Example sentences of "[subord] we [modal v] find " 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 | But I 've just realised where we might find some of the answers we 're looking for . ’ |
| 3 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |
| 4 | That is , we have two rather different kinds of plurality to deal with : Fig4.4 ( A ) PLURALITY OF ( B ) PLURALITY OF CODING LEVELS FUNCTIONS Textual Now , there is no one-to-one correspondence between levels and functions ( although we shall find , in Chapters 6 and 7 , some strong associations between them ) . |
| 5 | Although we may find a particularly explicit conceptualization of the autonomous self in certain contemporary societies , this may be only an aspect of the more general separation and autonomy of concepts evident in modernist theory . |
| 6 | By comparing objects in museums with those mentioned in inventories or seen in old drawings and photographs , we expect to get a fuller picture of domestic life in Scotland than we can find in any one source alone . |
| 7 | ‘ We need some people to be made to testify under oath so we can find out what went wrong with that investigation , ’ said Mr Laframboise , stressing that , at this point , it does not matter that most of the physical evidence has been destroyed . |
| 8 | I want the case re-opened , so we can find out who did . ’ |
| 9 | In desperation I said to Noel Buttigieg-Scicluna , Secretary of the Maltese Nationalist Party , ‘ Noel , please go up and make a speech until we can find Eddie . ’ |
| 10 | An RSPCA spokeswoman said the cats , Kim and Willow , were in a cattery ‘ until we can find them a good home . |
| 11 | And then if we would find totally unacceptable we certainly would n't be prepared to do that |
| 12 | If we may find this incongruous , that is only because we live in an age of collapsed hierarchies in which painters and sculptors are liable to be more highly regarded than their patrons or even their sitters . |
| 13 | At last big Angus said , ‘ Very well — let us go and see the old place — if we can find it . ’ |
| 14 | Often we can secure the release of refugees from detention if we can find them somewhere to live . |
| 15 | ‘ It would solve all our problems if we can find him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There 's always a gypsy king and queen somewhere , ’ I said , ‘ if we can find them . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Could be with your family papers if we can find them , ’ I went on . |
| 18 | ‘ If we can find out how the insects switch this gene on and off then we may be able to prevent resistance by switching it off permanently , ’ said Dr Hemingway , at a Science and Engineering Research Conference in King 's College , London . |
| 19 | Same as 8 , if we can find a recording ! |
| 20 | Let's see if we can find the Colombi Hotel . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's just pop upstairs and see if we can find something more suitable . ’ |
| 24 | Therefore , the BFS is efficient if we can find a non-negative solution of for all j . |
| 25 | We can offer a partial answer to this question by observing that , if we can find w k > O satisfying and for j = 2 and 3 , then the BFS of P4/T1 is an alternative optimal solution of LP ( w 1 , w 2 , w 3 ) and another optimal ( efficient ) solution can be found by pivoting in column 1 ( x 1 -column ) . |
| 26 | Any two solids can therefore be glued together if we can find a liquid which will wet them both and then harden . |
| 27 | ‘ Let's see if we can find a way . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But if we can find the funds in future we would want to reinstate the service . ’ |
| 29 | Yet for ten novels of adventure using this formulaic , superficial method there will be one , if we can find it , which by stretching the convention of improbable excitement by an acceptance of human nature both as it is and as it can be , offers not an escape but an enlargement of life through imagination . |
| 30 | Secondly the plan to place second year trainees with employers is fine if we can find employers to do deals with . |