Example sentences of "to find [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 2 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 3 | When selecting utterances to practise these intonation patterns it may be more difficult to find complete utterances with the same overall tune , because the intonation pattern may only be carried by a segment of the utterance . |
| 4 | High Street giant Marks & Spencer came last in a poll to find public places with the best facilities for mothers and toddlers . |
| 5 | Lee 's of Liverpool and other John Lewis outlets topped the poll to find public places with the best facilities for mothers and toddlers . |
| 6 | It is easy to find historical problems in the Bible . |
| 7 | Influencing chief executives : The chairman or chief executive is often an enthusiast for the latest management thinking , but it 's generally hard to find direct links with the way they run their companies . |
| 8 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 9 | It is also possible to find explicit expressions for the bulk compliance B(t) and the shear compliance J(t) . |
| 10 | We had three requests to find lost rings at the shop in one day recently . |
| 11 | It was quite normal for us to find large quantities of the latter goods stowed away by crew members against the possibility of long stays in UK waters . |
| 12 | And pointed out that he was doing all he could to find alternative engagements for the musicians . |
| 13 | How do we proceed to find optimum values of the coefficients |
| 14 | Another ceasefire brokered by the European Communities ( EC ) appeared to be holding for a time , as the Hague peace conference continued its efforts to find long-term solutions to the conflict , but the truce collapsed in early October . |
| 15 | And although she does consult with colleagues , advisory committees and city councillors , according to her critics , Dr Fohrbeck fails to present her projects in such a way as to find much-needed allies on the city council . |
| 16 | SHORTLY after the Russians invaded , the famous Barrandov Studios , in which so many world-class directors had worked , were to be used for the making of a film called Factory Of Illusions , in which a young and idealistic graduate of the Film Academy arrives to find well-known film-makers of the New Wave drinking and whoring instead of making films , and almost succumbs to counter-revolution himself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 19 | But however welcome , such generosity did not help solve the central problem which was to find suitable homes for the children . |
| 20 | Consequently , all translations of carpet names and terms are strictly phonetic , and it is therefore not surprising to find wide variations in the spellings of individual towns , weaving groups and designs . |
| 21 | Developing convincing arguments that will satisfy the brokers in the Whitehall market-place ; squeezing the pint of requirements into the half-pint pot of the Long-Term Costings ; and trying to find new paths off the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ are the monotonous fare of the Defence policy-makers . |
| 22 | At that time , the central government , desperate to find new conscripts for the war , for the first time introduced military service for the minority peoples . |
| 23 | Sarron spent his entire GP career with Sonauto and Gauloises and is now working to find new sponsors for the team . |
| 24 | Producers desperately needed to find new outlets for the capacity they had installed in the boom times . |
| 25 | Delegates called for the ARC to conduct urgent genetic research to find new uses for the products of the malt and barley industries . |
| 26 | The humorists needed to find new caricatures for the clergy ; the older , fox-hunting parson was replaced by fanatic young curates . |
| 27 | Western manufacturers will need to find new markets in the Third World , he says . |
| 28 | Its efforts to find new markets in the Balkans had provoked intense nationalist feeling among the smaller peoples of the region . |
| 29 | But the demand for timber was so great , for use in building houses , machinery , furniture and so on , that it outstripped the supply , and ironmasters were aware of the need to find new techniques for the mass-production of iron . |
| 30 | Until then they 'll continue to monitor him , hoping to find new clues about the mysterious ailment . |