Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] to find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main disadvantage is that the range and quality of items on offer is often limited , and although there are usually good examples of the most popular groups , you are less likely to find a wide selection of village and nomadic rugs . |
| 2 | We are not likely to find a cause as precisely as the tubercle bacillus can be shown to produce tuberculosis . |
| 3 | The school does n't have any accommodation of its own but will help if you 're not local to find a decent bed and breakfast in the area . |
| 4 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 5 | Fresh over from Ireland , and I thought it would be so easy to find a little office job — typing , filing . ’ |
| 6 | Relevant , too , are the views of individual judges about the role of the courts in interpreting and applying legislation : some judges may be more prepared to find an ambiguity in statutory language than others or even to interpret a statute ‘ purposively ’ in order to achieve a desired result . |
| 7 | ‘ It used to be virtually impossible to find a place to go . |
| 8 | My canoeing skills , newly acquired , were not tested in Canadians , helmed by a guide , and I am disappointed but as I did n't acquire my elementary skills until I was a 61 year old female I 'm not complaining but I do complain that I 'm quite unable to find a suitable canoe companion now I 'm on my own . |
| 9 | The reason for this in turn is quite straightforward : in any language which makes a distinction between nouns and adjectives , it will be natural to use an adjective when assignment of a property is required ; it may sometimes be quite easy to find an adjective and a noun which express near enough — or even exactly — the same properties , and differ only in that one is an adjective and the other is a noun , but to use the latter for assignment is to risk conveying the unwanted imputation of " entity-hood " on top of the semantic value required ( see Section 1.10 ) ; therefore when a noun or noun phrase is chosen it will normally presuppose that the construction is not that of assignment of a property but instead one of equation . |
| 10 | It would be quite impossible to find a comparable commendation of theological , or indeed ecclesiastical , pluralism coming from pre-conciliar Rome . |
| 11 | ‘ You must be very clever to find a use for something that costs nothing , ’ she said . |
| 12 | As a final point , remember that markets in many gilts and other bonds are illiquid ; so it can be very difficult to find a buyer . |
| 13 | But the time could come when it will be very difficult to find an NHS doctor in the county . |
| 14 | But the time could come when it will be very difficult to find an NHS doctor in the county . |
| 15 | If you are interested in coming to our University we shall be very glad to find a place for you if we can , and most certainly to welcome you if you are admitted . |
| 16 | There are several other wedding anniversaries that would make successful flower pictures — for instance , for the bronze anniversary it would be very interesting to find a coppery frame and some flowers to match . |
| 17 | Inter-City , the next candidate for privatisation , makes money , so it should not be too hard to find a buyer . |
| 18 | This was by no means an uncommon aim among reformers and administrators , and she was no doubt aware that Morant was one of those who were most anxious to find a way of humanizing , not simply young people , but the entire labour-force . |
| 19 | The oil men were always amazed to find a customs vessel operating in their area . |
| 20 | Elderly women were more likely to find a home with the children than were elderly men , doubtless because they were more useful as babysitters and in doing odd bits of sewing . |
| 21 | They were more likely to find an area if a grid of squares was provided , and more likely to find a perimeter if there was no grid but distances round the edges of the figure were labelled ; the use of the terms " perimeter " and " area " , especially the latter , reduced success . |
| 22 | In passing , it is interesting to note that the General Orders require explicitly that the grounds of objection be ‘ distinctly stated ’ ; notwithstanding this , it is most unusual to find a petition which does not say that the petitioner objects to the order ‘ for the reasons , amongst others , hereinafter stated ’ , and it is very common for the petition to end with a statement to the effect that there are divers other provisions of the Bill to which objection is taken . |
| 23 | Though the turning of oval objects is routinely employed now , it is remarkably difficult to find a textbook that describes how it is done , or a mechanical engineering department that can teach it . |
| 24 | I know from my work with homeless families that such people invariably need help late at night , in the early hours of the morning or at weekends , when it is especially difficult to find a general practitioner who will respond quickly to a call to see someone who has arrived on the doorstep — in my case that means the doorstep of the YMCAs for which I worked . |
| 25 | Israel is small and densely populated so it is extremely difficult to find a site for a nuclear plant . |
| 26 | There is a strong tendency for tone-unit boundaries to occur at boundaries between grammatical units of higher order than words ; it is extremely common to find a tone-unit boundary at a sentence boundary , as in : I wont have any tea I do nt like it |
| 27 | Because there are fewer short than medium-sized men , a suit made to their measurements is less likely to find a buyer , and is knocked down accordingly . |
| 28 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 29 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 30 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |