Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [adv] find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calligraphers should also find many applications for these paints . |
| 2 | Chamden City Reserves could only find five players . |
| 3 | Sweating remained , child labour survived , and reformers could still find terrible poverty to expose , but improving conditions meant rising expectations , even though these were at first limited to a few . |
| 4 | And they won , because employers could not find substitute labour and because , with demand for commodities high , they lost heavily from any interruptions of production . |
| 5 | Someone who has been in residential care for a number of years may initially find independent living a frightening prospect . |
| 6 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 7 | Despite Gurney 's effort in Norfolk , in a number of other localities local abolitionists could not find enough support for two organisations and BFASS supporters argued against auxiliaries for Buxton 's society . |
| 8 | In deserving cases the courts would sometimes find implied permission . |
| 9 | He ignores the fact that tall girls would probably have feet of commensurate size : foot fetishists would not find size-seven brogues as attractive as court slippers several sizes smaller . |
| 10 | They may despise the lower strata whose members may well find such behaviour offensive . |
| 11 | Undergraduates will certainly find some interesting material , and researchers will also find enough examples to whet their appetite . |
| 12 | A pupil who is making a constant effort to use vision as fully as possible in school tasks may sometimes find this effort to be somewhat of an overload when his or her general level of well-being is low , for instance , when suffering from a cold or feeling particularly tired . |