Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] found of " in BNC.

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1 perhaps a way should be found of ensuring that we experience both the ordinariness and the extraordinariness of the glass , he wrote .
2 A way must be found of ending their practices , but not at the expense of the Constitution .
3 An alternating audio signal is required from pin 6 , and a means must be found of preventing this ‘ feeding back ’ to pin 2 and cancelling itself out .
4 Economic models are particularly useful since millions of daily transactions are carried out in the real world and so some means must be found of expressing the essential characteristics of the problem at hand .
5 Bains believed ‘ that the advice of officers must be available wherever the effective decisions are taken and if it is the party group which makes those decisions then a way must be found of making the officers ’ advice available ’ ( Bains 1972 : 18 — 19 ) .
6 These writers , like the theorists whom they criticized , started from the assumption that the governments of Europe were still in a ‘ state of nature ’ and that some means must be found of restraining their innate propensity to attack and injure one another .
7 I agree with my hon. Friend that recent cases last far too long , and that a means must be found of securing quicker trials .
8 On the other hand , if the simulation is to be carried out by computer a way must be found of getting the computer to generate random sequences of numbers such as would be obtained by throwing a dice a number of times .
9 Miss Spencer-Nairns solicitors say that a better way must be found of compensating the victims of medical treatment , regardless of if there 's any blame .
10 No record could be found of my previous day 's arrangements .
11 It would be nice if some way could be found of keeping this tradition alive in modern society .
12 She immediately informed the police but no trace could be found of thief or machine .
13 ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work .
14 Eventually , they supposed , some means would be found of paying the wretched girl off , when Philip came to his senses .
15 This distinction can be backed up by philosophy and aesthetics , and descriptions can be found of the resultant moments of vision or epiphanies .
16 Examples certainly can be found of men giving practical support to relatives on a reciprocal basis , usually involving typically ‘ male ’ activities such as gardening and decorating ( Pahl , R.E. , 1984 ) .
17 Examples can be found of grandparents buying basic necessities such as food and clothing for their grandchildren , as well as more substantial purchases .
18 The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism .
19 ‘ From the first traces of their existence to this day , no example can be found of an interposition by the courts of Westminster Hall proceeding according to the general law of the land ; but the judges have acted as in a domestic forum .
20 Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 .
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