Example sentences of "[verb] to find a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the time a local shatran was commissioned to find a suitable wife for him , he was settled and orientated to the British way of life . |
| 4 | I have had to find a provisional title for the venture to use in my various requisitions for staff , accommodation , etc . |
| 5 | The row that followed the announcement of a programme of drilling to find a suitable site for burying high-level waste — and resulted in the programme being called off two years ago — has led NIREX to abandon any hope of drilling to find the best geological formation for the intermediate waste . |
| 6 | Since the war had interrupted his career as a merchant , Peto needed to find an alternative outlet for his many talents and interests , and when childhood friend Ervin Marton , a photographer and designer domiciled in France , introduced him to photography , he quickly realised that he had found his true artistic vocation . |
| 7 | Failing to find an appropriate site for a shot , the location manager on the new Willy Russell venture , Dancing Through The Dark , decided to mock it up by erecting a spanking new bus shelter in Wavertree , one of Liverpool 's livelier areas . |
| 8 | The Warsaw pact would have to find a new home for its southern command , a small price . |
| 9 | We 'll have to find a suitable date for instance |
| 10 | Shoppers will have to find an extra £1 for every £7 currently spent and £6 will be added to the average weekly bill of £45 . |
| 11 | Since the mid-1970s , academics at London 's University College have tried to find a commercial sponsor for their Cellular Logic Array Processor ( CLIP ) . |
| 12 | The operative straw seems to have been his exclusion from the inner circle during the twenty-four hours of the joint Anglo-French ultimatum , though back in August Clark had recorded quite dispassionately that ‘ a good deal of effort is going into trying to find a proper pretext for taking military action . |
| 13 | Since she was rejected last year , the council has been trying to find an alternative service for the island . |
| 14 | He dedicated his life trying to find an appropriate architecture for his country which was realistic and integral to that society . |
| 15 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 16 | He attempted to find an alternative grounding for the project in a theory of mind because without it he argued that the ‘ postulational scepticism ’ of Grunwald and others was an effective criticism . |
| 17 | Similarly , English has never chosen to find an equivalent term for avant-garde . |
| 18 | A registered charity , all dogs and prospective owners are vetted and this accounts for the high success rate but it must be kept in mind that people who need to find a new home for their dog usually have a problem , or a problem dog . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |