Example sentences of "[conj] we [modal v] find a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the Corniche we asked a traffic policeman in a white booth where we might find a hotel .
2 So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time .
3 I take the view that a collection of material which is consonant with our acquisitions policy in other respects , should be accepted on the assumption that we must find a way of preserving it and making it available .
4 It is essential that we should find a way to control our currency and to make it stable .
5 That we should find a mind of such devious ways . ’
6 It is perhaps in the surviving pre-Conquest books more than anywhere that we can find a clue to Lanfranc 's impatient determination to make a completely new start with the monastic life at Canterbury .
7 It is only when we begin to face an illness that we can find a cure .
8 ‘ Come round here with me , and we 'll find a physio to take care of things for you .
9 The Robemaker is n't here — I know he is n't here — and we shall find a way to get inside and Nuadu will be there and we shall bring him out .
10 There we are let's put see if we can find a space to put these .
11 Any two solids can therefore be glued together if we can find a liquid which will wet them both and then harden .
12 Let's see if we can find a pub . ’
13 Okay , let's see if we can find a parking spot , here , it 'll do nicely , or there or there , no there 's not one there
14 My , see if we can find a pen or something , that one might work , lean on the table cos it 'll be easier
15 Same as 8 , if we can find a recording !
16 ‘ Let's see if we can find a way . ’
17 If we can find a way of sending a parcel , we must do so .
18 No wh what I 'm saying is why ca n't we produce the letters off the box let's , can we find out exactly what it would , what , how er if we can find a way of getting this information downloaded onto a disk and then run it off on a straightforward standard letter basis .
19 If we can find a process that affects only one piece in a face , then the commutator of that process with that face gives a 3-cycle of a piece , or a pair of flips or a pair of corner twists , depending on whether the process moves , flips , or twists the piece .
20 In my humble opinion if we can find a formula round this table for satisfying them , and that 's , I mean that 's who we 're trying to satisfy .
21 There will be some toy elephants for sale — IF we can find a shop outlet within the Pavilions .
22 If we can find a mystery variable which completely captures the causal mechanism , the effect of unemployment experience on law-breaking will disappear when the mystery variable is brought under control .
23 Er if we could find a way of getting him there , I think it would be worthwhile .
24 And I think if , and I know it was agreed at group leaders meeting , that if we could find a way that Mr could be paid these erm , allowances , it would be important to allow him to pursue the work which is being done on that committee , and I would hope that we might all agree to the recommendation , and that is when he 's on the steering group , it 's attendance erm , full attendance and er travelling , but on the others , travelling and subsistence .
25 Of course , this alone did n't meet the cost of the hats or the debt owing , but she said if we could find a buyer for such as this it would , in a way , alleviate some of the debt … ’
26 Yeah , we 'll still getting , trying to get in touch with him , but we 'll find a driver one way or another .
27 I share the view of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East that it does not make sense to go back to the days of the red flag , but we must find a compromise between the passenger 's interest , which is the interest of the railways , and the pedestrian 's interest .
28 ‘ But look here , ’ said Floy , ‘ you wo n't have to do it , because we 'll find a way of taking you with us . ’
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