Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] be found [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Men should not be found in sufficient numbers to do all the work there is to be done , and wages would rise as they should do ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His specialist care ca n't be found at all in Swindon . |
| 4 | If a sound basis can not be found for multicultural mathematics , then we may need to reconsider the value of this approach in other areas of the curriculum . |
| 5 | According to the Lords 's report on the water industry , 191 do not appear to have an owner and valid engineers ' reports ( required under the 1930 Reservoirs Act ) can not be found for more than half of them . |
| 6 | The answer can not be found without closer scrutiny of the Plantagenet presence in France . |
| 7 | Termites , ants , bees and wasps display various forms of this caste system , all of which show a level of social differentiation that can not be found among any vertebrate species other than man himself . |
| 8 | To sum up what I have outlined so far , the view of Wimsatt and Brooks is that the essential property of poetry consists in the reconciliation of harmonization of opposites ; that this takes the form of an objective organization of the objective meanings of words ; and that although the same organization generally can not be found in other kinds of discourse , it nonetheless contributes to our knowledge and experience of ourselves and of the world . |
| 9 | In his YWES chapter for 1924 ( p. 58 ) , he remarked that ‘ it will be a grievous shock to many an innocent sentimentalist , accustomed to see the one-eyed and red-bearded deities everywhere , to learn that Pórr and Oó3in can not be found in any Scandinavian place-name in England ’ . |
| 10 | Respect for such differences in viewpoints has produced in England and Wales a range of primary school practice and organisation which can not be found in any other developed nation . |