Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [be] find [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She immediately informed the police but no trace could be found of thief or machine . |
| 2 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Legal doctrine was in danger of appearing incoherent unless some reconciliation could be found between these two visions of the company . |
| 5 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 6 | No other home could be found for these cars at short notice , so Cohen 's men were called in with oxy-acetylene torches to break them up on the spot . |
| 7 | Visible expression of his anxiety could be found in his fingernails which were so savagely bitten that his sheets were often stained with blood . |
| 8 | Long before there was the clatter of rotor blades above PE , a major base could be found on the southern edge of the airfield , this was 42 Air School ( AS ) , established at south End , in 1940 , and opened ‘ for business ’ in April 1940 as part of the joint Air Training Scheme . |
| 9 | No link could be found with the Oxfordshire couple . |
| 10 | David Bigg of the Braintree and Witham Rail Users Group said he was surprised that extra money could be found for the roads when the railways were desperately in need of extra investment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With phosphatidylcholine , which is the major biliary phospholipids , cholesterol could be found in both carriers depending , however , on the acyl chains . |
| 13 | But he added that unless a buyer could be found for the debt-ridden club , which made a £700,000 loss last year , they could join the dubious ranks of former Football League clubs . |
| 14 | During October Year 41 , Sour Ltd was notified that , due to the death of Crowt Ltd 's managing director , who held 30% of the Ordinary Shares , the remaining directors were considering liquidating Crowt Ltd unless a buyer could be found for the shares previously held by the managing director . |
| 15 | Only a hundred years ago , costmary could be found in almost any cottage garden , in fact in most gardens throughout Britain . |
| 16 | The series did not have a uniform intellectual line and many varieties of opinion could be found in the contributors . |
| 17 | The US authorities instigated 1,551 cases , but of these only 45 per cent were prosecuted as criminal ; the majority were dealt with as civil matters even though little difference could be found in the types of anti-trust behaviour these corporations committed . |
| 18 | It could be and I do n't want to preempt any discussion that would take place , but it could be a solution er from the Hatfield site could be found in the same way as a solution was found by er Sunderland Council and er Cleveland County Council over the shipyards in er in Sunderland . |
| 19 | No record could be found of my previous day 's arrangements . |
| 20 | SO WHEN THE DUST cleared after Armageddon , what meaning could be found in the ruins ? |
| 21 | Yet , when there was any racing on , transport could be found for that , could n't it ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had asked William about getting Aggie a cat but he had no idea where a tomcat could be found on the quick and he shook his head . |
| 24 | This makes it an attractive base for radical groups ; at least until recently , offices for just about every outlawed Arab Islamic organisation could be found in Peshawar . |
| 25 | The only times my father could be found in his room were first thing in the morning and last thing at night . |
| 26 | Pam had suggested that the dog could be found near a church , and that his whereabouts were connected with the letter ‘ J ’ . |
| 27 | Later , when the development of ferro-alloys made new minerals necessary , tungsten , chrome , manganese and bauxite could be found in Europe , although more and more rare metals had to be imported . |
| 28 | No doubt the sort of collaboration recorded in this example could be found in any classroom , whether the teacher intended it or not . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Still other patterns of agricultural life could be found in western Germany , France and Switzerland , where a high degree of subdivision of the land among peasant proprietors was already in 1880 the rule , and was to increase . |