Example sentences of "to find [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was then able not only to find the green with a nine-iron but be close enough for a tap-in putt for his three . |
| 2 | The Norwich civil servant thought the trip would be a complete waste of time after arriving to find the lake completely frozen over but the pike fed furiously for three hours . |
| 3 | Refusing to let herself think beyond the tasks she was performing , Leonora listened to the radio as she worked , and when the meal was well advanced she went quietly upstairs to find the bathroom empty , and Penry , fully dressed in fresh clothes , fast asleep on his bed . |
| 4 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 5 | Mr Malik seemed to find the lack of political correctness in this remark reassuring . |
| 6 | Now a reward has been offered to find the equipment , and the people using it . |
| 7 | She banged her empty glass down on the desk , as though she had expected to find the surface several centimetres lower than it actually was . |
| 8 | As a final warning , the manager will probably expect you to find the deposit of 10% at least , and more likely 25% or 30% of the overall cost . |
| 9 | She would try to find the Robe of Human Hands , which sounded rather horrid , but which would surely release Nuadu and the others . |
| 10 | The Citizens Advice Bureau gave me help with getting his benefits right but most people do n't even know where to find the CAB . |
| 11 | Once inside the building , it took Myeloski nearly twenty minutes to find the officer in charge and determine that no word had been received by the Tobolsk police regarding their impending arrival . |
| 12 | The whole of tonight 's entertainment looked to me unreal , something like a banqueting scene of an opera , and I should not have been surprised to find the capon under my knife to consist of cardboard and my ‘ goblet of sparkling wine ’ full of emptiness with a rim of cotton wool to represent the foam of the champagne that was not there . |
| 13 | This angle can then be used to find the size of an object whose distance is known or to work out the size of the image through a given focal length . |
| 14 | Indeed , Alain Sroufe at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota , urges that we stop trying to find the response in the child 's physiology , and learn instead to think of it as an ‘ organisational construct ’ , an economic way in which the experimenter can characterise the pattern of behavioural linkages between the child and its environment . |
| 15 | To find the response , the mirror allocation can be located at point 3 by striking a line from 2 through 1 and extending it for a distance equal to 21 ; i.e. 31 = 12 . |
| 16 | Then add the previous stock balance to find the total in stock . |
| 17 | The simplest method of calculating the price index for 1985 is to find the total of the unit prices charged in 1984 ( by adding up the three prices for that year ) and the total of the unit prices charged in 1985 and then to express the latter as a percentage of the former . |
| 18 | Not only do these youngsters have to find the strength to battle against crippling disease , they have to find the motivation and the will to win . |
| 19 | First I went to find the boy 's father and told him , ‘ There 's nothing you can do by staying here . |
| 20 | Note : To find the boy 's weight , w , he had to be by himself on one side of the see-saw or equation . |
| 21 | But to answer you — I have the T'ang 's own personal authority to find the boy . |
| 22 | She heard her grandmother informing her that out there , in that Mongolian vastness , was ‘ The Dragon 's Tomb ’ where her own great-grandfather had gone to find the dinosaur eggs . |
| 23 | We cleared through the overgrowth of new products to find the secret of a truly rosy complexion ! |
| 24 | Just check the code for your selected departure point against the panel below to find the departure and return Time Band applicable . |
| 25 | Whatever method is employed to make height at the overlap , some 40ft ( 12m ) up the final corner , there is still a long reach to be made to find the hold in the crack above . |
| 26 | The lizard loses fat stoned in the tail , and yet has to find the wherewithal to repair its wounded body and regenerate its tail . |
| 27 | It is hard for them to find the relevance to their lives of the words that are being used . |
| 28 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 29 | Looking back at regular intervals to see if the stranger was following , eventually they reached the access to the street but the guide was astonished to find the man had vanished into thin air . |
| 30 | I decided I must try to find the man who had been watching us . |