Example sentences of "they could find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors considered this , and decided that one payment only was in order because , although they could find evidence of the donation by the man , they could find no evidence of any donation by the horse . |
| 2 | But they are still used as nest-eggs and , in particular , they could find favour among directors with substantial interests in multi-nationals . |
| 3 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 4 | If the Government did not fulfil these expectations , they could find difficulty in future in arranging any such competition . |
| 5 | What they could find room to laugh at , however , was the way in which respectable England could ignore the realities of slum life for so many years , while showering the Empire with the benefits of Christianity and imperial wars , and then get itself into a respectable lather in such a short time about a few broken heads among rough lads . |
| 6 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |