Example sentences of "finds [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think she finds me much use . |
| 2 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 3 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 4 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 5 | The play , therefore , interrogates heavenly power as much as hellish power and finds them both tyrannical — clearly upsetting any recourse to the older morality tradition as a satisfactory explanation for Faustus 's demise . |
| 6 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 7 | Hope this note finds you all well . |
| 8 | If you want to dig the dirt your best hope is old Gooseneck , especially if he finds you attractive . |
| 9 | The older , more conservative generation of Japanese businessmen finds him brash . |
| 10 | In retrospect he finds it extraordinary that , with all the drinking he did , Philby was able to maintain his double life . |
| 11 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 12 | The contrast between nature and architecture here was too much indeed for the ungenerous Hippolyte Taine , who came here on his Journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century and wrote that ‘ One finds it grotesque that a bit of hot water should have brought cuisine and civilization into these declivities . ’ |
| 13 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 14 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 15 | Because of his tense disposition , Trish finds it necessary to work Will most days . |
| 16 | He works at weekends as a hospital porter , and finds it necessary to take a week off to compete in a national or international event . |
| 17 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 18 | This one-time capital of Greece finds it necessary , in 1993 , to send the rubbish its people throw away , 10,000 tonnes a year of it , by ship to the mainland , to be disposed of there . |
| 19 | We are confirmed in our impression that line A is not perspicuous by the fact that a modern version like NIV finds it necessary to offer an expanded rendering : " Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires " ( my italics ) . |
| 20 | Also , because of the licensing system , which restricts access to the medium to a quite small number of programme contractors , the government in the UK finds it necessary , from time to time , to mount a new competition for the existing licenses . |
| 21 | Every time the animal steps down it received a mild electric shock ( yet another of the less than pleasant learning tasks which experimental psychology finds it necessary to employ ) . |
| 22 | Only if the family member finds it helpful . |
| 23 | What was even more interesting was when he went on to say that he ‘ finds it unacceptable that member states continue to negotiate fifth freedom rights with third countries ( the ability to uplift and carry passengers onward to a third country ) as these should be considered Community assets ’ . |
| 24 | Failure to talk about sexual needs may mean that the individual does not consider it to be a problem , or that he or she finds it embarrassing to discuss such matters . |
| 25 | It is necessary for the doctor and nurses to tactfully discuss this with Mr Reynolds although he finds it embarrassing ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 26 | He finds it sad that the USM and fund markets have not developed in the way that they were expected to at the outset . |
| 27 | He finds it awkward , relying on touch . |
| 28 | Now , Colonel Bumford is very typical of the type of regular officer , who is so orthodox and cautious , he finds it safer to put off making decisions rather than risk wrong ones . ’ |
| 29 | Such an interpretation of the law of karma which may have satisfied orthodox Hindus is rejected by Gandhi out of hand , for he finds it inconceivable to divorce morality from religion . |
| 30 | Burrows believes that smacking is as necessary as kissing and cuddling , and finds it ironic that the same kind of arguments about parents not knowing when to stop are used to undermine our instincts in both cases . |