Example sentences of "could [be] found [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite last-minute manoeuvring by both sides , no compromise could be found between the mayor 's reported willingness to plead guilty to one or more of the 11 misdemeanour charges in return for a non-custodial sentence , and the US Attorney 's Office 's insistence that any plea bargain should include at least one of the three felony charges of lying to the grand jury . |
| 2 | Forbes proposed that no life could be found below a depth of 300 fathoms ( about 600 metres ) , a view not conclusively disproved until the Challenger expedition in the 1870s . |
| 3 | But as the recession deepened , no backers could be found for the scheme which had already cost over £1 million . |
| 4 | But as the recession deepened , no backers could be found for the scheme which had already cost over £1 million . |
| 5 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 6 | As yet no better solution could be found to the problem that there were more ‘ workers ’ than work available . |
| 7 | From almost every other walk of life a way could be found to the city patriciate ; and even the Jew could come there if he would submit to conversion . |
| 8 | A joint statement issued in London on Sept. 28 after talks between Brooke and the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) warned that if no new formula could be found within a month to bring together the nationalist and Unionist parties on the constitutional future of Northern Ireland , the initiative would have to be abandoned . |
| 9 | He must suspect that the bomb , or the other shapechanger , could be found within the station . |
| 10 | Mr Mulrine said more parking space could be found within the hospital grounds but it would involve ‘ laying tarmac next to the cenotaph ’ . |
| 11 | No one could be found after the sale to say that it was crazy to pay sums of up to £40,000 for garnitures which until recently were as deeply unfashionable in the English house as the aspidistra . |
| 12 | Pam had suggested that the dog could be found near a church , and that his whereabouts were connected with the letter ‘ J ’ . |
| 13 | Jeanne and the baby were to follow as soon as a wet-nurse could be found near the capital . |
| 14 | On two separate occasions , when questioned about the cost of implementing some proposals under the Maastricht treaty , the Leader of the Opposition said that the money could be found from the reform of the common agricultural policy . |
| 15 | These establishments could be found in every district in Gallimaufry ; places where citizens could relax in the vapours of restorative perfumes . |
| 16 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 17 | They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’ |
| 18 | In five of the subjects with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction , a continuously irregular frequency was present such that no clear dominant frequency could be found in the recording ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 19 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 20 | Management at Darlington 's Memorial Hospital introduced new procedures a few weeks ago when no food could be found in the hospital for a diabetic patient who had just been admitted . |
| 21 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 22 | More complex structures were revealed in crystals , and precise proportional relationships could be found in the arrangement of leaves and branches and the spirals of growing shoots . |
| 23 | Again no parasites could be found in the blood , but they appeared later , even if a course of quinine had been given in the meantime . |
| 24 | I stared blankly at the carefully drawn and accurate illustration of exactly where the main arteries could be found nearest the surface in the arms and wrists … and in the legs . |