Example sentences of "[not/n't] found " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | I have not found one cigarette end or one piece of waste paper . |
| 3 | Some manufacturers supply larger handles with larger tools , but I have not found any discomfort with this aspect of the design . |
| 4 | The idea that families do not ‘ look after their own ’ is not found to be true in practice . |
| 5 | But the body of Mrs Wilks was not found until two days later , at the bottom of a motorway embankment two-and-a-half miles away , when a motorist took police to a spot where he had seen a silver Renault 25 parked . |
| 6 | He had not found a single Tory MP who disagreed with his efforts to ameliorate the introduction of the tax in England and Wales next April . |
| 7 | This makes a striking contrast with Manet , whose prints , though rare , are modest in scale and not found in signed , numbered editions . |
| 8 | Morgan still remains the main authority on the Iroquois , but the real problem for the general theory is that confederations of the Iroquois type are not found in many places . |
| 9 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 10 | As the existing and new foundations are founded on a common ‘ ballast ’ subsoil , it was not found necessary to install movement joints between the new and the old constructions , although this policy was adopted in the reconstruction of St James 's , Knatchbull Road . |
| 11 | This is not , perhaps , the best year for Britain to act as host to open the series , for the entry tomorrow is clearly affected by Commonwealth Games training schedules as well as the fact that the English Cross Country Union has not found a sponsor who can provide the money for trust funds that might have enticed more prominent athletes . |
| 12 | The authority had not found out about the incident involving the cadets at Leek until they were in hospital , but tests on the water taken about the same time showed toxics from algae present . |
| 13 | Unlike other recruitment companies , Burns has not found trading becoming more difficult . |
| 14 | Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal and Democratic leader , said the other community members had ‘ not found her irritating only because they found her totally irrelevant . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ As a rule of thumb , we have not found it necessary . |
| 16 | The fact that many another highly gifted player has not found captaincy easy tended to be overlooked . |
| 17 | It is not found on the lips of Jesus , rarely in the Acts of the Apostles and never in John . |
| 18 | ( as if he has not found favour enough already ! ) |
| 19 | ‘ They 've not found Lord Lucan either , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Mind you 're not found lying at the bottom of the steps with a broken neck like Amy Robsart . |
| 21 | Pondering this mysterious complaint , Mungo had still not found an opening gambit when Mary Ann came back beaming , with the tea-tray . |
| 22 | In the end , I am a better woman , for my values are secure , they have been tried and not found wanting . |
| 23 | Even Party reports had to accept that the speech , at least in this point , had ‘ not found everywhere the response it deserved ’ . |
| 24 | Many , especially those on eating disorders , I have not found particularly helpful , and there are still others that I would positively not recommend ! |
| 25 | ( For many years the Wesleyan Methodist Year Book included a section on the ‘ Statistics of Popery ’ , something not found in the annual publications of the other main denominations . ) |
| 26 | Through the 1970s , he was tested out as PA to the finance director , director of planning in domestic banking and lending manager in the City 's Bishopsgate branch — and not found wanting . |
| 27 | The coast attracts many species not found elsewhere in Britain , and sometimes quite rare birds are blown off course to land exhausted on the mainland peninsula or the Isles of Scilly . |
| 28 | Development and growth in the District 's work was , of course , not found or sustained in every part of the District . |
| 29 | Not found a niche , yet ? ’ asks Sir . |
| 30 | She had not found any more Bacon rooms . |