Example sentences of "to find [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the two bodies to be declared as interfering it is sufficient to find only that any surface of one body has an intersection with any of the surfaces of the second , within their boundaries ( including holes ) . |
| 2 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 3 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 4 | A little to the north of it , I was delighted to discover , is a monastery by the name of Belloc , as if in honour of the English Catholic writer and Pyrenean devotee , Hilaire Belloc ( I was gratified to find later that there is at least one other Belloc or Bellocq in the Pyrenees ) . |
| 5 | He went to the youth 's ‘ assistance , ’ only to find later that he had assaulted a policeman who had seen the youth committing an offence . |
| 6 | She put her name forward to the chairman of the local party only to find later that he had approached her father to get his consent then double-checked by asking her husband for his permission too . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead , the outcome of what seems to have been an uncomfortable occasion was merely that Pound and Lewis took that much longer to find out that they were natural allies . |
| 9 | It was interesting to find out that the work I was doing actually suited my 10K needs . ’ |
| 10 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 11 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 12 | Gazza should now be encouraged , not discouraged , and then disillusioned to find out that he is to be overlooked until next February . |
| 13 | He consulted with the crematorium to find out that his 15-stone frame would leave 4lbs of ashes . |
| 14 | ‘ It takes you two days and half of two nights to find out that you do n't know ? ’ |
| 15 | That gave us an opportunity to meet people from other parts of the diocese and actually to find out that we really are one family ! |
| 16 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 17 | Perhaps more significantly I was to find out that many Heads and teachers alike believed in the importance of creative experience for children , and so the way schools had developed was genuine , well founded and not a half-baked ill-digested educational " gimmick " . |
| 18 | To find out that she was a drug user was like finding out your twin was a murderer . |
| 19 | but you , you 've , you build up the strength in yourself and believe that your , your in vulnerable and then to find out that you are vulnerable , it really scary |
| 20 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |
| 21 | They had not taken the time to find out that it was actually the women who traditionally grew the rice for domestic consumption and then exchanged the surplus for other goods or services . |
| 22 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 23 | She was to find out that something would startle her like this and then quieten down to an apparent normality , only to find that she had really been shaken up into accepting an entirely unnatural situation and adapting it to the flow of her life . |
| 24 | It is no surprise , then , to find out that half of Lima 's population of six million live in informally constructed homes , most of them built on land that had been previously illegally invaded . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have talked with housing authorities throughout the country in the past few weeks and we have been interested to find out that many local authorities have land banks which they are not prepared to make available to housing associations . |
| 26 | If they are fortunate to have enough money , where are they to find out that that helpline exists and obtain the numbers ? |
| 27 | The last thing Melissa wanted at the moment was for Iris to find out that she was planning to probe into the circumstances of Angy 's death . |
| 28 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 29 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
| 30 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |