Example sentences of "[modal v] find [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what you want is to peruse a publication like Big Women , you 'll find it in a discreet magazine rack in a corner of the Smoking Room . |
| 2 | With so much of interest to discover and such a wealth of magnificent coast and countryside to explore , within even an hour or two of home you could find yourself in a beautiful new world . |
| 3 | You could find yourself in the ludicrous situation where you have to take them out of the country for half-an-hour and take them back in again . |
| 4 | In the event of a hung parliament with the Tories as the largest party , the Unionists could find themselves in a powerful bargaining position . |
| 5 | However , employers could find themselves in a tight corner if they attempted to increase employee contributions or reduce benefits . |
| 6 | If we could find a heightened sense of beauty in the world of a prison camp , I thought , surely we could find it in the great free world of which we dreamed ? |
| 7 | The visitor to Rydal Mount , after bumping into a boulder with the following inscription : would find himself in a conventional household , where the master read morning and evening prayers to the assembled family and servants . |
| 8 | You might walk down sombre corridors and gaze upon dim , seldom-used halls , and you might run your hand across the scarred surfaces of the old walls , and then , without the least warning , you would find yourself in a sun-drenched quadrangle , or a courtyard where gentians grew or mountain ash flared . |
| 9 | Whenever she was not working in the house or on the vegetable patch , Endill would find her in the rickety old shed beside the wall he sometimes climbed to hunt for nests in the trees above . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Italy would find itself in an easy group . |
| 11 | If you try to return to your BBCBASIC(Z80) program , you will find yourself in the same situation as when you left it . |
| 12 | I 'm an optimist : I think there 's a fifty-fifty chance that we will find them in the next twenty years . |
| 13 | Peter Brown , chairman of the Thomas Coram foundation , said : ‘ Unless the human imperative of individual dereliction is addressed alongside the more visual investment in environmental dereliction , and however well we spend it this means more money , the country will find itself in a downward spiral of inner-city social decay that could well substitute Drug Alley for the Gin Lane of Coram 's and Hogarth 's day . ’ |
| 14 | Eventually the institution will find itself in the residual phase , in which the external constituency has ceased to exist and the biological growth is eroded by the loss to the movement of the uninterested children of the members . |
| 15 | The memorandum at the front of the Bill refers to ministerial orders in England and Wales , but schedule 4 shows that the whole of the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912 are to be repealed ; so Scotland will find itself in an invidious position . |
| 16 | Guinness is also brewed under licence in the same time-honoured way in a score of other locations , and so today you will find it in no fewer than 120 countries and new markets are being opened up regularly . |
| 17 | Perhaps we will find it in the highly-influential work of the Swiss thinker , Jean Piaget . |
| 18 | If Mr Major and his Chancellor are still not sure of the size of their task , they will find it in the latest TODAY/ICM Feelgood Index , which measures consumer confidence . |
| 19 | Instead , Murray will find herself in a 12-runner final , with only four adversaries likely to bar her path to gold — the Netherlands ' Elly Van Hulst , Romanian Margareta Keszeg , American Lynn Jennings and Russian Olga Kovpotina. — PA . |
| 20 | On top of that she will find herself in a different group for pensions and income tax . |
| 21 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 22 | Another who may find himself in the same situation will call upon all his inner resources in his efforts to deal with the problem . |
| 23 | ‘ Do as I say , Robyn , or you may find yourself in a whole load of trouble . ’ |
| 24 | Jules laughed , but then added more seriously , ‘ Nevertheless , you may find yourself in a difficult position before much longer , Alice . |
| 25 | The range is obviously very wide , and you may find yourself in a Greek tragedy , or even a modern ‘ exercise ’ play such as Games by James Saunders , where the student may add to the text by research material which can be incorporated in the project . |
| 26 | You may find yourself in an established language school with a well-designed language course and well-qualified teachers . |
| 27 | Students desperate to leave home may find themselves in a worse situation than the one they left . |
| 28 | So , when it returns for yet another pre-killed dish of food , it may find itself in a listless , frustrated mood . |