Example sentences of "[been] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 2 | The last time she had woken from sleep it had been to find herself looking into the blue eyes of a dangerous enemy ; now the enemy was a friend . |
| 3 | The real difficulty has always been to find an alternative to the Hegelian dialectic — difficult because strictly speaking it is impossible , insofar as the operation of the dialectic already includes its negation . |
| 4 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 5 | He had first been found guilty of setting fire to an armoured personnel carrier commandeered by students and a car during the 19898 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing . |
| 6 | Ask for this claim to be investigated , and find out whether anyone has been found responsible and brought to justice . |
| 7 | Fraser 's book is not without its evident presuppositions , and not every reader will feel that this autobiographer , having perused and digested his tape-recordings , talked to his analyst and completed his inner and outer voyages , knew something radically different about his past from what he had known before : that something had been found , or proved . |
| 8 | Support for this line of approach has been found in Greeley and Rossi 's ( 1966 ) survey in the USA on the effectiveness of catholic schools . |
| 9 | Although considerable effort has been made to develop an automatic release for the towplane , the problems are not as simple as they might at first seem and so far no really satisfactory technical answer has been found . |
| 10 | Had been found lacking by Dionne and it hurt . |
| 11 | lumps of concrete had been found on the line in front of the first train |
| 12 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 13 | ( The asbestos had been built into the carriages to act as sound and heat insulation , but had of course later been found to be a health hazard . ) |
| 14 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 15 | The cost of the rail link was a paltry £12million and all but three million pounds had been found elsewhere . |
| 16 | By last night , six oil-soaked birds had been found and taken to an RSPCA shelter at Fareham , Hampshire . |
| 17 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Catholic bishop of the Colombian town of Arauca has been found murdered with several bullet wounds in the head . |
| 18 | A minor abnormality in the chromosomes which control development has been found in a brother and sister , both of whom were mentally retarded , according to a report in tomorrow 's edition of The Lancet . |
| 19 | Trowark himself would most likely have been found under the thick cable-knit cover of his Cornish Knit Frock . |
| 20 | He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium . |
| 21 | Salmonella has been found in four other consignments — mainly from Holland — since April . |
| 22 | A statement from the Stevens team said a number of photo-montages and some ammunition had been found during searches of the homes of UDR members . |
| 23 | In Rio de Janeiro , dead street children have been found trussed in barbed wire , with their eyes gouged out , and even decapitated with a chainsaw . |
| 24 | Evidence from Sweden , where enteriditis has never been found in a poultry flock , shows food poisoning in humans exactly matches the UK profile and , in percentage terms , is running at a higher rate . |
| 25 | So far , about 6lb of Semtex , a number of rounds of ammunition and a loaded pistol have been found at Crumlin Road jail , Belfast . |
| 26 | But it is safe to assume that the lack of technical evidence — no weapon connected to the murder has been found — and a valid motive will be cited . |
| 27 | In the past this plant would only have been found on the better drained slopes leading to our moorland plateaux , but because of man 's interference in this environment , by digging drainage ditches and lowering the water table , the plant has been able to spread onto the plateaux themselves . |
| 28 | Only traces of her body have been found . |
| 29 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
| 30 | After all , privatization , deregulation , tax cuts , falling capital markets , and reducing union power have been found in other states in the 1980s . |