Example sentences of "finding out the " in BNC.

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1 When I started in the shop I was into digging out a bit more detail about it , finding out the kind of Arthur English-style kipper ties my granddad used to wear and the cars that were around then .
2 Finding out the answers to these questions is best done by going out and talking to parents and others .
3 From the nucleotide sequence the amino acid sequence of the protein it codes for can be determined and this provides an excellent starting point for finding out the role of the protein in development .
4 ‘ You do have an extraordinary rapport with this awful creature , ’ Biddy said , finding out the fact quite soon .
5 However , sending a letter to a large sample of people can be quite a costly business , not only in stationery and postage , but also in finding out the recipients ' correct names and addresses , if one is to avoid the very impersonal and rather off-putting form of address , ‘ The Occupant ’ .
6 We 'll be finding out the answers to these and other topics in an exclusive series of in depth interviews with some of our top local bands .
7 Noise If the kitchen doubles as a family living space , is near the living room or bedrooms , or if you plan to run the machine on Economy 7 during the night , it is worth finding out the decibel rating of the machine — expressed as dB ( A ) — before buying .
8 Finding out the hard way .
9 The court heard that irate shoppers complained to trading standards officers after finding out the reductions were bogus .
10 Finding Out the Facts of Life
11 She came back to collect her when she was three but after finding out the toddler was being beaten and burnt , social workers intervened and Natasha was taken back to the safety of the orphanage .
12 Processing the data and analysing the results Having collected all the completed questionnaires or interview schedules , it is time to process the data , putting answers into categories , adding up totals , and generally finding out the pattern of the responses and expressing them in statistical terms .
13 A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance .
14 Finding out the expectations of clients is important in assessing how readily they will take to an educational self-help approach .
15 Finding out the truth about Jasper and Bienvida might finally militate against Cecilia Darne 's view that a child should always be able to find a home with its parents .
16 Sometimes customers spend a lot of time finding out the value of an item before applying .
17 too many people , over population for our supply of toxic fumes , oil , gas and coal , they might run out so creativity is the erm inventing finding out the
18 Or should you spend a bit more time really finding out the extent of the pollution ? ’
19 For what finding out the truth means is getting true beliefs for ourselves ; and what telling it means is giving our own true beliefs to other people — often of course ( though as we shall see , by no means always ) by making true statements .
20 In another study in Scotland , Beaumont attempted to calculate the success of the Employment Training Scheme by finding out the proportion of migrants who remained employed in the destination areas for at least twelve months .
21 However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary .
22 W we the mechanism of finding out the jobs
23 Third , the particular reputational approach used by Hunter presupposed that which remained to be proven — that there is a group of forty people in whose hands power in Atlanta is concentrated — by devoting all his efforts to finding out the names of people who appear to belong to this elite .
24 He did this quite openly , because if anybody asked where he was going , he would say he was finding out the route to the Fire Court for Floy and Snodgrass 's journey .
25 There are considerable sums of money available from the Commission for research and development , but one of the problems is finding out the relevant information at the right time .
26 Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother .
27 Once again it boils down to confidence , and the small test I recommend on page 14 for finding out the colours that make you feel secure , can apply just as well to style .
28 Hysteria had nothing to do with reality , it was something you could n't help , could n't hold back any more than you could stop flood water finding out the weak places in a dam .
29 We allocated various jobs and set about finding out the answers ; monthly progress meetings were arranged .
30 Finding out the " facts " characteristic of a people who constitute the population of some society , usually a nation , is seen as the essence of social scientific investigation .
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