Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 2 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 3 | A defence of acting in her best medical interests fails : he could have tried to find a female gynaecologist , and , indeed , his female house officer had already examined the patient ; a pelvic mass could have been shown by ultrasonography ; if it was necessary to exclude pelvic disease a laparoscopy could have been performed before the appendicectomy ; it is doubtful whether the examination under anaesthesia served any purpose as tenderness could not be elicited ; and , finally , he could have asked the patient first whether an examination under anaesthesia was an acceptable compromise . |
| 4 | Bett Brothers , the property , housing and leisure group , has ceased operations at Bett Trucks having failed to find a main distributor for Leyland Daf , its franchiser . |
| 5 | We met er , a beautiful old English sheep dog , seven months old and they 've got to find a new home for it , because they 're off to America . |
| 6 | Well we 've got to find a new supplier have n't we ? |
| 7 | We 've got to find a better way . |
| 8 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 9 | I had hoped to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time available . |
| 10 | He went back to his hotel for lunch and was surprised now that the conference had ended to find a good crowd in the dining-room , which was open to non-residents . |
| 11 | Martinho 's resignation was seen as representing the development of a long-term crisis within a party which had failed to find a suitable replacement for its original leader and whose popular support had been reduced to below 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 12 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 13 | I have had to find a provisional title for the venture to use in my various requisitions for staff , accommodation , etc . |
| 14 | Yes and Forest have got to find a better route to goal than that and we 'll find out whether they can in a few moments . |
| 15 | Since the mid-1970s , academics at London 's University College have tried to find a commercial sponsor for their Cellular Logic Array Processor ( CLIP ) . |