Example sentences of "find [noun] of the " in BNC.

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1 For pupils of below average ability it is not so unusual to find discussions of the whole curriculum taking place , perhaps because of their perceived ‘ low ’ status or because there are no public examination constraints .
2 In a landscape renowned for its water sinks and disappearing streams , it 's unusual to find lakes of the size of Semer Water and Malham Tarn .
3 Almost the most enjoyable thing of all is Lewis 's ability to find traces of the ‘ old world ’ — beliefs which go back to Isadore of Seville or Macrobius or even as far as Plato — surviving in the pages of Fielding , Johnson or Wordsworth .
4 Russell said that the police once used either steam-distillation or vacuum extraction to find traces of the common accelerants such as petrol , paraffin , paint thinners and white spirit , that spread fires .
5 Given his definition of class , Poulantzas has got to find traces of the working class in the political and ideological spheres .
6 Mala did point out that she found elements of the message suspicious .
7 The figure is also lower than that derived by Hughes 100 for her single chemistry thesis , where she found elements of the thesis research in five subsequent papers .
8 Equally , the figure is lower than figure derived by Hughes for her single chemistry thesis , where she found elements of the thesis research in five subsequent papers .
9 A high-school student found pieces of the mural in a container for construction debris , contacted the federal government and was instructed to take the work to a specialised restorer , Hiram Hoelzer .
10 Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) found evidence of the extinction effect in only two of their six experiments and were able to offer no very convincing account of why these two studies ( which used a somewhat different test procedure from that used in the others ) should have generated the result they did .
11 The Far East is also an important area but it has been difficult to find firms of the requisite standard who are independent .
12 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 .
13 On a number of occasions I found members of the royal household resting .
14 Most of the party leaders were in any case inherited from Balfour and it would take time to find men of the new stamp , even if this were possible .
15 It is not difficult to find examples of the kinds of problems arising in practice :
16 Reagan found understanding of the other side every bit as hard .
17 You are quite likely to find specimens of the majority of forms of I , aquifolium and I. x altaclarensis in the garden centres and tree-and-shrub nurseries within striking distance of where you live .
18 ‘ Well , now that you ask , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ the picture I get is of a group of young people with more money than sense , buying temporary pleasures because they have n't got a clue where to find enjoyment of the more permanent sort . ’
19 I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry .
20 Walk through into the courtyard to find remains of the late 16C designs of the Labours of Hercules .
21 When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break , they found parts of the posts missing and broken .
22 Most woodland is now found west of the River Arun , the downs further east being notably lacking in tree cover except for a few extensive forestry plantations , which now form a high proportion of all downland woodland .
23 Numerous finds of statuettes include examples of Hercules , Ceres and Minerva , while a fragmentary inscription apparently dedicated to Mars was found west of the defences .
24 But do n't come running to me when you find replicas of the Taj Mahal in here in the future . ’
25 I notice that another strongly anti-European Labour Back-Bench Member is giving the lie yet again to the newly found Europeanism of the Labour Front Bench .
26 Outside the Church are to be found signs of the Kingdom in the form of his image , recognisable , though sadly disfigured , in the lives of all men .
27 It considered the Teesside report as ‘ the culmination of this process and finds aspects of the report distasteful and unacceptable ’ .
28 1Off — the verses which are usually taken as belonging to the Priestly strand of the Bible — that we first find mention of the covenantal aspects of circumcision :
29 Russian weapons were rarely found south of the border and the guerrillas used mainly Japanese and American weapons .
30 Of the 20 000 or so living species of fish , only about 120 are found south of the Antarctic Convergence , and most of those are endemic ( Everson , 1984 ) .
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