Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [not/n't] find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could n't find a taxi so we thought well we may as well start walking . |
| 2 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 3 | On the way into land we could n't find the mendlsham mast which we use as a land mark to find the airfield . |
| 4 | Abbey National considered using IV , but decided to move to compact discs : ‘ The problem was that we could n't find an IV system that did everything we wanted , ’ explains Julian Wakeley , manager for distance learning at Abbey National , ‘ also , we did n't need full motion video . ’ |
| 5 | I wanted to sculpt the stalactites but we could not find the sculptors . |
| 6 | But we shall not find a consistent position in which the tasks of biblical exegesis and scientific inquiry were no longer mutually relevant . |
| 7 | Can the Minister allay my suspicions about this by assuring me that as a result of a few industrialists having contributed to the programme we shall not find the names of certain chairmen and managing directors appearing in the new year honours list ? |
| 8 | If this were so we would not find the genuine uneasiness about an influx of strangers ( or outside influences ) that can not in any realistic sense threaten the members of the group as individuals , for instance , the insistence by sections of the US citizens that English — of all languages — has to be given protection against immigrant languages by the grant of an official monopoly of public use . |
| 9 | We ca n't find a national scheme for re-using Christmas cards , but many local charities run appeals . |
| 10 | Are fishkeepers really so publicity hungry that they have to come up with quotations such as the Sun 's reported comment from Christine ‘ If we ca n't find a new home ’ ( for the Gourami ) ‘ we 'll just have to eat him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We ca n't find the caretaker to open the locker-room door , ’ replied the assistant . |
| 12 | ‘ We have jobs that we ca n't fill because we ca n't find the right quality person for them , ’ admits Charles Macleod of Robert Half . |
| 13 | I would but it 's locked and we ca n't find the key … |
| 14 | ‘ We ca n't find the lady 's handbag . |
| 15 | We are making the chances but we ca n't find the back of the net . |
| 16 | If we walk round the towns and villages we will not find the acquisitiveness and competitiveness of modernity . |
| 17 | But we wo n't find the prince and his family here . ’ |
| 18 | Sorry , we can not find a place for you in the Christian ministry . ’ |
| 19 | We can not find a copy of the words . |
| 20 | At this point , the iteration has given no indication that a double root is involved ; however , this becomes apparent when we seek the row vector corresponding to cs : for all first minors of 1I — A vanish and we can not find a unique row vector . |
| 21 | The hardships we are suffering in the recession are nothing compared to the hell of the Bosnian detention camps , and if we can not find the cash to help what amounts to very few of them then we are morally as well as economically bankrupt . |
| 22 | Various scientists have therefore proposed that the reason we can not find the hypothetical tenth planet is that there is no such planet at all rather there is , much further out , a black hole . |
| 23 | When we reach the village we can not find the dispensary . |
| 24 | If we can not find the special legal conventions conventionalism requires , it is defeated in both its interpretive claims and its forward-looking , post-interpretive instructions . |
| 25 | Most of us get muddled , most of us ca n't find the right word , most of us ‘ um ’ and ‘ er ’ at various points as we 're talking . |