Example sentences of "find [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This eight hundred year old skull of a Viking found off the northern coast of Scotland |
| 2 | to find about the local organisations that may offer help |
| 3 | But they 're fi , they 're going to find about it cos it 's everywhere . |
| 4 | I was fortunate to find between the leaves of a large book an exquisitely penned transcription of the Commandments and the Lord 's Prayer , all embraced in a delicate architectural framework , dating from the late eighteenth century . |
| 5 | 9.7 Distribution of post-holes : ( a ) found during excavations at Petters Sports Field in Surrey ; ( b ) and ( c ) show an archaeologist 's interpretation of the structures that gave rise to medium depth and deep post-holes , respectively . |
| 6 | As Kahl found during his research in Mexico and Brazil , the higher the social status the greater the likelihood of modernism ( Kahl 1970 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I found during this and subsequent stages , that the A.G. [ Adjutant General 's ] Branch was unfailingly obstructive and uncooperative . ’ |
| 8 | If , as we found during 1973 and 1974 , the risk characteristics were changing , then the ‘ usefulness ’ of the Trusts would be diminished , unless of course managers have a more accurate forecasting ability than the market price makers . |
| 9 | I recently found about 30 dead flies attached to a weed ( Chenopodium sp . ) |
| 10 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 11 | ‘ I literally found about our endorsement of used motor-oil from someone I was phoning to find out whether the stuff was OK , ’ says the group 's Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time , Dave Bruer . |
| 12 | Well erm made models with stones and other rubbish that we found about the place and a whole pile of had still standing . |
| 13 | Erm , we 've got some publicity material produced , posters we intend doing several displays county hall , headquarters , all police stations will have posters sent out to them , probably libraries will be circulated with them , er it 's a last minute job typical we only just found about it , we do what we can we need some sort of press exercise do n't we you know . |
| 14 | Or what you found about the conversation , but your completion is mainly about the insights of doing this erm , transcription . |
| 15 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 16 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 17 | It naturally combines with the view that individuals should develop freely to find for themselves the form of the good which they wish to pursue in their life . |
| 18 | Every couple has to find for themselves where this balance lies and , to be frank , this can be hard for some because one partner 's idea of novelty is the other 's perception of tedium . |
| 19 | A single leaf of the Gutenberg ( or Mazarin ) Latin Bible of c.1456 is likely to cost from £2,000-£3,000 ; even an imperfect copy of Coverdale ( which is the only condition in which it occurs ) will probably fetch from £5,000-£10,000 according to the nature of its deficiencies ; and a reasonable copy of the first issue of the first edition of the Authorised Version would be hard to find for less than £2,000-£3,000 . |
| 20 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 21 | The need is to change them ; to find for the means of production and provision another structure such as will of its nature avoid the dilemma with which the present dispensation ultimately confronts the country : either unacceptably high and chronic unemployment or unacceptable and uncontrollable inflation , each so operating as eventually to destabilise society to the point where the purposes of liberal democracy can no longer be entertained , let alone fulfilled . |
| 22 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 23 | And in saying this sort of thing to its own members , the church also invites the rest of the community to find for itself , people within the community to find for themselves , the positive benefits of living in obedience to the word of God . |
| 24 | And in saying this sort of thing to its own members , the church also invites the rest of the community to find for itself , people within the community to find for themselves , the positive benefits of living in obedience to the word of God . |
| 25 | Safely there , she lit the gas , with one of the solid and reliable wooden matches Signor Fixit had been able to find for her , and put on the kettle . |
| 26 | Right away I said , I have three people to find for working class areas who collect stamps , who are interested in stamps . |
| 27 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 28 | In this case the plaintiffs , a firm of estate agents , were employed by the defendants to find for them and to negotiate a lease of office and shop accommodation . |
| 29 | By the heathen poor , who had to find for James , |
| 30 | I think that , you know George would n't mind er , and Maria would n't mind , maybe it 's Martin trying to find for for our Martin . |