Example sentences of "be to find a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no outside market for the output of Division A. We are to find a suitable transfer price . |
| 2 | The main aim must be to find a public use providing public access . |
| 3 | They decided that the undercover plotters would be most afraid of publicity and political pressure and that their best hope would be to find an influential member of parliament who would believe their story . |
| 4 | Rising real incomes , especially for the young , minimal unemployment , and greater personal freedom from into which sportsmen , especially footballers , were to find an important place . |
| 5 | The problem is to find a convincing argument for local ethical scepticism which has no expansionist tendencies . |
| 6 | The area will face a herculean task if it is to find a new occupier for that factory . |
| 7 | The challenge then is to find a new use which will not only secure the future of the house but undo some of the damage that has been done . |
| 8 | The Travelling Salesman 's Problem ( TSP ) is to find a minimal length tour , where is the distance from town i to town j . |
| 9 | Consequently , our first step is to find a feasible solution of the dual constraints , for some positive weights , if one exists . |
| 10 | Enquiries at Enterprise Agencies suggest that many people wishing to set up businesses are doing so with redundancy money or for other reasons connected with the difficulty of finding employment and their first need is to find a suitable idea . |
| 11 | The difficulty is to find a good description language in which to express the learning situation . |
| 12 | What we need is to find a safe place soon , and I 'd rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we ca n't . " |
| 13 | If social services agrees , the next step is to find a registered home which is offering a place at the approved weekly cost . |
| 14 | The obvious aim of this is to find a functional description of the growth of a given plant , which is of use in predicting future growth at any point , and particularly in early disease spotting . |
| 15 | The most serious difficulty faced when trying to assess the extent of poverty in any society is to find a clear definition which is easily understood and universally accepted . |
| 16 | The problem , surely , is to find a satisfactory starting-point for the level of sentences . |
| 17 | It is therefore wrong to counterpose ‘ politics ’ under capitalism ( i.e. realm of conflict of interests ) against ‘ administration ’ under socialism is to find a satisfactory mode of institutionalising conflict Marx and Engels ' formulations suggest . |
| 18 | One general problem of socialism is to find a satisfactory mode of institutionalising conflict over the allocation of resources within the context of planning , and minimising the antagonisms it could generate . |
| 19 | When using the basic structure for processing of innovative projects , the challenge is to find a proper balance between short-term projects , which require a considerable amount of order and discipline , and innovative projects , which require more freedom and flexibility . |
| 20 | In the meantime , the challenge for the Centre-Right is to find an inspiring leader . |
| 21 | A useful device is to find an empty room , away from all your papers , documents , and other distractions . |
| 22 | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy ‘ the most beautiful dress in New York ’ , telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband . |
| 23 | Now all that remained was to find a suitable woman to replace Mildred . |
| 24 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 25 | When I awoke , it was to find a neat pile of signed bar bills on a desk next to the window , amid a rather satisfying scene of destruction . |
| 26 | Our practice for rest days was to find a safe harbour for the ship where she could be left alongside with two standby crew on board while the rest of the lads went home . |
| 27 | There he was to find an adopted father in his American employer , a New Orleans storekeeper . |