Example sentences of "have found a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 2 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 3 | ‘ It was quite appalling and , had we known it was going to happen , I 'm certain we would have found a different way of dealing with our problem . ’ |
| 4 | It could not have found a more appropriate , more common voice than the soulful . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 6 | Edward Lear , too , would have felt at home in Bletchley 's realm of Complete Nonsense ; and he would even have found a friend called Foss . |
| 7 | In Susanna Jennens Leapor would have found a woman able to fend for herself in adversity . |
| 8 | If he had persevered a bit more , he might have found a landlady whose idea of cooking extended beyond steak-and-kidney pudding and spotted Dick . |
| 9 | I would appeal to anyone who may have found a Suunto-ML wrist computer on site to contact me or Caernarfon police station . |
| 10 | John could hardly have found a better influence . |
| 11 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 12 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 13 | It may be for a perfectly simple reason , for example a partner may have found a job which entails moving out of the area . |
| 14 | If the Young Pretender had marched into England directly after Prestonpans , which had been fought on 21 September , he would have found a country ill-prepared to resist him , but many of his followers were reluctant to cross the Border . |
| 15 | They should n't have found a single gun that day — we 'd have buried the lot if we 'd only known in time . ’ |
| 16 | LONDON Marathon founder Chris Brasher knows an athlete when he sees one and the former Great Britain international may have found a medal winner in the shape of Moving Out , who looks something to bet on at Uttoxeter this afternoon . |
| 17 | He could have found a much more durable and attractive later edition for £20-£30 . |
| 18 | But the ancient world would have found a lot more uses for citrus fruit . |
| 19 | Before you can say Edward de Bono , it might have found a way of creatively accounting your taxes , so the taxman actually owes you money . |
| 20 | You will have found a sample sheet of this new paper in last month 's issue . |
| 21 | Perhaps there was hope , perhaps all was not harsh antipathy , perhaps a better daughter might have found a way to soften such a mother . |
| 22 | In the next few weeks , as the Angevin court moved south from Caen , the tensions came to the surface and in Bertrand de Born the muddle , the bickering and the bitterness would have found a fascinated observer . |
| 23 | Could she have found a strategy for comparing the areas ? |
| 24 | If we can characterise this marking of topic-shift , then we shall have found a structural basis for dividing up stretches of discourse into a series of smaller units , each on a separate topic . |
| 25 | Even at their height , the number of these ‘ misfits ’ , many of whom ‘ could not have found a profession under any circumstances ’ , was very limited . |
| 26 | At any other record company , the protesters would not have got beyond the uniformed commissionaires on the door ; at no other record company would you have found a group still wearing kaftans . |
| 27 | Astute readers might also have found a small note , placed in the magazine 's gossip column , referring to the front page story and reminding readers that it was 1 April — placed there by Birbeck as a precautionary measure . |
| 28 | If she had wanted a husband , she could not have found a good reason for refusing to marry him . |
| 29 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 30 | ‘ Floy would have found a way , ’ said Fenella firmly . |