Example sentences of "and [noun pl] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Songs and sketches find her playing anything from a charity ball organiser to a TV agony aunt ( Irish , like Dillie herself ) . |
| 2 | Some of the designs , including the wrought-iron flower stand at the end of Chapter 10 , were based on objects and views found in Edie 's garden . |
| 3 | A choreographer working in the classical style is wise to conform to the traditional principles and rules found valuable through years of experience . |
| 4 | Since governments are not involved , the role of lawyers is reduced and the procedure is more flexible and informal , proposals can be implemented more rapidly , and rules found to cause difficulty can be changed more readily . |
| 5 | Different sections or departments may seek authority over the same territory of operations , and superiors find it difficult to delegate sufficient authority to satisfy subordinates ; |
| 6 | Qaryal al-Fau consists almost entirely of superb photographs of the site and objects found , with a brief commentary in English and Arabic , meant to serve as an introduction for the 10 specialist volumes to follow . |
| 7 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 8 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 9 | In fact , his parents discouraged Gedge , especially when they suspected it was infringing on his studies and attempts to find a job . |
| 10 | Hence , when used to disambiguate a document taken from the domain of Banking , the second entry is more appropriate , because it is more representative of the likely word senses and collocations found in such a text . |
| 11 | The charges , heard at Leominster , follow eight visits by the RSPCA last winter to two farms , at Lentwardine and Eardisland in Herefordshire , where inspectors and vets found horses so neglected one of them had hooves 10 inches long . |
| 12 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 13 | It took us 20 minutes of scrambling through squalid , ruined alleyways before we reached the place , clambering over burnt-out buses and cars to find some Christian gunmen sitting on a pile of earth , smoking cigarettes . |
| 14 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 15 | They are based on a refinement of the natural movements made by the bones and joints when activated by the muscles , tendons and ligaments found in any human body . |
| 16 | The main premise is that the corporatist strategies developed almost universally by authoritarian regimes in order to organize and control civil society , serve simultaneously to create the political context for popular responses ; and special attention will therefore be paid to the ways in which unions , community groups and parties find the political space to organize within the institutions of these regimes . |
| 17 | Some users and classifiers find it beneficial to have a notation which is sufficiently flexible to permit a variety of citation orders to be adopted as appropriate to the document and the user 's perspective . |
| 18 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 19 | Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus . |
| 20 | These series paintings can be seen as Monet 's riposte ; they insist on an empirical , pragmatic response to the nuances , variants and surprises found in nature . |
| 21 | One by one the Parsons ' former friends and acquaintances found reasons not to accept our invitations , and although they claimed to be anxious that we should ‘ get together some time ’ , that time never came . |
| 22 | You might think they would all be terrified of having their family and acquaintances find out . |
| 23 | The version for SunOS supports all features and functions found in the Aion Development System Version 6.0 , including the Aion High Performance Option for faster and leaner compiled knowledge bases ; relational database interfaces , providing direct access to external databases ; and an application programming interface for linking to external programs , specialised data and different computers . |
| 24 | Centres for the physically handicapped have traditionally taken the elderly , and youngsters finding themselves there after leaving school may feel their adult lives have ended rather than just begun . |
| 25 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 26 | Secondly , says Crowson , the very existence of a stockpile can dull the incentive among both governments and companies to find new sources for materials or to replace the materials with something else that is cheaper or easier to obtain , due to new technology . |
| 27 | So it is that the fetish of masculinity is fashioned in men-only milieus — we look to footballers , boxers , soldiers and miners to find our real men . |
| 28 | Children find it difficult to come to terms with the responsibilities involved , and parents find it difficult to relinquish them . |
| 29 | With the slump in building work , the market forces reversed and contractors found themselves in a fiercely competitive market with tenders very keenly priced . |
| 30 | Problems remain , however , because of such evidence as the weights and balances found in Kentish graves . |