Example sentences of "is find " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way for a publisher to finance the publication of an art book is to act with other publishers who will share costs ; an alternative is to find a subsidy . |
| 2 | All three have international sponsors , and Kapuscinski is to find out that the South Africans have invaded in the south of the country , having fallen in love with Savimbi . |
| 3 | What is required , he wrote , is to find an outlet for those energies , for those needs and desires , so that they do not turn inward and rend you to pieces , an outlet , he wrote , but never to imagine that what we do is ever going to be an everlasting achievement . |
| 4 | The first thought is to find and clap in jail |
| 5 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first step is to find the centre of the room by linking the mid-points of opposite walls with string lines . |
| 8 | To take one 's finger off the bounding narrative pulse of Crime and Punishment and to open The Possessed — to open it anywhere — is to find oneself out in the sticks once again : the ‘ our town ’ of the novel and the voice relating its affairs bring back the ‘ we ’ of convict life in The House of the Dead and the more sketchy collective of that remote Siberian community outside the prison walls . |
| 9 | The next stage is to find a piece of plastic or card tube which will just slide snugly over the wound coil to provide the former for the pickup coils . |
| 10 | ‘ The most difficult thing in a situation like this , ’ says Jacques , ‘ is to find words that have n't been used already in a Feydeau farce , ’ as though imitating Feydeau 's words and situations was something that any fool could do . |
| 11 | What a joy it is to find a press pack that is genuinely unusual , interesting , witty , self-deprecating or even just plain mad . |
| 12 | What I am anxious to do is to find things that are not cynically made . |
| 13 | Our mission is to find out how far they have advanced and in Which direction they are heading . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | PERHAPS the biggest challenge is to find the perfect sound to accompany an action which has no equivalent in real life . |
| 16 | Like all mammals , dolphins need air to live , and the first act of life of a newly-born dolphin is to find its way to the surface to breathe . |
| 17 | The next aim for particle physics is to find a theory that unites the strong force with the electro-weak interaction . |
| 18 | The way to escape from the poverty of Esarn is to find work in Bangkok . |
| 19 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |
| 20 | To confront the anger of God , not to hurl it in others ' faces , but in humility to confront it ourselves , is to find a knife to cut through our pious cant , and a fire to burn up our sentimentality and our complacency . |
| 21 | To confront the anger of God is to find some deeper reality about ourselves and our world that we would prefer to forget . |
| 22 | The problem , surely , is to find a satisfactory starting-point for the level of sentences . |
| 23 | However , we can not stress enough how unusual it is to find anyone who conforms to the stereotyped Ms or Mr Trim image . |
| 24 | What you want is to find yourself slim and attractive after a time on an easy , satisfying diet . |
| 25 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 26 | Its task is to find acceptable French terms for the universally used English ones . |
| 27 | In the meantime , the challenge for the Centre-Right is to find an inspiring leader . |
| 28 | The Craft Centre at present contains a craft shop , a tearoom and an exhibition devoted to the Harris tweed industry , and a main problem is to find suitable uses for it outside the short tourist season . |
| 29 | The goal of the engineer is to find a microorganism , generally a bacterium , that will metabolise ( or at least oxidise ) the target contaminant under the conditions in the contaminated site or in an above-ground reactor . |
| 30 | The aim is to find the shortest pipe runs from there to the circuit pipework . |