Example sentences of "they may find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument for preserving Shakespeare 's laundry bills is that , eventually , they may find their Sherlock Holmes . |
| 2 | ‘ When those concerned turn their attention to this problem , they may find they have to make a distinction between litigation in which there is a direct public interest in the result and that in which the public interest is limited to ensuring that an adequate system of justice is available . |
| 3 | They 'll be underground all day without stopping to eat and they may find nothing at all . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | But they may find themselves unprepared for the pain and the sense of loss that the achieving of that goal may bring in its wake . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is these few people who are probably very dependent on public transport , and , if it becomes too expensive or infrequent , they may find themselves unable to live in the rural community . |
| 8 | First-time buyers — especially in the South-east — frequently borrow to the very limit of their capacity to repay , and if there is a change for the worse in their circumstances , or if interest rates rise steeply , then they may find themselves in great difficulty . |
| 9 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 10 | And on the other side , subordinate groups have no other recourse than armed revolt if they are deprived of other means of exercising political rights ; or they may find themselves in a situation where their formal rights can only be made effective in practice by the use or threat of violence . |
| 11 | Since migrants and alien communities obliged to leave en masse usually return to their countries of origin , they are not usually technically refugees ; nevertheless they may find themselves in refugee-like situations . |
| 12 | They may find someone to talk to , but rarely someone with whom they can actually cry although Damon Runyan claimed that the tears shed on Broadway by ‘ guys in love ’ , would produce enough salt water to start an opposition to the Atlantic and the Pacific . |
| 13 | If others can see them as an engine driving innovation around the world , rather than a sump draining it off , they may find there is much to gain . |
| 14 | They may find it hard to adapt or compromise , so that others find them too rigid . |
| 15 | But they may find it difficult , they must feel like they 've lost their dignity , the fact that we 're washing them . |
| 16 | The resident 's general condition becomes weaker and they may find it difficult to breathe . |
| 17 | If they have been used to rushing home from work or watching the clock during any stolen time with friends , they may find it hard to adapt to the fact that there is no longer any need to hurry back . |
| 18 | There are also some people who ‘ specialize ’ in babies and young children and they may find it less easy to empathize with teenagers and handle them wisely . |
| 19 | Children who behave well at school but badly at home may be responding to family tensions , or they may find it easier to accept discipline in the more formal atmosphere of a school . |
| 20 | Not a very supportive viewpoint ; but worse was to come , for having defined maintenance , and little else , as the province of the building surveyor , the Committee went on to observe that their ‘ apparent failure ’ caused the Committee ‘ lingering concern for their lack of identity … ’ and that ‘ until they can establish what their discipline is ( as opposed to the rather disparate activities with which they are associated ) they may find it difficult to develop their full potential . ’ |
| 21 | Nissel and Bonnerjea acutely observe that all this may lead to ‘ a lack of perspective on the situation ’ so that they may find it difficult to accept appropriate help or place limits on their involvement . |
| 22 | Conversely they may find it difficult to adapt to poor lighting conditions , and they may be nervous when coming indoors after being in brighter light outside . |
| 23 | They may find it difficult to concentrate . |
| 24 | However , they may find it difficult to distinguish between what they feel and what they ought to feel . |
| 25 | The dual nature of disciplines , as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people , means that the difficulties of interdisciplinary work often take a concrete rather than abstract form ( Squires 1975 ; Levin and Lind 1985 ) Even when academics espouse ‘ construct ’ views of knowledge , they may find it difficult , in indefinable as well as definable ways , to work together in cross-disciplinary teams . |
| 26 | In such circumstances they may find it comparatively easy to become , or to be seen as , innovators . |
| 27 | Many private practises wo n't treat these groups and they may find it hard to get a local dentist in future . |