Example sentences of "[was/were] find [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although descriptions of these defences on Atlantic and North Sea coastlines could in pal t be gleaned from aerial photographs , much lay hidden ; as the Canadians were to find at Dieppe . |
| 2 | This could be interpreted in different ways , as later patriots were to find to their cost . |
| 3 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 4 | The Stocks of two guns were found at Eddington Hill , near Hungerford . |
| 5 | 7 per cent of Bewick swans and 48 per cent of Whooper swans were found at post mortem to have died from lead shot poisoning . |
| 6 | The remains of one were found at Rye on 27 November 1938 ; one was seen off Langney Point on 4 June 1956 . |
| 7 | Others were found at Stoke Newington , north London , and at Tottenham Court Road in the West End . |
| 8 | Magistrates at Buckingham , Bucks , heard how French , 56 , defied a 15-year ban on keeping animals imposed last year after more than 400 starving ewes and 25 cattle skeletons were found at Brook Farm near Winslow , Bucks . |
| 9 | The document also stated that ‘ reactionary leaflets ’ which had been circulated in Sera monastery in Lhasa were found at Dorje Wangdu 's home and that he had ‘ distributed symbols of personal protection ’ ( amulets blessed by a high lama ) , brought ‘ from abroad ’ , to monks in Ganden monastery . |
| 10 | They were found at Caren 's Irish family home . |
| 11 | A MOTHER was being questioned by murder squad detectives last night after the bodies of her two young children were found at their home . |
| 12 | The hyacinthine macaws , worth £25,000 as a breeding pair , were found at Henley , Oxon . |
| 13 | Another 30 forgeries were found at Sheffield Wednesday 's match against Chelsea . |
| 14 | They were found at the bottom of drawers , in filing cabinets , and stuffed in amongst other papers . |
| 15 | By 1500 BC , the metal workers of Crete were producing a large range of cooking and storage utensils , including some large cauldrons made by riveting together several bronze sheets : some fine examples were found at Tylissos . |
| 16 | Some well-made metal fish-hooks were found at Gournia ( Figure 36B ) , together with a lead sinker for a fishing line and some stones which could have been used for weighing nets . |
| 17 | It may be thought odd that no large bronze double-axes were found at Knossos or Phaistos , but this is probably because the sites were ransacked in antiquity and plundered of their usable and precious metal objects . |
| 18 | It appears as a motif in pottery decoration and models of it in ivory or faience were found at Knossos , Zakro and Mycenae . |
| 19 | The early Holocene plants were found at Site E-75–6 , at Nabta Playa , near the Egyptian-Sudanese border . |
| 20 | No less than 173 coins were found at the bottom of the pool together with a large number of rings , bracelets , brooches and other objects : evidence which strongly suggests a votive deposit . |
| 21 | Participants from England were found at tournaments in northern France and the Low Countries — at Compiègne in 1278 and at Mons in 1310 . |
| 22 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 23 | Two further quantities of heroin were found at his home , amounting to 26 grammes . |
| 24 | Two spoiled griffin-heads were found at the Samian Heraion , showing that they were made there , as no doubt they were at Olympia too . |
| 25 | Finally , men who had never married were found at increased risk since the 1940s , indicating a potential association with male homosexuality . |
| 26 | Anderson in " Scotland in Pagan Times " tells of 36 gold annular armlets , all melted except one , which were found at Coull . |
| 27 | Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) . |
| 28 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 29 | The certificates were found at Heathrow , Cyprus and |
| 30 | The papers were found at Locan Street near the Royal Victoria Hospital . |