Example sentences of "[verb] to find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 2 | Who would employ a sixty-four-year-old man when there were thousands of young men struggling to find work ? |
| 3 | So far , however , Nelson is struggling to find backers for his ideas . |
| 4 | Ruud Gullit is now often banished to the stand , and the 10 million Jean-Pierre Papin is struggling to find form . |
| 5 | In practice settings , those involved are often struggling to find ways of resolving the dilemmas they face . |
| 6 | I got to find Marie and get my trousers changed . |
| 7 | We can not guarantee a lane but dependent on demand we will endeavour to find space . |
| 8 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 9 | Japanese contractors , hard pressed to find workers and keep costs down , prefer to do business with their neighbours . |
| 10 | The long-overdue report from the Cairngorms Working Party is to be published next Friday after more than two years of debate and consultation which sought to find solutions to cope with increasing people pressure on the area . |
| 11 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton and McKinsey & Co. dominated this business , which sought to find guidelines for company regeneration and solutions for management problems . |
| 12 | In perception , you tend to find models of perception that 're based on top down or bottom processing . |
| 13 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 14 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 15 | New test is developed to find cancer of cervix |
| 16 | Bridges are being built between different confessions , and a new atmosphere of mutual respect is slowly helping to find ways of overcoming what were once felt to be absolutely irreconcilable differences . |
| 17 | One implication is that professional power is not just determined by professional status but by effectiveness in establishing the negotiating processes and helping to find solutions . |
| 18 | René Théodore , designated as Prime minister under the Washington accord , called on Haitians to put pressure on the military government to force its resignation , and on April 13 the Congress rejected a proposal by the C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Raoul Cédras , for a " national conference " ostensibly intended to find ways to restore stability . |
| 19 | Each component of the partition is a cluster , and the algorithm is intended to find clusters which are as far apart as possible . |
| 20 | While the Doctor goes to find help for Steven , Bret attempts to hijack the TARDIS , but is thwarted . |
| 21 | They failed to find evidence that the operation of rule 80a delinked the spot and futures markets , although the operation of this rule led to a slight increase in futures price volatility and a minor reduction in the liquidity of the futures market . |
| 22 | The 10th UN-IAEA inspection on Feb. 3-13 into Iraq 's nuclear weapons failed to find evidence of a suspected secret underground plutonium facility capable of supplying several nuclear warheads a year . |
| 23 | The hunters failed to find Ralph and they returned back to their fort . |
| 24 | Some who failed to find work remained unemployed and dependent on family or charity ; others resorted to domestic contract outwork , where the conditions were just as bad as anything in nineteenth-century Europe . |
| 25 | This failure to find cross-modal priming was confirmed by Clarke and Morton ( 1983 ) and by Morton ( 1979 ) , who failed to find facilitation of visual word identification by prior auditory presentation . |
| 26 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 27 | The pound kept falling , Tony Benn failed to get into the shadow cabinet and 70 per cent of Britoil shares failed to find buyers . |
| 28 | There was surprise among dealers in the room that the fine and large pair of Lacroix de Marseille ‘ Morning ’ and ‘ Evening ’ ( lot 34 ) failed to find buyers : ‘ too big ’ was one verdict , which seemed to be justified by the success of a smaller pair two lots later ( £120,000 ; $192,000 ) . |
| 29 | For these reasons a number of highly estimated lots failed to find buyers while others far exceeded their estimates . |
| 30 | His polished blend of humour , encouragement and persuasion resulted in the sale of fifty-one lots for $19.4 million ( £12.9 million ) , but a further twenty-six lots failed to find buyers . |