Example sentences of "to find [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For pupils of below average ability it is not so unusual to find discussions of the whole curriculum taking place , perhaps because of their perceived ‘ low ’ status or because there are no public examination constraints . |
| 2 | Conceptualising , therefore , is best understood as the mental effort that people make in understanding their circumstances and attempting to find solutions to the practical problems and frustrations they find on a day-to-day basis . |
| 3 | Given his definition of class , Poulantzas has got to find traces of the working class in the political and ideological spheres . |
| 4 | Russell said that the police once used either steam-distillation or vacuum extraction to find traces of the common accelerants such as petrol , paraffin , paint thinners and white spirit , that spread fires . |
| 5 | Paratroopers ( from the left ) Alex Poole , Eric Sekwalor , John Sowerby and Sean Ollsson came third in the four-man push competition organised by the British Bobsleigh Association to find crews for the new season . |
| 6 | Not surprising , you might think , in animals designed by Darwinian evolution to find associations in the real world . |
| 7 | Similarly , a group of eighteenth-century French decorative prints by Janinet , Bonnet and others ( the second part of the collection partly sold last summer ) struggled to find buyers in the main , although Stanley Johnson bought the charming ‘ Les Hazards heureux de l'Escarpolette ’ ( lot 243 , est. £2,500–3,500 ) by de Launay after Fragonard for £4,200 ( $6,342 ) and David Tunick outbid Andre Candillier for ‘ The Mariage [ sic ] Presents ’ by Bonnet , part printed in gold ( lot 257 , est. £1,500–2,500 ) which made £4,000 ( $6,040 ) . |
| 8 | The main city centre hospital was packed with injured people , many brought by taxi , and inundated with hundreds of people trying to find relatives among the dead or injured . |
| 9 | The main city centre hospital was packed with injured people , many brought by taxi , and inundated with hundreds of people trying to find relatives among the dead or injured . |
| 10 | The Far East is also an important area but it has been difficult to find firms of the requisite standard who are independent . |
| 11 | Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem . |
| 12 | In this the aim is to find answers to the following questions : |
| 13 | To understand is to reproduce the order in the minds of actors ; to explain is to find causes in the scientific manner . |
| 14 | Most of the party leaders were in any case inherited from Balfour and it would take time to find men of the new stamp , even if this were possible . |
| 15 | The restructuring would be supported by loans totalling between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000 from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) to provide those dismissed with compensation , training and advice to enable them to find jobs in the private sector . |
| 16 | It is rare for an overseas couple to find jobs in the same area — most travel to obtain a job wherever offered . |
| 17 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 18 | Walk through into the courtyard to find remains of the late 16C designs of the Labours of Hercules . |
| 19 | Metaphor denies us a literal sense , and so induces us to make sense , ie to find interpretations beyond the truth-functional meaning captured by paraphrase . |