Example sentences of "we [vb mod] find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Forget about the bullets , we may find them in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | As the man said , we may find something useful . |
| 3 | We may find something wrong with her , items we need for overwintering in the ice . |
| 4 | We may find something there which could explain Irvine 's death and Selkirk 's death-bearing verses . ’ |
| 5 | If we do ignore them , we may find we have thrown the baby out with the bath water . |
| 6 | But if Gorbachev fails to meet the considerable expectations he has aroused , we may find there is plenty of rebound in the conservative cause . |
| 7 | Whichever type of man we think of , we may find it difficult to say whether by ‘ property ’ we mean the things themselves or the aggregate of rights which are exercised over them . |
| 8 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 9 | In practice we may find it difficult to separate the hardware of the data manipulation unit from that of the control unit . |
| 10 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 11 | But those of us who deal with bureaucratic institutions simply as part of normal life , while we may find it frustrating , even demeaning , can at least retreat into the private institutions of our family where , if we are lucky , we will find acceptance , support and warmth . |
| 12 | Modern man must remember that in earlier times people washed less frequently and that , however chauvinistic we may find it today , women were usually available to fetch water whenever it was needed , even over a distance of several miles . |
| 13 | course and other staff lecture programmes , we may find it cost-effective to purchase the output hardware some time after 1996 . |
| 14 | If we wish to study Lake Tahoe from the point of view of hydrology , fauna and water quality we may find it necessary to extract from maps of these features the polygonal area defining the extent of the lake . |
| 15 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 16 | We may find ourselves disagreeing with other people on the basis of sampling ; one man may claim that a shirt he bought from a well-known manufacturer wore out in no time at all , whereas his friend says he always buys this make because they wear so well . |
| 17 | But faced suddenly with being alone through bereavement or divorce , or gradually through the natural lessening of family ties and dependency , we may find ourselves feeling very differently , remembering with nostalgia the days when we were so busy , needed and surrounded by others . |
| 18 | In the household , we may find ourselves acting as ‘ memory ’ to the whole family , both in the prosaic sense of keeping lists of jobs and obligations in mind , and also in the sense of building up an extended record of family life with photos , souvenirs and diaries . |
| 19 | Reactions can therefore be highly subjective and we may find ourselves disagreeing strongly with what the artist is saying . |
| 20 | To the extent that these may appear antithetical to modernism , not only in practice but also in theory , then we may find ourselves running up against the limits of our modernist frameworks of understanding . |
| 21 | In some cases subsidence damage will have come to light when a property is being sold and we may find ourselves under pressure to resolve the claim quickly to allow the sale to proceed . |
| 22 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 23 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , declared : " If we do not act immediately and forcefully on both the political and humanitarian fronts , we may find ourselves stranded with an open-ended relief programme and a massive permanent refugee problem in the heart of Europe … |
| 24 | But if we then turn to the ego — and , still more , the superego — and try to understand the sequence of development there we may find ourselves in the predicament of a person who tried to investigate the musical education of a child who had started learning the piano with grade 2 , then gone on to grade 3 , and finally ended with grade 1 ! |
| 25 | Yes , I believe we may find ourselves forced to approach the whole question of happiness , which philosophers have gone round and about for so long . |
| 26 | ‘ I say we should find something sharp and stick it into it , ’ said a nome . |
| 27 | ‘ Also , I 'll be looking for the slag personally , so I reckon between us we should find him . |
| 28 | How clever he is to know where we should find him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I said they would — I said we should find our own refuge ! ’ |
| 30 | And yet it was inevitable , given our subject matter , that we should find ourselves caught in the inherent conflict between fact and faith . |