Example sentences of "[noun sg] may [adv] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Availability of non-thoracotomy ICD systems will make the prophylactic use of the ICD more attractive and the technique may ultimately find a wider application in the management of high-risk patients after myocardial infarction . |
| 2 | The algorithm may not find the ’ best ’ answer . |
| 3 | Some who enrol on a course may also find managing their work load and domestic arrangements traumatic and feel guilty , undermined by lack of support from partner , parents or children or emotionally blackmailed . |
| 4 | But even where the employer has patented the new product or process in the UK or elsewhere , the employee may still find himself barred from seeking compensation if the court orders revocation of the patent following proceedings brought by his employer against an alleged infringer . |
| 5 | Space and depth are easily confused ; an animal 20 yards down may appear to be only a few feet away , and in following it down to get a closer look , a diver may suddenly find himself well past prescribed diving depths . |
| 6 | However , polls can turn out to be unreliable — as the UK discovered in its own general election earlier this year — and Cook places 11 states and their 124 votes in the toss-up column ; so the president may yet find himself coming home from behind , as he said in his Labour Day speech , like his famous predecessor , Harry Truman . |
| 7 | Likewise , ‘ moral rectitude , social conformity , clean living , and a clean rent book on occasion seem to be essential for eligibility for at least a new house ’ ( Central Housing Advisory Committee , 1969 , p. 32 ) — qualifications that a woman left on her own with dependants on a low income or social security benefit may well find hard to fulfil . |
| 8 | For example , the general notion of a ‘ building ’ is clear , but a judge may not find it easy to decide whether a temporary wooden hut , or a telephone kiosk , or a wall , or a tent , is a ‘ building . ’ |
| 9 | And the Queen may now find that the monarchy faces the greatest threat to its survival since Edward VIII 's abdication over his affair with an American divorcee 56 years ago . |
| 10 | This Sri Lankan Buddhist priest confronts an image of the Buddha hoping to find , through contemplation , answers to the many mysteries humanity may never find the answer to . |
| 11 | Ordinary people who have been awarded ‘ less important ’ decorations like the British Empire Medal may well find it pinned on their chest not by the Queen but a lord lieutenant in the form of a retired colonel or minor baronet . |
| 12 | Similarly , an expert selling obsolete knowledge may soon find power is withdrawn . |
| 13 | Leaving aside for the moment differences in personal qualities and skills , which may or may not vary with the curriculum , it would seem that graduates who can offer both expertise and ability are in the strongest employment position , those who offer either one or the other may also find a job niche , but that those who offer neither are worst off . |
| 14 | In quantity as in quality his output may never find an equal . |
| 15 | But his video may not find as many overseas buyers as his rivals think . |
| 16 | Often someone who wishes to use the toilet may not find it within easy reach or be able to get out of their chair in time . |
| 17 | Where the only evidence available is that of one party against the other , or a wife giving evidence for her husband , or an employee giving evidence for the employer etc. the court may well find the case not proved . |
| 18 | The court may then find that , if unexplained , it is irrational . |
| 19 | Your lord may even find it diverting , as well as enlightening , for he must have been wondering what had been laid on his doorstone . ’ |
| 20 | A local authority may therefore find it preferable in the case of transient odours to serve a prohibition notice under s.1 of the Public Health ( Recurring Nuisances ) Act 1969 . |
| 21 | At the end of that time the conscientious manager may well find it difficult to credit the evidence . |
| 22 | The DIY horse owner may well find it difficult to get good facilities and will have to use more concentrates and/or good quality hay to compensate . |
| 23 | Your Lordship may well find it was reasonable for the police to act on this information . |
| 24 | The potential reader of a monograph on a minor artist may not find a book easily , but there are plenty of publications on Leonardo , Rembrandt or Picasso . |
| 25 | This letter may never find you . |
| 26 | Those who accept the general orientation of modern science may well find considerable difficulty in coming to grips with this main point . |
| 27 | The counsellor may often find that this period also coincides with the onset of a depressed or confused state of mind , suggesting that it is the problems and difficulties which occurred around this time that require counselling attention . |
| 28 | The caffeine addict or compulsive cigarette smoker may initially find it difficult to identify with someone addicted to Valium or Heroin but the stigma of addictive disease is inappropriate and the commonality of all addictions is considerable . |
| 29 | Rumour and gossip will spread and the employer may well find key staff and others so unsettled that they look for and find other jobs . |
| 30 | A group of women talking about motherhood may either find some way of adjusting their differing statements so that they are all right , or else become locked in bitter disagreement , which is no less vitriolic even if it is not openly expressed . |