Example sentences of "may find [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Jean Ladbroke may find through their marriage that their feelings towards each other are connected with behaviour which resurrects childhood ‘ rejections ’ and ‘ damage ’ . |
| 2 | Local historians should be aware that the high number of deaths that they may find during certain years in their own register could fit the experience of the nation at large . |
| 3 | You may find at this point that you have to adjust your thoughts , if only by a little , to get this idea equation properly lined up . |
| 4 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps the simplest of these is the expression , ‘ It is the law that … ’ , which we may find on the lips not only of judges , but of ordinary men living under a legal system , when they identify a given rule of the system … |
| 6 | The new owner may find to their dismay , that they not only have a horse who is a perpetual puller , but one who also refuses to learn to travel more slowly . |
| 7 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 8 | I just want to exchange one or two ideas with them which they may find to be of benefit . |
| 9 | You may find after goi coming back from holiday there 's nothing wrong with you , so er |
| 10 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Such , Artemisia , we may find in you |
| 13 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 14 | The work of the Commission is , however , quite long term and we will not see quick decisions — those caught up in the process may find in time that the cost of conversion to unitary authorities is too prohibitive . |
| 15 | Chris always ends his visits by asking children not to disturb or try and touch snakes they may find in the wild . |
| 16 | So maybe it 's difficult to separate out the consequences of abuse per se from the consequences of erm lousy emotional environment , from the consequences of neglect and deprivation , from the consequences of a whole range of non-sexual abuses which you may find in the kinds of environment where child sex abuse is more likely . |