Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [adv] find " in BNC.

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1 Wrangham comments : ‘ We may thus find the first evidence that so-called abnormal sexual behaviour may have a biological function ’ ; but he points out that a number of issues need to be resolved .
2 We may surely find her a place .
3 find their healing rather than bringing the remedy to the person , and we may again find healing in the landscape by tending and restoring old clumps .
4 We may yet find ourselves fighting a war on three fronts , and all one war . ’
5 We may also find that more and more top management jobs in big companies are filled by hiring people away from smaller companies .
6 Diane , I believe that if I place this disc onto the rotating turntable of a hi-fi system — not forgetting to place the stylus onto the groove , of course — then we may just find the break we 're looking for …
7 Diane , I believe that if I place this disc onto the rotating turntable of a hi-fi system — not forgetting to place the stylus onto the groove , of course — then we may just find the break we 're looking for …
8 We may well find that what we are saying comes to others as God 's word with prophetic power , as it has already so come to us .
9 I think we may well find your daughter now . ’
10 We may well find it significant that there is no evidence during this period of any attempt on his part to acquaint himself with Wagner 's own voluminous theoretical prose .
11 If the forms of the two potential functions are similar too , we may well find that the ground-state level for the ion lies almost exactly over that for the molecule in the energy diagram ( Fig. 6.13 ) .
12 We may still find our attention distracted by thoughts of home , family or whatever .
13 Of course , much music has been composed using only scale and chord patterns , and if they have rhythmic distinction we may still find them useful .
14 Evil men can be fully qualified and have resources at their command , so we may still find that we have evil to contend with .
15 We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think .
16 Thus the gist of Spinoza 's argument , for example , is that whereas in ordinary circumstances we may indeed find it useful and necessary to distinguish between essential and accidental properties , metaphysically such a distinction can not be upheld .
17 We should scarcely find the style of Henry James worth studying unless we assumed it could tell us something about James as a literary artist .
18 If we can treat any piece of conversational data as a process in which two or more participants speak within the topic framework , we should also find in their contributions elements which characterise their own personal ‘ speaker 's topics ’ .
19 But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state .
20 And we should then find an answer that is valid from his point of view , rather than an answer that simply reflects our point of view' ( 1982 , p.35 ) .
21 We must both find a way through this , and I demand that we in this country support the Commission in its negotiations , demanding that the United States come further towards us , so that together we can find a solution for the whole world , instead of throwing batons at each other across the Atlantic .
22 For direct mail to be carried out cost effectively we must accurately find out who the customers are , what motivates them to buy , and how can we best reach them — in short , planning .
23 We 'll soon find out , ’ she said briskly .
24 We 'll soon find out , ’ I said .
25 ‘ Do n't you worry , we 'll soon find out what it is . ’
26 Well we 'll soon find out wo n't we ?
27 So , we 'll soon find out before .
28 We 'll probably find out in due course but it has been a disappointment .
29 Well we 'll probably find out now let's er go straight over to Filbert Street where we can join our commentators Alan Parry and Ron Atkinson .
30 We 'll probably find out more about him by speaking to his prospective models .
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