Example sentences of "they find [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common explanation for long-duration unemployment among older workers is that they lack skill which enable them to find work in the expanding sectors of the economy , and , being older , do not have the expected future working lives to justify further training and retraining . |
| 2 | The restructuring would be supported by loans totalling between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000 from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) to provide those dismissed with compensation , training and advice to enable them to find jobs in the private sector . |
| 3 | They found conditions in the three-bedsit property ‘ quite unacceptable ’ and served notice on Hussein to undertake immediate repairs and maintenance . |
| 4 | There was a lot of noise , much broken glass and Bernard and Laura could only guess with horror at the disreputable behaviour until they found evidence on the lawn the following morning . |
| 5 | Board members talked about their growing awareness of the complexity of problems associated with their school and emphasised that they found stimulation in the challenge to their accepted values , through exploration of issues . |
| 6 | They found neurons in the retina of the eye which respond differently according to the size of dark objects moving in the field of view . |
| 7 | They found Dad in the middle of the road with a pig straddling him and manure all over his face . |
| 8 | They found Moran by the sound of malleting . |
| 9 | When they returned , they found Alice in the kitchen . |
| 10 | Inside they found oil on the concrete floor and , imprinted by that oil , a tracery of tyre marks . |
| 11 | According to the Life of Thomas Hardy ‘ they found lodgings at the house of an invalided captain of smacks and ketches ; and Hardy , suspending his house-hunting , settled down for the autumn and winter to finish his fifth novel , The Hand of Ethelberta ’ . |
| 12 | If they found access to the books was easier I am sure they would use them much more . |
| 13 | When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break , they found parts of the posts missing and broken . |
| 14 | They found levels of the toxin T2 , up to 86 parts per billion and another toxin known as diacetyl-nivalenol , at 30 parts per billion . |
| 15 | They found candles in the box , and the girls lit them . |
| 16 | They found refuge in the Ottoman empire from Morocco to Moldavia when the Catholic monarchs of Spain and Portugal drove them out . |
| 17 | All patients attend a regular follow up clinic , none have been lost to follow up but seven patients are contacted through local gastroenterologists either because they find travel to the centre difficult or because they now live abroad . |