Example sentences of "[modal v] find their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone . |
| 2 | Trammelled as I am by ‘ the service ’ , I can only plead guilty to what it is impossible to amend without commencing de novo — for everything and everybody must find their level on board of a king 's ship . |
| 3 | From now on the people of Marinus must find their own answers . |
| 4 | Obviously the night-flying insects that they prey on must find their way about somehow . |
| 5 | If you understand how such models work using proportions , you should find their use with other measures reasonably straightforward . |
| 6 | Teachers might find their loyalties divided : a wedge driven between what might be seen as opposing interests — for example supply cover for staff or more capitation for pupils . |
| 7 | Classroom teachers might find their entitlement to leave of absence curtailed . |
| 8 | At night , perhaps , a few peasants might find their way here , congregating for worship like nocturnal pilgrims . |
| 9 | A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal . |
| 10 | Private firms , by contrast , might find their existing workforce too small to pay for its existing pensioners or it might even go bankrupt . |
| 11 | And that would be dreadful for you , Rincewind , because in the weeks that remained before the Empire 's huge mercenary fleet arrived certain of my servants would occupy themselves about your person in the hope that the avenging captains , on their arrival , might find their anger tempered by the sight of your still-living body . |
| 12 | All naturalise perfectly well , though if you do n't like accidentally digging up bulbs , and are really keen about weeding , you might find their presence a nuisance . |
| 13 | Member companies use the distinctive HAE arrow reproduced on this page , and you 'll find their telephone number listed in Yellow Pages ( or contact the number at the end of this feature for more details ) . |
| 14 | And so , it goes beyond the actual molecular stage if you can have this compound in crystallised form , as you can most though you might have to reduce the temperature or whatever , but then all is gone gone crystalline eventually you 'll find their crystals are also mirror images and what he actually did , he painstakingly picked out crystals which were of one particular shape as opposed to the other , he actually separated all the crystals physically by using tweezers and then found that they ha , you know , the two had a different affect on plane polarised light . |
| 15 | Strikers could find their pension rights withdrawn . |
| 16 | Should a victim die , they could find their good samaritan act has cost them a lot more than the penny which was paid to the Jericho-Jerusalem Motel . |
| 17 | Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond . |
| 18 | If Pittsburgh do go all the way , they could find their old rivals the Dallas Cowboys waiting for them . |
| 19 | Inexperienced as I was in counselling , I nevertheless felt it essential that the school should offer itself as a support agency through which parents could find their way into the numerous services provided by the state , by the local authority and by voluntary organisations . |
| 20 | Another suggestion is that they were put there by shepherds so that they could find their way off the fell in bad weather , the idea being that by the number of cairns the shepherds would be able to tell where they were and by the pattern they could know which direction to follow . |
| 21 | Under the guidance of Loudon , Disraeli 's reformist landowners and manufacturers could find their way from fiction into fact , as Jane Loudon suggests by this incident , recounted in her biographical note upon her husband : |
| 22 | Many kinds of dispute arising out of industrial relations could find their way to the NIRC which , because of its status as a superior court of record and the powers given it by statute , was able to order the payment of fines and , if that or any other of its orders was disregarded , could imprison for contempt . |
| 23 | And er you know , your words could find their way into one of Longman 's dictionaries . |
| 24 | Compass orientation , we have seen , can account for the seasonal movements of birds and butterflies , which could find their way by just flying in a particular direction . |
| 25 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 26 | Although there is little firm evidence on the safety implications of genetic modification , the EDF is concerned that without stringent safety checks , unsafe foods could find their way onto the market . |
| 27 | I understand sir that at the last erm election European matters only thirty one percent of the population could find their ways to voting stations . |
| 28 | His meeting with Peters also seems to have sparked off the long voyaging section of ‘ Death by Water ’ in the Waste Land manuscripts , which would be united with the fate of the ancient Phoenician sailor , Phlebas , and details of which would find their way into ‘ Marina ’ and ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ . |
| 29 | These would find their way , with other wastes , into a tailings pond — in every sense a depression in the landscape . |
| 30 | If these two ballets were evidence of MacMillan 's gift for using the classical technique in a fresh and personal way , La Hermanas ( based on Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba ) , which came between , showed those themes of dark sexuality which would find their full development in Mayerling . |