Example sentences of "one find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And every proof or dis-proof can be readily evaded , if one questions the truth of its premisses , or the validity of its type of inference , or if one finds new senses in which its terms may be used .
2 This explains why one finds contrary demands being made by groups in different places .
3 The important thing to emphasize is that women are given the opportunity to participate in all areas of work and that there exists a definite attempt to organize and train women for tasks outside the domestic sphere , One finds many women who are in charge of supplies , or working in the munition workshops , in tailoring , shoe-making , pottery or local manufactures , such as hammocks and so on .
4 In one of the informal groups that preceded the foundation of the Royal Society , one finds that affirmation of independence that gives weight to the separation thesis .
5 If one considers the commitments of various members of Labour 's Front Bench whose portfolios touch directly or indirectly on energy , one finds total conflict , one with the other .
6 When one finds defenceless prey , others will soon come .
7 Starting from the theorem , one finds various propositions , X , Y , and Z , such that , if they are true , then the theorem is true .
8 Around the world generally one finds similar examples , albeit on less than an American scale , and there are probably many more not yet known in the world 's literature .
9 It was presumably where the community was predominantly free that one finds continual buying and selling of land between peasant families and the consequent development of a group of more prosperous men in the community .
10 It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones .
11 On checking BRTT for 1985 , for example , one finds Scottish geology theses covering all years from 1978 to 1985 .
12 One finds direct contradictions such as Lewis 's ( 1931 ) observation that an 8 km/h ( 5 mile/h ) current off Hurst Castle Spit was ineffective in moving the lightest shell debris except when combined with wave action and Russell and Macmillan 's ( 1952 ) belief that shingle has been scoured to a depth of nearly 60 m ( 200 ft ) by this same current .
13 It has further been argued that in Britain one finds less variety of opinion among judges than in the United States .
14 The result of the calculation that er I think appropriate is that one finds twenty hours a week , seven pounds an hour , thirty seven weeks a year comes out I hope at five thousand , one hundred and eighty pounds , to that should be added four hundred and forty five pounds national insurance contributions and I have left the advertising fees at the same amount two hundred pounds .
15 In the literature on macroeconomic policy and labour markets , one finds considerable debate over degree of employment mobility and wage flexibility at the enterprise level .
16 Would one find controlled authorities rationally closing the hospitals which they had been told were least fit to serve for the future — for instance on the grounds of extreme remoteness to districts served or lack of viability in terms of the relative decline of the resident population — and thus cases of rule book judgements ?
17 Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France .
18 THE recovery of no fewer than eleven kinds of filamentous microfossil from 3,465-million-year-old rocks in Western Australia ( J. W. Schopf Science 260 , 640–646 ; 1993 ) , shows that life was not only in existence a few hundred million years after the planet was formed , but was thriving : rarely does one find single fossils of this antiquity , let alone entire communities .
19 It must be observed that only with difficulty and in a highly tentative manner can one find common ground between the theories discussed here ; in this conversation the participants are talking past one another .
20 A question at once comes to mind : how does one find qualified personnel to operate so many nuclear power stations ?
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