Example sentences of "found the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While her handwriting was clear and she read fluently , Diana found the scholarly side rather confusing . |
| 2 | But at the end of 1990 the group was reorganised and Mr Wise was less happy with the outcome : ‘ I found the general direction in which the group was going did n't really satisfy me in terms of long-term interests or challenge , so I decided to bite the bullet . ’ |
| 3 | A leading article in The Times found the general approach tentative , but did not offer any criticism on those grounds . |
| 4 | I ran back and forth across the street until I found the dirty door . |
| 5 | South African students found the fast-approaching World Cup a strong enough incentive to sort out their differences and achieve unity in a short span of time . |
| 6 | He found the rural areas to have a very low incidence of head lice , but for urban children it was indeed quite high , and varied significantly by age and sex . |
| 7 | The survey of seven airlines found the average age of pilots when they died was 61 . |
| 8 | He announced the results of a survey of 400 vets working in 600 slaughterhouses which found the average hourly rate was £25.70 . |
| 9 | They found the average proportionate mispricing was very significantly larger in the stock exchange account which included the contract 's delivery date , than otherwise . |
| 10 | Robin found the average milk-yield for the area was about 33kg per cow daily . |
| 11 | The survey monitored 1,100 Welsh homes and found the average level to be 20 becquerels per cubic metre , the same as the UK as a whole . |
| 12 | It 's certainly a narrow aréte , but I found the tiny loose stones of Am Bodach 's unstable path far more disquieting than this ridge , with its well-worn , solid path snaking comfortingly across to the last top between us and our goal of Sgurr a' Mhaim . |
| 13 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 14 | In second place Chris Donaghey ( 8 ) and probably one of Prehen 's steadiest golfers also found the homeward nine to his liking with 17.5pts out and 22pts back , thanks to a birdie at the 18th he returned a fine 39pts . |
| 15 | When Richard Baxter returned to Kidderminster in 1647 he found the Civil War had brought about some changes which were helpful to his ministry . |
| 16 | Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . |
| 17 | She found the burning rod and tasted its length , the swarthy towerhead , like a smooth-skinned fruit swollen with juice . |
| 18 | Even they , though , found the battering-ram principle too convenient yet unproductive . |
| 19 | Officers and firemen found the blazing vehicle finally at a halt , with the crew desperately trying to rescue equipment . |
| 20 | They flew home and found the blazing huts just about to fall down . |
| 21 | She tried to think more rationally , to dismiss the darker possibilities from her mind , but after what had happened here in the past week or so she found the worrying thoughts came more easily . |
| 22 | Above Angela found the 17th-century four-poster bed while on a foray in the Welsh borders 18 years ago , and came upon the crewel-work hangings only a few weeks later in Hastings . |
| 23 | I found the total silence at a depth of six metres interrupted only by the sound of my breathing quite eerie . |
| 24 | The Gallup survey , carried out for Realeat , part of the Haldane Foods Group , found the total number of people who avoided red meat , including vegetarians , vegans and those who still ate chicken or fish , totalled six million or 11pc of the population . |
| 25 | The peers on the whole accepted these assumptions , though many found the explicit recognition of the situation hard to bear . " |
| 26 | In The Person and Place of Jesus Christ ( 1909 ) , a book often regarded as his best , he found the two-nature doctrine of Christ deficient , inclining to the kenotic theory , which he modified by thinking of a ‘ pleroma ’ following the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus . |
| 27 | Carl Barrett had a field day with his wind-assisted corners ; one found the net direct and two others produced goals for Paul Balfour and Seymour . |
| 28 | In 1968 Fields and Stanbury updated Break 's UK study and found the net disincentive effect to have grown to 8% of the population . |
| 29 | He found the young man witty , intelligent and obviously devoted to Alice . |
| 30 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |