Example sentences of "[modal v] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galadriel 's song in the Common Speech ends with regret and a question , ‘ What ship would ever bear me back across so wide a Sea ? ’ , but her Quenya one on hope and an assertion , ‘ Maybe thou shalt find Valinor . |
| 2 | Maybe even thou shalt find it . ’ |
| 3 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 4 | The only real clue to spotting them is that every homestead has electricity and if you see the buildings , you must find the wires going to them before making an approach . |
| 5 | Once the basic structure fur a story ballet has been created , the choreographer must find ways of linking the beginning , climax and end so that the plot develops easily from one scene to the next . |
| 6 | That is the sort of talk which must find a response in a country in which acute labour shortage coexists with unconscionably high unemployment . |
| 7 | ALAN BOND , the troubled Australian entrepreneur , will pay the £27.5m he must find to remain part of the consortium behind British Satellite Broadcasting , the UK rival to Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Television . |
| 8 | You are really saying , ‘ We must find a way to do the impossible . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We really must find out when Karl is coming back , ’ Frau Nordern went on . |
| 10 | ‘ We must find out when Karl is coming back so we can book the room . |
| 11 | She must find it galling to be confused , as she often is , with Dian Fossey , the American disciple of Louis Leakey who studied gorillas in Rwanda ; her life and murder — probably by poachers — became the subject of a Hollywood film . |
| 12 | The FA , with Football Trust assistance , must find £100,000 to cover the cost of sending English police the World Cup . |
| 13 | Panama is a small place where everyone knows everyone else , and today I must find out which of my friends — US and Panamanian — are dead , wounded or bereaved . |
| 14 | If Labour looks like becoming credible , Conservatives must find any stick with which to mutilate the appearance of a smooth conversion . |
| 15 | Sarah is dead , and Abraham must find somewhere to bury her . |
| 16 | He must find a way . |
| 17 | Amid all the excitement and turbulence of the days after an election , newly appointed cabinet ministers must find a moment to learn how to kneel and kiss the hand of the Queen , in order that they may become members of the Queen 's Privy Council , together with opposition leaders , selected Commonwealth statesmen , churchmen like the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior civil servants . |
| 18 | A lot of the time it is difficult to know what horses have in mind , and they must find us equally frustrating to understand . |
| 19 | They must find the information for you to base your strategy on . |
| 20 | Just as it is important to find the right pulse for a piece of music , so you must find the right rhythm by which to live your life . |
| 21 | We must find more consistency , which was the key to our success in 1991 . ’ |
| 22 | Then they must find £20,000 or so for a cab . |
| 23 | It is a particularly relevant question for those of us who , each season , must find fitness to pursue our sports . |
| 24 | He refused professional tuition because he felt there must be a better way to play golf and he must find it for himself . |
| 25 | Fulham must find a new ground by the end of next season but there had been indications that they might be prepared to quit their Thames riverside site at the end of this season . |
| 26 | It is something of a boost for drama teachers to have someone as eminent in education as David Hargreaves taking interest in the value of drama , but if the subject is to develop we must find ways of demonstrating its worth more effectively to more such ‘ outsiders ’ . |
| 27 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 28 | Ground nesting birds such as willow warblers and chiff chaffs must find these areas ideal . |
| 29 | In Mexico , where 51 per cent of farm units are infra-subsistence , that is , not big enough to support a peasant family , the peasant must find other forms of income ( Stavenhagen 1974 ) . |
| 30 | The resulting poverty of the peasantry , who must find work in two different sectors to survive , limits their spending power and therefore discourages the purchase of consumer goods . |