Example sentences of "[prep] be find in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Gould 's collecting in Van Diemen 's Land , however , was done within 80 miles of Hobart , on or around the Derwent River and the fertile Macquairie Plains , where kingfishers , water crakes and crow-shrikes , golden plovers and white-fronted herons , bitterns and black-backed porphyrios were to be found in glorious profusion . |
| 2 | Teachers from ethnic minorities are more likely to be found in junior posts than are white teachers : in 1987 ( before the abolition of salary scales ) , 78% of ethnic minority teachers were on scales 1 and 2 ( the lowest ) , compared with 57% of white teachers . |
| 3 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 4 | Now , by a quirk of history , the machinery for carrying out such schemes of training in drama was not to be found in normal educational administration , but in the huge network of social services administered by the National Council of Social Services , a voluntary body financed by Carnegie Trust which since 1919 had co-ordinated the work of various national organisations such as the Village Drama Society , County Rural Community Councils , British Drama League , the Federation of Women 's Institutes , the National Association of Boys ' Clubs , Townswomen 's Guilds , the Workers ' Educational Association , County Youth Committees , the Standing Conference of Drama Associations and Hull University 's Extra-Mural Department , the only university to take interest in Community Drama . |
| 5 | When Rostov had noticed them first , they had been deep in animated conversation — a conspiratorial group of people who were the least likely , considering all the circumstances , to be found in close and apparently friendly contact with one another . |
| 6 | Sometimes they are to be found in close proximity ; and there are certainly empirical connections between them . |
| 7 | The importance of this decision has already been discussed ( p. 36 ) ; the experience is given its full poetic record in Home at Grasmere , that is the First Book of the uncompleted Recluse , to be found in Poetical Works , v , p. 313–39 . |
| 8 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 9 | Rather sadly , the sites allotted to these clinics were often away from the main hospital departments and were either to be found in dungeon-like basements or else in prefabricated huts . |
| 10 | We are driven , then , in our search for the experience to be found in great art , to enquire whether there is available any similar and sufficient channel of supply which is within reach of all without distinction . |
| 11 | Other fragmentary legislation is to be found in recent years , e.g. the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 . |
| 12 | The link between language and planning is to be found in recent Artificial Intelligence research . |
| 13 | Also , if you are studying a period in history before the invention of the camera , there are many paintings that depict Edinburgh that are to be found in various galleries in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | By contrast , plosives are much more likely to be found in male endings ( David , Dick , Jock ) . |
| 15 | Details of conditions of service applicable to civil servants are to be found in Civil Service Pay and Conditions of Service Code , a copy of which may be consulted in the Department of Administration . |
| 16 | ( Similar faults are of course to be found in primary schools . ) |
| 17 | I have first tried to show how their origins are to be found in certain political ideologies . |
| 18 | The concept of social representations is also used in a particular way , in order to suggest that social representations are only to be found in certain societies . |
| 19 | Seasonal peaks are not specific to the service sector ; they are to be found in certain parts of manufacturing — particularly In food processing but also in a number of consumer goods industries -and in agriculture . |
| 20 | A reason why a number of companies that have adopted some form of matrix management have declared it a failure is to be found in inadequate preparation and briefing of those involved . |
| 21 | There are no special deictic terms or elements to be found in lyric poetry . |
| 22 | One theoretical possibility which is thought not to be found in actual practice would be for the plaintiff , in a state of origin which regarded service as a matter for the parties to handle , to be allowed to make a direct approach to the Justice Ministry or other central authority of the state of destination . |
| 23 | It is vulnerable to wider world economic forces , and stability is then to be found in respectable family life and firmly grounded morality . |
| 24 | Along the coast the most obvious signs of positive movement are to be found in drowned river valleys , usually called rias when they are in areas of rugged relief and estuaries when they occur in subdued lowlands . |
| 25 | Formal hunting scenes are firmly rooted in the traditions of the Persian Shahs and princelings who loved to have themselves depicted as noble hunters and horsemen ; such scenes represent the nearest examples of portraiture to be found in traditional rug designs . |
| 26 | Since use of land for domestic and industrial purposes is largely incompatible with clean water , potable supply rivers tend to be found in rural settings where they also have considerable amenity value . |
| 27 | As well as accepting the Dutch theologian 's views on salvation , these English Arminians , or Laudians , exhibited a number of other conservative theological and liturgical positions , which were not to be found in continental Arminianism . |
| 28 | And a much more substantial prospect is to be found in continental Europe , where the German worker is assiduously pricing himself out of the market — and far from the Ossies pricing themselves into jobs lost by the Wessies , the former East Germans are insisting on even more uneconomic wages in relation to their skills and capabilities . |
| 29 | Alternative traditions to the analytic one are mostly to be found in Continental Europe ( and in some North American universities ) . |
| 30 | These British prices are somewhat lower than those to be found in Continental Europe or the USA , but have risen towards European levels in recent years . |