Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [be] found " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hoped that someone might be found from Africa . |
| 2 | It would , she saw , be perfectly possible for her and Pilade to go to England the following year if someone could be found to run her boarding house for the time it would take . |
| 3 | William of Dene , a monk based at Rochester , wrote in 1349 : ‘ To our great grief the plague carried off so vast a multitude of people of both sexes that nobody could be found who would bear the corpses to the grave . |
| 4 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 5 | It was wrong to pay out unemployment benefits , Kozlowski claimed , when no-one could be found to carry out urgent environmental tasks . |
| 6 | None could be found ; nevertheless , on 23 July the Imperial government sent Serbia an ultimatum , so worded as to be unacceptable . |
| 7 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 8 | The syntax of these " parallel declarations " is unimportant ; a suitable one may be found in [ R ] . |
| 9 | We believe that no one should be found guilty of a crime unless the statute or other piece of legislation establishing that crime is so clear that he must have known his act was criminal , or would have known if he had made any serious attempt to discover whether it was . |
| 10 | I thought that something might be found . ’ |
| 11 | But we hoped that something could be found . |
| 12 | No one could be found after the sale to say that it was crazy to pay sums of up to £40,000 for garnitures which until recently were as deeply unfashionable in the English house as the aspidistra . |
| 13 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 14 | Another unusual offering , one perhaps for Christmas if one could be found , would be an example of the souvenir rayon handkerchiefs which were on offer in RAF Officers ' and Sergeants ' Messes during 1940/1941 . |
| 15 | Merceron promptly resigned as treasurer ; but no one could be found to take his place , and he was re-elected in 1805 . |
| 16 | It is probable that no one would be found to dissent from this proposition [ the fundamental importance of the teaching of the English language ] , in which the meaning of the word English is limited to the language itself as a means of communication . |
| 17 | Something will be found for every style of house and garden , and every kind of planting . |
| 18 | The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time . |
| 19 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 20 | We must hope none the less that one can be found here . |
| 21 | The branch obtained last year from Chirbury to Minsterley remains with its ground unbroken , and yet the directors of the Bishop 's Castle are not ashamed to appear in Parliament with a demand to use so much of the Cambrian as will permit the former to effect communication with the Mid-Wales , another abortion over which no one can be found to preside save Mr Whalley , and which has not yet ventured to publish a return of traffic , or to submit an account of its income and expenditure for public inspection . |
| 22 | Even here , something can be found to say for the deficit , as a safety valve for inflationary pressures . |
| 23 | He let a dignified minute pass before going out himself , collecting Catherine , and dispatching Bruce to supervise the house-to-house interviews in Malplaquet Terrace , to see if anyone could be found who had seen the blue BMW arrive or caught sight of its driver . |
| 24 | And still popular was the middle way of going , and shouldering the cost of it later — if anyone could be found trusting enough to allow you to . |
| 25 | ‘ So it might , ’ said Ramses , ‘ if anyone could be found stupid enough to lend to the Khedive . ’ |
| 26 | She then searched all the rooms where anything could be found which could count as hers . |