Example sentences of "and [noun pl] find [pron] " 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 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 5 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 8 | Centres for the physically handicapped have traditionally taken the elderly , and youngsters finding themselves there after leaving school may feel their adult lives have ended rather than just begun . |
| 9 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 10 | So it is that the fetish of masculinity is fashioned in men-only milieus — we look to footballers , boxers , soldiers and miners to find our real men . |
| 11 | Children find it difficult to come to terms with the responsibilities involved , and parents find it difficult to relinquish them . |
| 12 | With the slump in building work , the market forces reversed and contractors found themselves in a fiercely competitive market with tenders very keenly priced . |
| 13 | People sleeping in shelters and cellars found them damp , dark and cold . |
| 14 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |
| 15 | Away from these pockets of excitement , business was relatively quiet and dealers found themselves frustrated in attempts to drive the FT-SE 100 index convincingly beyond the 2600 level . |
| 16 | But it took us weeks and weeks to find it . " |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Whether Crawford liked it or not , critics and audiences found it difficult to watch this new character without Frank Spencer and his other previous creations in the back of their minds . |
| 20 | Scarabs , beads , pendants , and ivories found their way to the Minoan temple sites . |
| 21 | In several towns rioting broke out , rioting for peace , and Nazis found themselves the victims of the kind of abuse and maltreatment they normally handed out to others . |
| 22 | ‘ Then I had chronic asthma and doctors found I was breathless from being so heavy . ’ |
| 23 | Education : Pupil pioneers enter the land of uncertainty : Five weeks into the new national curriculum , both teachers and pupils find they need further enlightenment . |
| 24 | Nevertheless writers and reporters found it difficult to graduate beyond sociological observation . |
| 25 | The IRA announced that they had killed him , and police found his body near Crossmaglen on Sept. 17 . |
| 26 | However , it is interesting to note that during World War I , when soldiers ’ wives received dependants ' allowances totalling a maximum of 17/6d in 1915 and 31/7d by 1918 for a wife and three children ( the average male labourer 's wage in 1918 was £2 ) , the heights and weights of schoolchildren and the infant mortality rate both showed improvement , which would suggest that wives and children found themselves rather better off . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Within four hours it was all over , and the following morning thousands of officers and men found themselves incarcerated in the Cittadella , the great sixteenth-century fortress built by the Farnese on the outskirts of the city . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The remaining ministers and elders found themselves being invited to address meetings all over the province to explain the imprisonment . |