Example sentences of "find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Laurence Olivier did not find fatherhood easy . |
| 2 | You will find crockery and electric kettle to enable you to make a hot drink . |
| 3 | At one end of the line you 'll find Sheffield park Gardens , an example of Capability Brown at his best . |
| 4 | I suppose he hopes the pathologist who butchers her will find skin tissue under her nails . |
| 5 | The area has encouraged entrepreneurs and investors since the late 1930s when engineering professor , Frederick Terman , the acknowledged ‘ father of Silicon Valley ’ , attracted engineers and scientists from the east and helped them find money for their work . |
| 6 | The council will always find money for whatever suits it , but when it comes to the elderly — the most vulnerable in our society — they always play ducks and drakes . |
| 7 | And your choice if you do n't find money to , I think not one of ceasing the service , but finding offsetting savings elsewhere , and I mean it 's a matter of there is a required service , it is there , there is an agreement with the health authority that neither party would , will withdraw funding without detailed con consultation and determination of how needs would be met . |
| 8 | We can expect being cheated by the Tories , but Mr Quinn can perhaps explain how his party can always find money to pay for perks and excursions to faraway places for councillors and £3.5m expenditure upon the County Hall . |
| 9 | It is assumed that a text , or a film , is not something which has a set of meanings which can be extracted from it , but something whose meanings exist only because they are part of a wider social world ; people can find meanings only if their world shares some common meanings with that of the text . |
| 10 | Shall we find paradise together ? ’ |
| 11 | There was a newspaper open at the local pages on top of the freezer , and as he munched the roll Zen read an article describing the life and times of the late head of the Miletti family in such exorbitantly fulsome terms that Zen wondered in his dour Venetian way whether such a paragon would find Paradise quite good enough for him . |
| 12 | But Claudia 's notes tell another story : she was intrigued by the whole idea and even suggested to Leavitt where they might find lions . |
| 13 | Like the ambulance service who is having to go out and find income , having to do health and safety checks at factories just when you need an ambulance . |
| 14 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 15 | Opposite Via Cerva is Via Cino del Duca in which you will find Palazzo Parravicini and Palazzo Bolagnos . |
| 16 | Now we 'll go and find mum . |
| 17 | William had hidden from Ernest , and Ernest asked Elizabeth and me to help find William . |
| 18 | At other times he would find Marcus talking to Irina , and ready to go out for a walk . |
| 19 | TeleOrdering users will also find titles wrongly designated in their next morning answerbacks , although orders will still be routed to Penguin . |
| 20 | You may also find icons which do no more than invoke an error message because the associated program or file has been erased from the harddisk . |
| 21 | On stand duty at a recent careers convention , my distant thoughts were interrupted by approach of a young bloke enquiring as to where he could find PCL . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid , ’ she said , ‘ you 'll find intrigue everywhere you look , but it 's what business thrives on . ’ |
| 23 | This can and does of course occur in many other churches too , but the new churches may find change occurs more easily and more quickly . |
| 24 | ‘ You will find change , ’ said my young driver . |
| 25 | He will find support on the Conservative benches , as members of the Commons Social Services Select Committee seek to refer the bill to a standing committee . |
| 26 | This may find support in the fact that most of the confusions in terminology are found in what might be called the ‘ editorial ’ parts of the texts , in which the context is being briefly introduced before the decision of the master is quoted . |
| 27 | The authoritarianism of a party will never find support among many of those young people , whose culture is so distinctively post-punk . |
| 28 | In local government we might find groups composed of councillors , officers , local businessmen and women , client groups , voluntary agencies , all attempting to get their views accepted . |
| 29 | Surely any minute she would wake up and find Marc lying beside her , his arms holding her in the loving way of barely twelve hours ago ? |
| 30 | After Luxor , you will find Aswan . |