Example sentences of "and found [pers pn] wanting " in BNC.
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| 1 | They measured Tariff Reform on strictly financial grounds and found it wanting . |
| 2 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 3 | By 1887 , however , he had tried the existing Sunderland Union and found it wanting . |
| 4 | Many had pinned their hopes on the Renewal Movement and found it wanting . |
| 5 | Around the latter group were many who had tried the traditional Marxist left and found it wanting . |
| 6 | Believers have gluttoned on the god of excess and found it wanting . |
| 7 | Another generation found the promise tested , and found it wanting . |