Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , y-yes , ’ she stammered , her heart suddenly finding a lot of extra energy . |
| 2 | I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum . |
| 3 | First Edition TWO MEN who fled after bungling a raid on a shop jumped into a getaway car only to find a policeman at the wheel . |
| 4 | We had of course already found a transient increase in the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor . |
| 5 | Contemporary artists favour a droit de suite with near unanimity , even though their work rarely finds a secondary market . |
| 6 | The soul of a true Hero always finds a better rate of exchange , and is valued highly by the gods . |
| 7 | The situation was further complicated by those like Stubbes and Perkins who saw dress contusion as symptomatic of impending social collapse , and those like James I whose hatred of female cross-dressing introduced a misogynistic factor which antedated current social anxiety yet found a powerful focus in it . |
| 8 | Theories of maternal need rapidly found a place in countless training courses for workers with children . |
| 9 | The novelist in search of character thus finds a fellow-worker in the painter . |
| 10 | At that moment the senators wife sensed the eyes of another man upon her and turned her head quickly to find a tall , leanfaced Frenchman in a white dinner jacket standing beside the governor 's aide , watching her intently . |
| 11 | While water certainly found a place in the past in the landscapes of famous gardeners like Capability Brown , this was scarcely water gardening as we know it today . |
| 12 | Another eighty yards had to be traversed — to Charlie it felt more like a mile — before the captain eventually found a tiny gap which he was able to crawl through . |
| 13 | If the Commission then finds a proposal to be incompatible with the common market it is empowered to require its abolition or alteration , subject to the right of appeal to the European Court of Justice . |
| 14 | Picturesque eclecticism never found a place there , and a classical tradition emerged which set Australia apart from Canada , India , South Africa , and even to a certain extent neighbouring New Zealand . |
| 15 | The Chinese market for it already existed , and the Company also found a new market for it in England , where it was used as a narcotic and as a pain-killer , for which it was much more satisfactory than the only available alternative , alcohol . |
| 16 | The 1983 British Election Survey also found a change over recent years in favour of ‘ liberal ’ social policies . |
| 17 | Not much new about that you might think , given the traditionally British trait of self-denigration , but the survey also found a further 42pc , or 84 companies , were genuine contenders for that elite gathering . |
| 18 | It was an adventure even to find a stone , a clock movement , a tram ticket , a pretty leg , an insect , the corner of one 's own room ; all these things could inspire pure and direct feeling . |
| 19 | The painting dates from around 1903–05 but was only rediscovered last year in New England , where it had been bought for $175 in 1905 when the artist made a trip abroad to find a new audience for his Nihonga work . |
| 20 | Because the project had no say in the choice of home help for a client , the development officer sometimes found a client with a home help whom she thought was unsuitable or would not work well with her support workers . |
| 21 | This dimension of Lacan also finds a precedent in Freud : ‘ the programme of becoming happy , which the pleasure principle imposes on us , can not be fulfilled ; yet we must not — indeed , we can not — give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other , ( xii.271 ) . |
| 22 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |