Example sentences of "to find [det] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully .
2 This has allowed a consensus style of politics to be adopted by the Area Manpower Boards as employers and employees strive to find some solutions to the socio-economic difficulties facing their regions .
3 The counsellor 's task is to find these reasons within the emotional life of the individual .
4 According to senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank of Scotland , while this would mean formalising what is already a de-facto two-tier market , it is unlikely to find many objectors among the ranks of private investors .
5 It should be noted that an organizational type unrepresented so far is the reputedly widespread model whereby there is informal specialization by client group through weighted caseloads ( which may or may not be similar to the model exemplified by Team C ) ; and that it may not be easy to find many examples of the Team A type .
6 The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 .
7 To find enough opponents of the left who were not too far committed in the other direction proved more difficult than we had imagined .
8 During the last two days labourers had climbed every local coconut tree to find enough nuts at the precise stage when the juice starts turning into flesh .
9 But getting dates locally is a problem : ‘ It 's a struggle to find any venues in the area to pay at , ’ says group spokesman Magnus Wilson-Webb .
10 The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of .
11 He had long ago realised that if he was going to find any clues to the whereabouts of the Way Out , the location or identity of the Key , there was a good chance he might get some ideas from that type of writing .
12 It was impossible to find any landmarks for the moment .
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