Example sentences of "we may find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may find things that are best kept locked away . " |
| 2 | We thus have the typical " skip " instruction ; If the condition is true skip the next instruction ; if it is false execute the next instruction On a single-address computer ( such as the DEC PDP- 10 ) we may find conditional jumps on a test of the contents of an accumulator , or on a comparison of two accumulators , but conditional skips on a test of the contents of a store location , or on a comparison of an accumulator with a store location . |
| 3 | We may find works on Hinduism talking of a ‘ High God ’ and ‘ lesser gods ’ , of ‘ demigods ’ and ‘ local divinities ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 5 | At this distance , we may find Balboa 's antics in the surf laughably pretentious ; but at the time the sighting of the Mar del Sur , as he felt compelled to christen the new sea , was a formidable discovery indeed : the implications of its swift and secure passage into the hands of Spain were profound in the extreme . |
| 6 | One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word . |
| 7 | There are many ways in which , in retrospect , we may find fault with the procedures adopted in Nigeria ; lengthy time gaps between conferences and in the production of the reports ; shortcomings in follow up and publicity ( largely due to inadequate funding and staffing of the NERC ) ; failures in articulation of content and approach between subject areas ; an overloading of committees with university academics . |