Example sentences of "could not be found " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King hoped next to see Baldwin , but the Conservative leader could not be found : he was , ironically , lunching with Geoffrey Dawson , the editor of The Times , and discussing Cabinet appointments — something he found easier to do with Dawson than with his party colleagues . |
| 2 | The fatal approach was to falter and say that whatever he had asked for could not be found — then , the violence was terrifying . |
| 3 | The girl had darted into a dark stretch of the corridor , and could not be found easily . |
| 4 | One man could not be found , several others were slightly injured , but worst of all vital supplies were missing . |
| 5 | Before 1 a.m. , he was noted missing from his beat and could not be found . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the 13 men missing could not be found . |
| 7 | The Tennants had a highland bullock which went missing and , although the boys searched the district , the animal could not be found . |
| 8 | Only the curtains are n't yet complete ; the identical silk could not be found . |
| 9 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 10 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 11 | One reason for this would be if the original script contained spelling errors , so the ‘ correct ’ word could not be found as a legal English word . |
| 12 | P&P Plc has quickly found a buyer for its volume computer distribution business which should mean that it can reverse at least a part of the £8.9m provision it took against its most recent figures to cover costs of closure if a buyer could not be found . |
| 13 | There was too the erroneous belief that black substitute parents could not be found ( ABAFA , 1976 ) . |
| 14 | The ramshackle eight-seater at first did not take off because of a storm after which a pilot could not be found . |
| 15 | Tower Hamlets , acting under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1967 , required Chetnik to pay rates on the buildings over a period of some years during which they were unoccupied because tenants could not be found . |
| 16 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 17 | The LFS asks questions about reasons for taking a temporary job , offering four responses : " because the contract included a period of training " , " because a permanent job could not be found " , " because a permanent job was not wanted " and " other/no reason " . |
| 18 | The single most important reason given by temporary workers for working on that basis is that a permanent job could not be found . |
| 19 | Then Mr Briggs wrote again later , saying this girl could not be found . |
| 20 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 21 | A highlight of the evening was the presentation of a cheque for £25,000 from the Master of the Merchant Venturers to support the Campaign for Resource , although those in the know nearly had heart failure when the Master could not be found in the crowded room as the time for the presentation approached . |
| 22 | Thus in 1779 , when it was desired to refer to Choiseul 's despatches relating to the Family Compact of 1761 , they could not be found and copies had to be obtained from Madrid . |
| 23 | The hue and cry started for you , but you could not be found . |
| 24 | Spielberg , maker of such classics as ET , Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Jaws , could not be found after the storm had passed . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , R. J. O. Bryer could not be found . |
| 26 | The LIFESPAN configuration file specified at the LSCONFIGURATIONFILE keyword , in the RDBI configuration file , could not be found , or , it could not be opened . |
| 27 | In 1779 the correspondence relating to the Family Compact agreement of 1761 with Spain could not be found there , so that copies of it had to be obtained from Madrid , though the comte de Vergennes , as foreign minister in 1774 – 87 , seems to have made efforts to achieve greater efficiency . |
| 28 | It said the MPs offered no factual material that could not be found in the report . |
| 29 | Counsel submitted that two persons could not be found guilty of murdering the same person unless each was acting in concert with the other . |