Example sentences of "is [adj] find [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given any example of a classic scientific theory , whether at the time of its first proposal or at a later date , it is possible to find observational claims that were generally accepted at the time and were considered to be inconsistent with the theory . |
| 2 | They need to know that it is possible to find alternative accommodation for the individual or themselves . |
| 3 | Whereas , as we shall note , written language is , in general , used for primarily transactional purposes , it is possible to find written genres whose purpose is not primarily to inform but to maintain social relationships-'thank you' letters , love letters , games of consequences , etc . |
| 4 | It is easy to find historical problems in the Bible . |
| 5 | Mr Cheung wrote : ‘ It is easy to find conclusive evidence showing that both nectar and pollination services are transacted in the marketplace : in some cities one need look no further than the yellow pages of the local telephone directory . ’ |
| 6 | The Minister will not spell out what the Secretary of State is likely to find satisfactory . |
| 7 | Yet despite its geographical spread , it is hard to find common features among the different risings which would justify the idea that the revolt was in any real sense a common movement . |
| 8 | It is natural to find sleeping difficult if you have just suffered a bereavement or you are experiencing difficulties in a close relationship . |
| 9 | It is fascinating to find Aguilar writing in this way 20 years after publishing the most frequently referenced text on environmental scanning ! |
| 10 | However , the level of sophistication required both in allocating resources and in organisational competence within practices means it is unlikely to find widespread acceptance . |
| 11 | The disk in this family is delicate and prone to damage and it is common to find deep sea specimens without their disks . |
| 12 | This chapter has suggested that it is common to find exaggerated accounts of Japan 's position as the model of an unusually successful and harmonious capitalist society , in particular that compliance may be involuntary and that social inequalities are not as insignificant as they may appear . |
| 13 | In the latter it is common to find small classes sharing a classroom , sometimes with a single teacher , sometimes with more than one but nearly always seated as a separate group with their own ‘ territory ’ and blackboard , for there exists a strange orthodoxy that a teacher with modest education and training ‘ can not be taught to handle more than one class at the same time ’ . |
| 14 | Where one particular elite ( or elite coalition ) has a stranglehold on political power , it is common to find increased governmental inertia , conservative leadership , networks of nepotism and patronage , and generally rising levels of corruption , as some observers suggested was true ofthe French Fifth Republic between 1958 and 1981 , and may still be true of contemporary Italy . |
| 15 | Certainly , during this period it is common to find English teachers expressing a sense of the futility , or at least extreme difficulty , of attempting to influence in the direction of submission to great works of literature , students socialized into a culture of " affluence " . |
| 16 | Hilary Murphy explains that it is difficult to find new questions to reach the same answers . |
| 17 | Hilary Murphy explains that it is difficult to find new questions to reach the same answers . |
| 18 | Since it is difficult to find independent evidence with which to test the interpretations of their own past offered by Greek historians , we can not know whether they were ‘ really ’ being exceptionally ‘ rational ’ and ‘ scientific ’ . |
| 19 | In form alone there are similarities between certain glass bowls and plain ceramic bowls , but it is difficult to find ceramic equivalents of distinctive glass forms , suggesting that any social and economic symbolism conveyed by the shape and function of such vessels was conveyed equally by the material used , and that there were rigid boundaries between them ; there was not , for instance , a poor man 's version of the glass cone beaker . |
| 20 | Whatever the ‘ social costs ’ of political and economic development in Japan up to the 1940s , it is difficult to find widespread sustained resistance to , or non-cooperation with , the social value system . |
| 21 | This method is useful when it is difficult to find positive actions by your child to praise . |
| 22 | It is a field that is full of mythology , but also of research ; but the research tends to be compartmentalized between individual media , so that it is difficult to find meaningful material covering a combination of media in any very useful way . |
| 23 | It is difficult to find scientific evidence of the value of using the Rogerian client oriented counselling method , which is widely advocated , and on this we share the authors ' doubts . |
| 24 | In the case of more general or abstract essays ( on whole works , on authors or on critical issues ) , it is necessary to find other means of organising an argument — though some of the means also turn out to be applicable when looking at individual passages . |
| 25 | NOWADAYS it is rare to find classic golf courses which not only welcome visitors but charge reasonable green fees . |
| 26 | It is rare to find diurnal enuresis ( daytime wetting ) without nocturnal enuresis as well ( bed wetting ) . |