Example sentences of "they [be] found [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most countries these are enshrined in a written constitution , as in the United States and the Soviet Union , and now its successor republics , while in Britain , unusually , they are not ; rather , they are found in a variety of sources — custom , statutes and conventions . |
| 2 | Where , however , they are found in a specially negotiated contract between two companies , the court is unlikely to have sympathy for the party who has missed the deadline . |
| 3 | They were found under a bridge , listening to their scanner , but its batteries had run down and they were n't aware the police were so close . |
| 4 | But one had already suffocated in the plastic bag by the time they were found by a passer by . |
| 5 | They were found in a van used by the cleaners . |