Example sentences of "could [adv] find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Stan could only find one opening |
| 2 | When Soviet doctors carried out the autopsy on Hitler 's partially burned body they could only find one testicle , lending credence to the popular wartime ditty that the German dictator was indeed deficient in this intimate area . |
| 3 | Chamden City Reserves could only find five players . |
| 4 | We could only find Green Swords . |
| 5 | Sadly , we could only find 3 people who 'd heard it . |
| 6 | Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants ; MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts . |
| 7 | Sweating remained , child labour survived , and reformers could still find terrible poverty to expose , but improving conditions meant rising expectations , even though these were at first limited to a few . |
| 8 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 9 | But the SPD could now find little alternative to Kohl 's policy of welcoming the SED 's demise , allowing refugees in from the East and exploring possible routes to German reunification . |
| 10 | His prestige , like Aethelberht 's before him , could now find further expression in the diffusion of the new religion among the territories subject to him and through his personal participation in ecclesiastical affairs at the highest level . |
| 11 | ‘ Moving on from there it could be that we find out more about how certain diseases occur and we could maybe find new ways of treating diseases . ’ |