Example sentences of "[noun pl] they may find " in BNC.

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1 Chris always ends his visits by asking children not to disturb or try and touch snakes they may find in the wild .
2 Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals .
3 In such circumstances they may find it comparatively easy to become , or to be seen as , innovators .
4 After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled .
5 ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce .
6 In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ .
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