Example sentences of "find an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawing upon the culinary cred associated with ‘ motherhood ’ , the ARC found an Académie des Mères Cuisinières for its more venerable members in 1990 . |
| 2 | Material obtained in such circumstances inevitably contains the seeds of a special inside knowledge , avoiding problems described by Liebow ( 1967 : 232–56 ) , who was still separated by cognitive barriers while pursuing research in what was ostensibly his own society , and who found an insider 's language , education , and ‘ social membership ’ all helped to retain boundaries he was unable to penetrate . |
| 3 | Finally she found an unoccupied hollow . |
| 4 | The yard was a product of piecemeal development over many years and found an important role in the air-braked wagonload network ( Speedlink ) from the 1970s onwards . |
| 5 | One commentator has indeed thought he found an echo of Dryden 's translation of Aeneid 2 , 417-20 , in the opening lines of Canto 4 ; but I am persuaded by later scholars that the case is untenable . |
| 6 | The discontents and aspirations of each individual woman found an answering voice ; joined together , they became a chorus of inspiration for feminism . |
| 7 | Defence must be Gordon 's main worry , however , as at times yesterday , notably when Shaun Edwards found an ocean of space to lay on a try for Andy Platt , the tourists fell short of decent club standards . |
| 8 | Equally , it went through many of the same traumas as Britain in the 1960s and 1970s while the Thatcher crusade for the market-led economy found an echo not only in Reagan 's America , but in France , Australia , Spain , and even social-democratic Sweden . |
| 9 | In his family he found an unlooked-for happiness . |
| 10 | This mythology found an immediate focus : the sodomite was perceived as an internal deviant who refigured a foreign threat , in this case the threat from the French . |
| 11 | The critiques and the alternative policies found an audience because of a number of worrying developments in the mid-1970s ( Chapter 5 ) , independently of the campaigns of Sir Keith Joseph and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | ‘ So we went through Thom 's mail and found an invoice for the furniture shipment to New Jersey . |
| 13 | The Second Division side seemed bereft of ideas until White suddenly found an opening . |
| 14 | I arrived at 10.30 and drove to 31 St Aldate 's where I found an enormous orgy in progress . |
| 15 | The Hatfield study found an uncritical expectation that returning women workers — women already make up a substantial part of small firm employment — would fill the gap left by young people . |
| 16 | In 1872 Mr and Mrs Henry Bingham Mildmay Found an old coastguard caretaking the house , and its untouched and forgotten quality appealed to their fashionable sense of the romantic . |
| 17 | When we got inside the dimly lit space beneath the main altar , we found an open coffin , in which a partially decomposed skeleton was lying . |
| 18 | The Australian case of McKay ( 1957 ) involved a chicken farmer who , when he found an intruder stealing chickens , shot at him five times , killing him . |
| 19 | * Host farmer for the trial , David Lennox found an effective approach to blackgrass control on the field alongside the demonstration site . |
| 20 | Just outside Wolfstein I found an attractive-looking Gasthof at the tiny settlement of Reckweilerhof which is no more really than two large farm steadings , one of which has been turned into a guesthouse . |
| 21 | In this way , Nagata found an intriguing connection between programmed cell death , auto-immune and hereditary disease that may lead to a deeper understanding of these diseases in humans . |
| 22 | Then Edgley found an unplayable lie off the tee ; James could only hack out on to the fairway and Dorset lost the hole to a five . |
| 23 | The second , as spectacular as any this season , came seven minutes from the end when Thomas found an empty net from nearly 50 yards . |
| 24 | In the audience I found an appreciative Dave Allen , the comedian . |
| 25 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 26 | I found an old coat thrown across a garbage can in a back alley . |
| 27 | There is an agreeable story that on arrival the Prince wanted to change money and found an agent who advertised ‘ Here we exchange sovereigns for Napoleons . ’ |
| 28 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 29 | In the April 1958 edition , I found an article entitled ‘ Young–Old Lebanon Lives by Trade ’ , by Thomas J. Abercrombie . |
| 30 | Last year , the Soviets found an error . |