Example sentences of "is find the " in BNC.

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1 AT LEAST Mrs Donaldson ( September ) does n't have to ensure the bearded drinker 's frequent first encounter on the glasses front , which is to find the barman reaching for a pint glass before a word 's been said .
2 The first step is to find the centre of the room by linking the mid-points of opposite walls with string lines .
3 The first step in eradicating dry rot is to find the heart of the outbreak and to trace its extent with great care and thoroughness .
4 PERHAPS the biggest challenge is to find the perfect sound to accompany an action which has no equivalent in real life .
5 The aim is to find the shortest pipe runs from there to the circuit pipework .
6 The secret is to find the right balance in which the safety and high quality of the harvested crop is of paramount importance .
7 Having obtained an exact solution in region IV , the question now is to find the initial conditions which give rise to it .
8 The infant 's problem is to find the ideas ‘ correct ’ for it to learn with .
9 The simplest method of calculating the price index for 1985 is to find the total of the unit prices charged in 1984 ( by adding up the three prices for that year ) and the total of the unit prices charged in 1985 and then to express the latter as a percentage of the former .
10 The best way to buy guitar strings is to find the ones that feel the best to you personally . ’
11 The general step is to find the smallest available cost in the current line , say , and put x i j = .
12 The Lake District needs no introduction and the secret is to find the area usually ignored by those planning walks .
13 The challenge is to find the right string for your game .
14 Our only concern is to find the family . ’
15 The aim is to find the most stable balance achievable , at the lowest possible level .
16 The first , stretching from Howard through Paterson to Ellis and Beto , is , as observed , that the crucial step is to find the right people , particularly for the top jobs .
17 Having established both the ‘ purpose ’ of revolution , and the existence of what appears to be ‘ revolutionary change ’ , the final task is to find the revolutionaries .
18 ‘ Your only concern is to find the plutonium . ’
19 When you have found the web , the next thing is to find the spider .
20 Some of these might be : recognizes that a number of squares can be rearranged and form several different shapes ; knows that , in order to cover a given rectangle with different sizes of squares , the smaller squares will produce the larger numbers ; knows that to find an area is to find the number of unit shapes which will cover a shape .
21 the older the baby gets the less common it is to find the cold injury .
22 Then the natural approach is to find the slope f' of f at N. The algorithm 's step then becomes
23 But in most cases the aim of the social services departments is to find the child a substitute home as near to a good , normal home as possible , until such time as he or she can return to their own home .
24 The ideal to be aimed at is to find the optimum way of balancing the costs of insufficient stock against the costs of holding stock ( tied-up capital , storage space , insurance , damage etc ) .
25 What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t .
26 Most questions focus on one word , all you have to do is to find the correct word or phrase to match it .
27 Finding the hole in a blocked inspection chamber is not always easy : the way to do it is to find the bottom channel and to push the rod along this until it goes down the drain .
28 The primary objective of fundamental analysis is to find the fair price of a share .
29 In a wheezing , faint voice , Wynne-Jones said , ‘ They would be reunited … body and soul … at the place of the deed to be done … the great battle … all quest legend is like this … first thing is to find the inner self … ’
30 ‘ Our problem is to find the connection between the theft of the jewel and the murder of Kemp .
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