Example sentences of "[modal v] find themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great silence filled the house , the servants were asleep , not knowing that tomorrow they must find themselves other positions . |
| 2 | Many observers supposed that the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 would force the Junkers to embark on a programme of liberalisation and reform lest they should find themselves facing a similar threat . |
| 3 | But such a blindness follows from the belief that women have a ‘ place ’ in God 's scheme ; one which is natural , or God 's will for them , and in which therefore they should find themselves fulfilled . |
| 4 | Certain people , perhaps because they were friendly with one doctor but held a higher opinion of the professional ability of the other , took to carrying cards in their pockets which gave the relevant instructions in case they should find themselves too far gone to claim the doctor they wanted . |
| 5 | In return , the Bank has guaranteed always to provide funds to the houses if , either as a result of these purchases or as a result of the rest of the monetary sector demanding repayment , the houses should find themselves short . |
| 6 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 7 | Even married women , before the enactment of the Married Women 's Property Act of 1882 , might find themselves trapped in dependence upon their husbands in a loveless marriage . |
| 8 | Changing the law on mistake in rape could help to change these social attitudes , even though for some time to come defendants might find themselves charged with rape because of such ingrained attitudes towards women . |
| 9 | Miss Hawarth likewise procured several paying guests , moving Wilson to declare she could not imagine why any lady would wish to lodge in her poorly decorated and furnished house when they might find themselves a place a good deal more attractive and comfortable . |
| 10 | Of course it was only the Captains and the big-business men who might find themselves coming down Spring Street who would pay six shillings and six pence a pound for a smoking mixture ; other well-established tobacconists in the city had the custom of the gentry . |
| 11 | People facing retirement might find themselves responsible for the care of others for a number of different reasons . |
| 12 | Their concern was that the lenders might find themselves debtors . |
| 13 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 14 | Sue Hastings , of the Trade Union Research Unit at Ruskin College in Oxford , recently warned delegates at an RCN stewards ' conference that clinical nurses — especially those in high-tech areas and with teaching roles — would lose out through job evaluation , She argues that existing job evaluation schemes are too often management-biased , with the danger that clinical specialists who did well out of clinical grading might find themselves downgraded . |
| 15 | Mild-mannered visitors to the West Cliff on Friday might find themselves behaving like Madonna or Elvis after Adam Night has cast his spell . |
| 16 | If such a proposal was adopted by the GMC Kay and his committee might find themselves in the dock . |
| 17 | However , even the inland counties might find themselves paying as much in local military taxes as they did for the subsidy ; and coastal shires might well pay more . |
| 18 | Those single people claiming only the single person 's allowance , some low-income families with children and part of the pensioner population might find themselves worse off . |
| 19 | Figure A illustrates the various legal relationships in which professional caterers might find themselves . |
| 20 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |
| 21 | They might find themselves having to issue a succession of fixed-term contracts to each worker , and having to take steps to include in these contracts provisions for their premature termination . |
| 22 | Thus , ‘ responsible managers ’ seeking value for money under the FMI might find themselves confronting policy issues . |
| 23 | Some batsmen , included in a team because of their bowling , might find themselves crowded by close slips . |
| 24 | Sunderland have lost their last five League matches , and there is a growing danger that the FA Cup finalists might find themselves in deep relegation trouble if they do no concentrate on the matter in hand Second Division survival . |
| 25 | They 'll find themselves chartered to carry pig-iron and cheap tin trays , just like everybody else ; and by that time they 'll be down in the South Seas loading rainbows and moonbeams . |
| 26 | With Spain pushing hard for one of the first six seeded places , England could find themselves unseeded and playing in Sicily too , as the side ranked No.2 in a Group F headed by Belgium . |
| 27 | A taxpayer in Lambeth whose house was valued at £121,000 , for instance , would save £111 if it were valued instead at £119,000 ; so councils could find themselves swamped with appeals . |
| 28 | In the event of a hung parliament with the Tories as the largest party , the Unionists could find themselves in a powerful bargaining position . |
| 29 | Sometimes an older child made a deliberate choice to do so , having already got to know them well , but others could find themselves suddenly in a new home with no say at all . |
| 30 | Although this may be obscured by the second phase of London Bridge City , if the Simpson scheme is constructed the directors of Marketplace could find themselves with the unlikely view of a replica of the Piazza San Marco in Venice . |