Example sentences of "found a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of agribusiness is felt throughout the Third world , though North American firms have found a major outlet in Latin America . |
| 2 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 3 | A cooler customer , it is suggested , would somehow have sought and found a diplomatic solution . |
| 4 | By happy chance , I had found a private hotel only fifty yards from the Danube and which , unlike its skyscraper neighbours immediately across the river , such as the fashionable Intercontinental , did not cost vast sums of hard currency . |
| 5 | Two Winslow Homers , an oil and a watercolour , were both somewhat problematic : ‘ The unruly calf ’ , from the Pauline Woolworth Trust , showing a boy trying to coax a tethered calf to move ( lot 36 est. $1–1.5 million ) was very flat but still found a private buyer at $1.1 million ( £687,500 ) . |
| 6 | Power-plant maker Bergmann-Borsig ( above ) has found a western buyer . |
| 7 | Once , a message had been sent to Ford in Hollywood , entreating aid for the Navahos after a hard winter , and the director had found a Western script to make in Monument Valley simply to bring some money to the tribe . |
| 8 | The next day , there 's an advert in the paper — that she 'd found a black and white dog and handed it in to the police at Aigburth . |
| 9 | Having found a successful formula , he kept to it . |
| 10 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 11 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 12 | ICI has found a successful way of dealing with this waste without causing any harm to the public in the form of emissions from incineration , so perhaps there is good news to come . |
| 13 | Iraq 's state paper production company has found a successful method of recycling printed paper into writing paper and school notebooks . |
| 14 | IBM has found a lower limit to the width of the line that can be burned in the absorption band . |
| 15 | Other studies have also found a lower prevalence of high EE ( High Expressed Emotion in families is considered to be a factor in relapse of schizophrenia ) in Third World countries . |
| 16 | Police who searched the house of Baland in Blois after his arrest are reported to have found a wide range of forgeries including four Chagall drawings , four works by Dérain , ten by Dufy , two by Jean Cocteau , a Camille Pissarro and eighteen drawings described as being by ‘ Maîtres de l'école de Pont-Aven ’ . |
| 17 | In the reported cases there can be found a wide range of different approaches , from that which treats the Convention as exclusively regulating the procedures to be followed to that which recognises the availability of the Convention but asserts that the powers and practice of United States courts are essentially unaffected . |
| 18 | Sedimentologists have now found a wide variety of applications for CL , and it has become a very important tool for petrographic analysis . |
| 19 | Already , before he has found a theological universe in which to create them , they have the feeling of lost souls , fodder for hell . |
| 20 | She had found a traditional-style establishment , full of oak beams and dried flowers , which specialised in meat grilled on an open fire in the restaurant itself . |
| 21 | But an out-of-work military leader more often found a war-ridden frontier where he could operate without needing to consult his king . |
| 22 | Even cracked pots have found a second life as lamp bases . |
| 23 | After it was found a second time — minus the tools — Mr Brettel , 48 , of Ash , Hants , said : ‘ I thought they were winding me up . |
| 24 | Then they suggested he check out the thriving scene in Berlin , where Eddie ‘ Flashin' ’ Fowlkes — a similarly-underrated innovator — has also found a second spiritual home . |
| 25 | I think a lot of local authorities in particular have now found a tremendous benefit that can accrue from investing in community arts work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Agribusiness has also found a profitable outlet in the production of animal feed . |
| 28 | My one reservation concerns their performance on wet rock — however I 've never found a sole that really grips well on it . |
| 29 | They believe they have found a cheap , practical means of preventing dolphins entangling themselves in monofilament drift fishing nets — the ‘ walls of death ’ believed to be responsible for killing large numbers of dolphins off Cornwall this year . |
| 30 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |