Example sentences of "[be] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am to find a criticism , it is in the rather erratic organisation of the material . |
| 2 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 3 | The last time she had woken from sleep it had been to find herself looking into the blue eyes of a dangerous enemy ; now the enemy was a friend . |
| 4 | The real difficulty has always been to find an alternative to the Hegelian dialectic — difficult because strictly speaking it is impossible , insofar as the operation of the dialectic already includes its negation . |
| 5 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 6 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 7 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the question has come up , should we support benign scientific research if its purposes are to find information that will simply make the management of future whaling more efficient ? |
| 9 | Young people must discover faith for themselves and make it truly their own if they are to find a foundation for life . |
| 10 | There is no outside market for the output of Division A. We are to find a suitable transfer price . |
| 11 | ‘ How clever you are to find the perfect English rose of your dreams . |
| 12 | Ultimately , though , Live have a way to go if they are to find the rock niche they seek and ‘ Mental Jewelry ’ — despite possessing a great level of enthusiasm and commitment — is not representative enough of any one particular musical genre to fully captivate a specific audience . |
| 13 | The alternatives are to find protection , either from government ( as in Malaysia ) or from alliances , as in Latin America , where Ford combined with VW in 1986 to form Autolatina , the world 's tenth largest producer . |
| 14 | The larger the filing system , the less likely you are to find that nugget of hidden gold when you want it . |
| 15 | Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers . |
| 16 | If we are to find the answer to the problem of what gives stretches of language unity and meaning , we must look beyond the formal rules operating within sentences , and consider the people who use language , and the world in which it happens as well . |
| 17 | Therefore , if we are to find out what linguistic variation means to in-group members and how it functions in the community , much more prior observation and analysis is needed than would be required for better described varieties . |
| 18 | There was n't a car we recognized in the lane , we were as surprised to find them as you are to find us . ’ |
| 19 | If we are to find Mr. Stavanger we shall need your help . " |
| 20 | " I 'm as anxious to get my man identified as you are to find yours . |
| 21 | Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation . |
| 22 | The aims are to find out how the teachers are using the micros , what problems they have , what features of the technology are important and how can an LEA best support them . |
| 23 | We are to find the corrected sum of squares of three numbers using the formulae |
| 24 | If there is a coastal plain you 're to find it , and in that case we 'll meet near that southern coastal city — ’ Burun gestured , searching his memory for the name , ‘ — Ruysdal . ’ |
| 25 | I forgot what place you ring , but we 're find out , and you ring up to see what they 're , what the company 's like . |
| 26 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 27 | Once we 're found that favourite shape , there is nothing more frustrating than discovering that fashion has made it obsolete . |
| 28 | Alina said , ‘ What if we 're found ? ’ |
| 29 | Nobody 's really a missing person till they 're found dead , and then they 're not missing any more . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Before God , Collins , if we 're found out there 's hell to pay . |