this were either to find cheaper sources of raw materials , squeeze labour 's wages or increase the technological composition of the productive process .
10 And a very good way of doing that is obviously to find suitable outlets , and I would suggest that suitable outlets very often consist of local radio , which there is a thirst , on the whole , for good , appropriate items .
11 The first rule for a reader of articles is thus to find a sympathetic publication .
12 This is one of the great fascinations of being involved with living things , of discovering that the more one gets to know about natural things , the more there is still to find out .
13 There are something like 50,000 individual genes providing the genetic blueprint for each individual , and our task is really to find out where each one is on human chromosomes and to isolate them and to characterise them .
14 The first concern of field social workers is inevitably to find and maintain placements for children who can not live continuously with their own families .
15 If we revert to the original problem , the solution of Ax = x , we now see that there are just n eigenvalues s and that correspondingly there are just n vectors xs ; i.e. we have n equations unc We can combine them all into the single equation unc or more briefly AX = X where X is ow the square matrix made up of the n column vectors xs , and unc is the diagonal matrix of the eigenvalues ; and our problem is now to find the matrices X and unc for the given A.
16 The purpose of the present research is simply to find out whether it is practical to begin a project now or soon , or whether such a project should wait until there are more results from those working on the theory .
17 The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions .
18 As a result , the panel actually gets in the way of discovering the very information it is there to find out .
19 The difficulty is then to find under what circumstances the appropriate boundary conditions are satisfied .
20 Katie 's college did , though she 's yet to find out whether potential employers will be similarly impressed .
21 At Ferrari , the only effort to put things right is either to find the scapegoat or to cover up the mistake and deny it ever happened .
22 The favoured solution is therefore to find ways of slowing cars to speeds at which the short sight-lines are not a danger to children .
23 In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander .
24 As the days passed , hope faded of finding John Brown alive and after 14 days it was agreed that there was no urgency as the search was only to find his body for Christian burial .
25 But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse .
26 As I was soon to find , he was a man you could like even when you were joined in battle with him .
27 I was soon to find out .
28 He was soon to find out .
29 Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out .
30 Although the promise of a ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ secured a victory for Lloyd George and his coalition government in 1918 , it was soon to find its promises increasingly hard to fulfil as the post-war boom petered out and Britain moved into the years of the Slump .
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