Example sentences of "[not/n't] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , poorer clubs were anxious not to find themselves in a wages-auction with richer ones and the FA finally set a £4 a week maximum in 1900 , which was raised in 1909 to £5 for senior professionals with a club . |
| 2 | The aim is not to find an expert , but somebody who will pass callers on to experts . |
| 3 | Whatever you are looking for in a holiday , we defy you not to find it in Majorca . |
| 4 | It was , as it were , a survey designed not to find a problem , rather than one to check on the most vulnerable forests . |
| 5 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 6 | Although the graphics are looking a little dated , you 'd be a banana not to find a copy . |
| 7 | We believe you will find it quite difficult not to find a large number of meals which appeal to you , because no less than six cookery experts have combined their various tastes and talents to provide this selection of low-calorie , high-fibre meals . |
| 8 | His expression made it clear that any man or boy unlucky enough not to find another situation need not expect any sympathy : his place would have been filled . |
| 9 | This sort of nasal overdrive sound , reminiscent of a blocked sinus ( and about as difficult to get rid of ) , dogs many a small combo amp and I was surprised not to find it in abundance on both VGs . |
| 10 | If she was surprised not to find Harry in Celia 's bedroom , she did not say so . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it 's nice not to find yourself dead , ’ she said , but she closed her eyes submissively as he drew the sheets up over her . |
| 12 | Where such establishments are subject to careful ‘ quality control ’ , one would hope not to find physical abuse or neglect in their grosser forms . |
| 13 | Bernadette 's lack of vetting will be condemned by many as the blueprint of how not to find someone to care for your child . |
| 14 | I arrived at Annat in the early afternoon and was disappointed not to find any offers of refreshment on display . |
| 15 | Lack of confidence in the ‘ Portrait of Michael Wohlgemut ’ attributed to Durer resulted in failure at £380,000 ( est. £600,000–800,000 ) while Sotheby 's must have considered themselves unlucky not to find a buyer for the rare Garofalo ‘ Calumny of Apelles ’ ( lot 41 , est. £200,000–300,000 ) , an important but difficult canvas . |
| 16 | We were not to find out . |
| 17 | All I ask is that you should bear in mind that in an agency with 25 or 30 people you are unlikely to find all the jobs described : indeed , you are quite likely not to find them all in an agency with 500 people , and there are precious few of those in Europe , and not many in the USA . |
| 18 | The problem is not to find them , but to select and order them comprehensibly . |
| 19 | Their initial meeting at dinner in Hall was not quite accidental : the nature of the placement was such that strong scholarship candidates were more likely than not to find themselves sitting together . |
| 20 | In any event , the distinction between looking at reports to identify the mischief aimed at but not to find the intention of Parliament in enacting the legislation is highly artificial . |
| 21 | The only study not to find a clear positive relationship between volume and volatility is the cross-section study of 25 futures by Telser and Higinbotham ( 1977 ) . |
| 22 | He looked round the little nursery with a puzzled frown , as if disconcerted not to find a chair . |
| 23 | So I must be careful not to find out . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm crying because I ca n't bear not to find my family , ’ she sniffed , ‘ not because of you . ’ |
| 25 | Should you be unfortunate enough not to find a solution by this means , then you may have lost the alignment of the disk read/write heads . |
| 26 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 27 | When he arrived he was doing much the same thing since he was n't as naïve about the values of the secret world as she assumed : assuring himself there was nothing to suspect and being careful not to find any signs of it . |
| 28 | So , if you 've dreamed of a certain colour or pattern , you 'd be very unlucky not to find it in the Stoddard Templeton range . |
| 29 | This need not be the case , for advancements in the use of technology within the catering kitchen have progressed to the extent that it is unusual not to find a catering establishment using high technology within the work-place . |
| 30 | They 're trained to collate evidence about the present , and project it into the future , not to find out what happened fifteen years ago to some one particular person , least of all one with whom I had a slight personal acquaintance . |