Example sentences of "[noun sg] in finding the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives involved in the murder inquiry had not been fooled by Green 's charade of wanting to help them — he had even appeared on TV with a tearful plea for aid in finding the killer . |
| 2 | Yesterday Mr Newman 's girlfriend appealed for help in finding the person responsible for what police called the ‘ maniacal ’ killing of Mr Newman . |
| 3 | Arrangements will have to be made with a suitable removal firm if she is going to bring some of her furniture with her , and she may need help in finding the best dealers or auctioneers to take the items she wants to dispose of . |
| 4 | Symptoms like this are called strange , rare and peculiar , and are often of prime importance in finding the remedy or group of remedies from which to make one 's selection . |
| 5 | Lexical links pose greater difficulties in implementation because of frequent ambiguity in finding the definition of a word amongst its many usages in a text . |
| 6 | During the dance the other bees can smell her scent and then use this knowledge in finding the food . |
| 7 | The ‘ bubble ’ strategy introduced in 1979 , and incorporated into the Emissions Trading Policy of 1982 , exemplifies the flexible approach by giving plant managers considerable freedom in finding the cheapest , most efficient way of meeting pollution control standards ( Behr , 1979 ; Liroff , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 9 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 10 | I had gone through the most difficult period in an athlete 's career , that time before he makes the breakthrough , when he has difficulty in finding the right kind of competition , when money is tight . |
| 11 | Ramsay 's company had no difficulty in finding the Scots army once they reached lower Annandale , for any large host leaves ample tracks behind . |
| 12 | Some intending buyers might have difficulty in finding the purchase price . |
| 13 | Mr Bull , 75 , said he would not have too much difficulty in finding the extra £15 a year to pay for the new road tax fees and would economise on petrol . |
| 14 | ‘ With all seven steam locomotives in steam outside the engine shed at Llanberis on a sultry summer 's morning , passengers have been known to have difficulty in finding the ticket office ! |
| 15 | Non-typists therefore experience considerable difficulty in finding the desired keys , and errors are commonplace . |
| 16 | Use a sharpened trowel or knife to cut a neat flap ( do not remove the plug of earth entirely from the ground ) , extract the object , replace the soil and grass carefully and even you will have difficulty in finding the spot again . |
| 17 | The drawers of the desk were all locked but he had no difficulty in finding the right key . |
| 18 | I have the greatest difficulty in finding the remotest sense in the policy of a party which says that it is in favour of investment but which goes out of its way by every possible means to penalise saving . |
| 19 | Skilled readers are only occasionally conscious of misunderstanding a complex sentence , or having difficulty in finding the correct association such as that between ‘ likes ’ and ‘ dog ’ . |
| 20 | A further delaying factor was Noriega 's difficulty in finding the funds to pay his defence team . |
| 21 | A good working dog — at least one is essential for any stock farmer but the Hauxwells did n't always have much luck in finding the right one . |
| 22 | Mr Singh said Pakistan 's promise of full co-operation in finding the Memons was a good start , but added that it was curious that the Memons had chosen to go to Pakistan . |
| 23 | Many of the millions of unemployed will also have trouble in finding the cash for this particular commitment . |
| 24 | She had advantages , of course : a moneyed and cultured background , and a great canniness in finding the right teachers . |
| 25 | These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order . |
| 26 | There were a number of questions in written tests to assess pupils ' performance in finding the area or the perimeter of rectangular shapes . |
| 27 | Eros ( W2 5a , 5b 5b ) is well worth the effort in finding the protection on the second pitch . |
| 28 | That the Disciplinary Committee erred in principle in finding the complaint proven ; that is , that the decision was perverse in that the weight of evidence supplied did not support the allegation made ; |
| 29 | My experience is that patients have little problem in finding the pattern and dosage which suits them . |
| 30 | She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house . |