Example sentences of "and [noun pl] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Songs and sketches find her playing anything from a charity ball organiser to a TV agony aunt ( Irish , like Dillie herself ) . |
| 2 | Different sections or departments may seek authority over the same territory of operations , and superiors find it difficult to delegate sufficient authority to satisfy subordinates ; |
| 3 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 4 | The main premise is that the corporatist strategies developed almost universally by authoritarian regimes in order to organize and control civil society , serve simultaneously to create the political context for popular responses ; and special attention will therefore be paid to the ways in which unions , community groups and parties find the political space to organize within the institutions of these regimes . |
| 5 | Some users and classifiers find it beneficial to have a notation which is sufficiently flexible to permit a variety of citation orders to be adopted as appropriate to the document and the user 's perspective . |
| 6 | You might think they would all be terrified of having their family and acquaintances find out . |
| 7 | Children find it difficult to come to terms with the responsibilities involved , and parents find it difficult to relinquish them . |
| 8 | But scientists are impressed by the way Mr Kingdon has identified the sequence of evolutionary accidents that led to Africa 's strange mosaic of rich ecosystems ; and conservationists find in it a way to explain rarity and extinction . |
| 9 | In the United States the Age Discrimination Act 1967 aims to ‘ promote the employment of older persons based on their ability rather than their age , to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment , and to help employees and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age in employment . ’ |
| 10 | Both educationalists and industrialists find these very stimulating . |
| 11 | And some carers and dependents find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal — the old person of course not wanting to relinquish her dominant role and the carer finding it difficult to cope with becoming the decision maker . ’ |
| 12 | Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate . |
| 13 | For this reason , many individuals and firms find a cheque account with a clearing bank to be indispensable , even if , for savings purposes , they prefer to hold accounts with other institutions like building societies . |
| 14 | Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself . |
| 15 | However , just as engineers and physicists find practical use for some of the results of classical elasticity theory ( usually in semi-empirical forms ) so rheologists , polymer scientists and material scientists in general wish to find applicable parts of continuum theory , particularly when the simpler linear theories we have discussed earlier in the chapter fail . |
| 16 | This time , firms and households find that their actual money balances are below their desired money balances . |
| 17 | A village landlord has teamed up with two jobfinding organisations to help his customers and neighbours find work . |
| 18 | Linguists and prescriptivists find this kind of thing irritating ( Goddess help anyone who tries to start a herstory course at Harvard ! ) . |
| 19 | Students respond very positively to placements in industry , and teachers find that students ' confidence , self presentation and maturity are all enhanced by the experience . |
| 20 | Education : Pupil pioneers enter the land of uncertainty : Five weeks into the new national curriculum , both teachers and pupils find they need further enlightenment . |
| 21 | But plenty are , and both parents and children find great strength and satisfaction from the relationship . |
| 22 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 23 | If it is to be held that both women and men find salvation in Christ , then it must be simply ‘ humanity ’ which is of significance as having been taken on . |
| 24 | One detects a certain apathy towards the whole business of synodical government , and parishes find it difficult to fill the vacancies allotted to them on the Deanery Synods . |
| 25 | But , the odd unscripted upset aside , the chairmen and chairwomen find it hard to keep up with torrential voting in favour of the leadership line . |
| 26 | Some people are natural bargainers and others find the whole process rather tedious . |
| 27 | Yet some people seem to learn to live with imperfection and others find it an impenetrable barrier . |
| 28 | However , I and others find it difficult to accept that , but I repeat that I have no hard evidence to substantiate my claim . |
| 29 | And others find romance . |
| 30 | But it is uncommon for the baby to arrive on that date , and women find it disappointing and sometimes worrying if delivery does not occur soon after this time . |