Example sentences of "could [not/n't] be traced " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the other 13 POWs , six were given nothing , five either died at that time or could not be traced , and two refused to submit to means testing . |
| 2 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 3 | Then , in 1927 , Sawyer and Darton wrote that his fifth and sixth titles could not be traced . |
| 4 | The exclusion of two children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma ( whose parents could not be traced ) probably did not affect the results . |
| 5 | In the 1860s and 1870s , the evolutionists turned to morphology , the detailed study of animal structure , as a means of working out relationships that could not be traced in the fossil record . |
| 6 | Athelstan remembered Foreman 's words — how the lady who had visited his shop had bought a poison which could not be traced or smelt yet would stop the heart . |
| 7 | Jared and Mary Tunstall had arrived at last in London , summoned by Orrin when it became apparent that Sally-Anne could not be traced . |
| 8 | Of 46 patients who had Nissen fundoplication for proved gastro-oesophageal reflux , 25 were available for follow up after a median of 20 years , 15 had died of unrelated causes , and six could not be traced . |
| 9 | Six others could not be traced . |
| 10 | It could use its powers of compulsory acquisition to amalgamate land which was in separate ownerships and acquire land the owners of which could not be traced . |
| 11 | It showed a total of 362 titles specifically requested by borrowers could not be traced . |
| 12 | ‘ You said you wanted somebody who could n't be traced . |
| 13 | She knew how to rig ‘ accidents ’ that could n't be traced back to her . |