Example sentences of "find to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald was about the nearest he was likely to find to a Murderer 's Doctor . |
| 2 | Furthermore , Mary is scarcely a woman whom women today might be expected to find to be a symbol who represents them . |
| 3 | This could be interpreted in different ways , as later patriots were to find to their cost . |
| 4 | But a stray recollection of a golliwog Maurice had given her for her fifth birthday undid the effect in an instant and she reached Swans ' Meadow with her eyes red and face blotchy from tears , only to find to her surprise that Ursula was in a similar condition . |
| 5 | Was he perhaps , an applicant for the Coniston lease earlier , only to find to his mortification that Roe had effected a fait accompli ? |
| 6 | By 1979 our fleet of cutters had grown to nine vessels and with the old " V " boats , Venturous , Valiant and Vigilant supported by our new dashing Trackers , Alert , Active , Champion , Challenge , Swift and Safeguard we had a force to be reckoned with as at last the big drug smuggling syndicates began to find to their cost . |
| 7 | Mr Major fidgeted , and took an ever-so sneaky glance at his watch at 4:00pm to find to his dismay that only 30 minutes of the one hour , 53 minute-long drone had passed . |
| 8 | yes alright well let's leave that one and let's see and I stand corrected , but my point remains the same if er , erm , er my duty under article five is not to find to the anti competition laws is it ? |
| 9 | When I got there , I found to no great surprise that very little had survived in any reasonable condition . |
| 10 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 11 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 12 | He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation . |
| 13 | Yet his closest school-friend , that previous summer term , he found to be an agnostic . |
| 14 | When Chamberlain returned from his post-war African tour to a hero 's welcome in March 1903 , he found to his hand a request from the Dominions themselves which , though it had nothing to do with Imperial unity , and indeed was rather symptomatic of growing independence , he seized upon and elevated into the first step towards ‘ consolidation of the Empire ’ . |
| 15 | Christopher Gray , one of the small number of English members of the SI , is the third commentator I found to be not entirely sympathetic . |
| 16 | Gray 's comments evoke a kind of mystical disenchantment with the movement which he found to be too focused on an intellectual critique of society . |
| 17 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 18 | It was not enough to be the best in the world at your chosen sport , as Joe Davis found to his cost . |
| 19 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 20 | Eleven men found to be responsible . |
| 21 | THE Government was accused yesterday of concocting a fudged list to gloss over the real dangers of microwave ovens found to be faulty in its own tests . |
| 22 | As Mr Michael Dukakis found to his cost in 1988 , voters equate opposition to the death penalty with being soft on crime , support for it with being tough . |
| 23 | Government spokesmen say Chiang Mai is untypical : prostitutes in Bangkok found to be infected are often sent home to the north , where they continue to practise the only trade they know . |
| 24 | One reason for this may be the doctrine of corporate liability in English criminal law ( discussed in Chapter 4.3 , and found to be unsatisfactory ) ; in particular , it may be difficult to establish the fault necessary for manslaughter , although easier to secure a conviction under legislation on railways or merchant shipping . |
| 25 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 26 | She also added , without being asked , that Annunciata was not , in Pen 's opinion , found to be a substitute for his Lily and that the maid had fallen ill with fever soon after Wilson left and had been useless to anyone . |
| 27 | They were not , however , impressed by what they found to be the ‘ superfluous materialism ’ of the Federal Republic which they said was ‘ rather stupid ’ . |
| 28 | WHEN my NHS three-tooth bridge had to be replaced , I found to my horror that what had cost £150 three years ago would now set me back some £650 if supplied privately . |
| 29 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 30 | After conceding a 1–1 draw in the Principality , Arsene Wenger 's side is relying on the foreign attacking trio of Rui Barros , George Weah and Youssouf Fofana to break down the Feyenoord defence who , as Tottenham found to their cost , have conceded only one goal in seven matches . |