Example sentences of "find a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found a small tendency for an earlier deterioration in cognitive function , with loss of speed and accuracy of the four choice reaction during the controlled hypoglycaemia induced by porcine insulin but this did not achieve significance . |
| 2 | We found a good site for the kit |
| 3 | Well , I found a little room for you — attic , I 'm afraid , hope you do n't mind- and I 've put everything up there . |
| 4 | In her Journals , unpublished in her lifetime , she found a unique outlet for her genius without competing with the writers who surrounded her . |
| 5 | An earlier chairman , Lord Swann , found a shrewd metaphor for the ideal relationship between the chairman of the governors and the director-general . |
| 6 | French publishers found a lively market for the polyphonic chanson and its instrumental arrangements ; composers based Masses on it , even in its most scabrous forms ; and even before the foundation in 1570 of the Académie de Poésie et de Musique on the initiative of Jean-Antoine de Baif , French composers had developed an extreme form of Humanist song in musique mesurée a l'antique . |
| 7 | The problem is to find a convincing argument for local ethical scepticism which has no expansionist tendencies . |
| 8 | You do not have to go far to find a living parallel for these organisms . |
| 9 | Welcome back : A stable owner has made an urgent appeal … to find a foster mum for a three-day-old foal . |
| 10 | A recent attempt to find a dynamical explanation for the observed motions of atomic and molecular gas in the central regions has provided independent evidence of a stellar bar forcing noncircular motions in the central regions . |
| 11 | Henry and I travelled to Edinburgh together , and then I went further north , to find a good place for my laboratory . |
| 12 | They were anxious also to find a mooring place for their four-oared ceremonial barge , with a cabin in the stern . |
| 13 | This historic search of 1959 was an assignment to find a Chief Executive for ITT , the powerful but then rather dormant telephone equipment corporation , which had been run by a dynasty of ex-service leaders . |
| 14 | Yet advertising their track record in detail worked for Spencer Stuart , especially in one particularly significant shoot-out in which they beat four other firms competing to win the assignment to find a chief executive for the American Council of Life Insurance . |
| 15 | Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus . |
| 16 | Modigliani took great trouble to find a suitable nurse for the baby and after some time found a compatriot , a woman from Calabria . |
| 17 | Perhaps a locally organized competition to find a suitable challenger for the ‘ National Idiot of the Year ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We 'll have to find a suitable date for instance |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Efforts to find a suitable site for the Vintage & Rotary Wing Collection , with workshops in Stoke-on-Trent , have been going on for quite a while , but the reaction has always been negative — we even had the comment that ‘ We do n't want an aircraft scrapyard here ! ’ |
| 22 | The high water-table in the area means it would be difficult to find a suitable site for a burial ground because of the risk of water contamination . |
| 23 | The high water-table in the area means it would be difficult to find a suitable site for a burial ground because of the risk of water contamination . |
| 24 | Regrettably the customer 's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant . |
| 25 | But brave dad Brendan has vowed not to give up hope and a Europe-wide search is still on to find a suitable donor for Caolan . |
| 26 | It was a struggle to find a suitable term for these logical objects — the term ‘ logical object ’ is not in itself one to set the blood tingling . |
| 27 | If , for example , the local authority is unable to find a suitable placement for the child because of a shortage of foster parents the court may decide that a care order is not to the child 's benefit despite the shortcomings of his own parents . |
| 28 | They made a dazzling bouquet , not without charm , but the bunch which was presented each May Day by Mrs Curdle in person to the doctor was of such gargantuan proportions that Mrs Bailey was hard put to it to find a suitable place for it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is not always possible to find a suitable theta-solvent for a polymer and methods have been developed which allow unperturbed dimensions to be estimated in non-ideal ( good ) solvents . |