Example sentences of "[noun pl] find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE in four British husbands find their wives ' cooking ‘ barely edible ’ . |
| 2 | Some young readers find it disturbing , not because the characters lack emotion but because the whole story expresses emotional immaturity or instability . |
| 3 | MINISTER David Mellor 's toes might thrill Antonia de Sancha — but Britain 's teenagers find him a right turn-off . |
| 4 | These water-based peoples find our use of lavatory paper pretty funny , too . |
| 5 | In particular , traditional descriptive and analytic methods find it difficult to contemplate such phenomena as : ( 1 ) close approximation of phones without merger ; ( 2 ) overlapping allophones ; ( 3 ) flip-flops , and ( 4 ) reversal of merger . |
| 6 | Brasshats do , and , seemingly , leaders of nations find it utterly impossible . |
| 7 | Once in the city the time-travellers find it far from dead . |
| 8 | An election campaign in which the two principal parties find it difficult to believe what the opinion polls are telling them is a rum do . |
| 9 | Some users and classifiers find it beneficial to have a notation which is sufficiently flexible to permit a variety of citation orders to be adopted as appropriate to the document and the user 's perspective . |
| 10 | is n't for all kids — some kids find it excruciating ; boring , meaningless and fruitless as well 'cos they 're not going to get anything . |
| 11 | As with most coupes there is not a lot of room in the back , even kids find it tight . |
| 12 | The figs themselves are hardly bigger than acorns , but there are huge quantities of them and all kinds of animals find them irresistible . |
| 13 | I illustrate this approach by discussing the problem of how animals find their way about . |
| 14 | I will try to illustrate this by discussing how animals find their way about . |
| 15 | In discussing how animals find their way about , I have drawn a distinction between cases ( for example , jumping spiders making detours ) in which what is stored in the brain is a set of rules to be followed — sometimes called an ‘ algorithm ’ — and others ( for example , rats finding a submerged platform ) in which the brain stores a representation of the world , or , if you prefer , in which the animal has some knowledge of what is the case . |
| 16 | So by exploiting touch , taste and smell , by developing special techniques of echo-location and electrical sensitivity , many animals find their way around in the darkness with great precision . |
| 17 | The answers to the second question , of how animals find their way when migrating , can be more various . |
| 18 | The fortunate survivors find themselves with a wealth of food and very little competition in which to grow to their maximum potential . |
| 19 | And some computers find their niche as boffins , designing ever-fancier gadgets . |
| 20 | Educationists working with under-fives and in nursery settings find themselves regularly in contact with other professionals from health , social services , voluntary agencies . |
| 21 | Night Goblins find it necessary to occasionally descend into the chill depths in search of exotic funguses , so they know all too well what dangers await them . |
| 22 | According to General Accident , about 50,000 drivers find themselves stranded on the autobahn every year . |
| 23 | ( b ) The proactive , directional planning approach is usually more appropriate to the dynamic environment in which schools find themselves and to their need to react to pupils and circumstances . |
| 24 | Differences occur between teachers , between children , and between various environments in which schools find themselves . |
| 25 | In response to the difficult situation schools find themselves in , a critical and forward-looking approach to curriculum renewal was developed . |
| 26 | Schools find it quite easy to adapt to this kind of grouping where they are dealing with ‘ marginal ’ subjects like music theory . |
| 27 | Like small men , small cars find it hard to be taken seriously . |
| 28 | They say they have never encountered any problems in being an all-female firm ; if anything , they find that a lot of their male clients find it easier to talk to a woman about their finances . |
| 29 | A preliminary exploratory questionnaire study made it clear that subjects find it very difficult to give accident figures unless they have some anchors for their estimates . |
| 30 | We have seen the problems facing these mutations in the natural habitat , but in captivity their chances are far higher , because some fishkeepers find them interesting and attractive , and attempt to propagate them . |