Example sentences of "could find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 2 | At first they assumed that he could find a place among the steep woods behind Camserney and be supplied by their good friends Donald and Aileen Gillies at the mill . |
| 3 | He wondered where he could find a chance of quieter work . |
| 4 | You 'd have thought anybody with two brain cells to rub together and a spark of wit could find a way past Mike Read and Phil Collins . |
| 5 | ( A wry comment from two young people who sometimes had to delay posting letters until they could find a few pennies for stamps . ) |
| 6 | If we could find a good home , you would at least be warm . ’ |
| 7 | How I wish I could find a master like you , tough and strong . |
| 8 | Their price of £4,000 to anyone who could find a typographical error in their works remains unclaimed to this day . |
| 9 | He could hardly tap them on the arm and yell : ‘ Can you tell me where I could find a child prostitute ? ’ |
| 10 | There are a range of other citizenship ‘ obligations ’ that could find a place in a government 's policy . |
| 11 | ( Nobody could find a good word to say for the secondary moderns , and that silence was eloquent and effective . ) |
| 12 | Equally , nobody could find a scrap of positive criticism . |
| 13 | The man ( if it was a man ) was probably a fairly junior member of the firm ; if only Henry could find a way of getting past him to the people really in the driving seat . |
| 14 | Of course , this alone did n't meet the cost of the hats or the debt owing , but she said if we could find a buyer for such as this it would , in a way , alleviate some of the debt … ’ |
| 15 | If it were I am sure we could find a way to beat it , such as having a weaker link to the ‘ feeder so that it will break away when snagged . |
| 16 | If we could find a heightened sense of beauty in the world of a prison camp , I thought , surely we could find it in the great free world of which we dreamed ? |
| 17 | At the beginning of this century it was believed that one could find a basic element of learning that was common to all these activities ; and that once this was established it would be possible to construct a single theory that would explain all learning and would provide a once-and-for-all guide to teaching . |
| 18 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 19 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |
| 20 | But Phoenician traders were notorious for their shady dealings around the Mediterranean and if there was a precious commodity for which they could find a ready market , nothing could stop them . |
| 21 | If only she would join with him now , perhaps together they could find a way through this terrible situation . |
| 22 | Nosy Salt could find a pin between floorboards ! |
| 23 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
| 24 | What should have been a simple review looked like it was about to turn into techno-confusion when the owner 's manual stated I could find a hook-up diagram on page 42 , and it was n't there . |
| 25 | She had had every test her doctor could think of , had been seen by a senior consultant and even by a psychiatrist , but no one could find a reason for the attacks . |
| 26 | ‘ I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal , ’ wrote Shaw . |
| 27 | It is , however , extremely unlikely that any of us could find a use for a hundred of these cars , even if we could solve the problem of getting into them , and this illustrates a fundamental difference between the car and the computer , and another reason for speaking of a microelectronics revolution . |
| 28 | It was bad enough having to sleep in the steerage — lying on the floor wherever she could find a place , where cockroaches and rats could run over her while she slept . |
| 29 | It has made him a millionaire but 32-year-old Chris would sell it all tomorrow if he could find a buyer . |
| 30 | But in art the revolutionary in van Gogh could find a place . ’ |