Example sentences of "could be find [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forbes proposed that no life could be found below a depth of 300 fathoms ( about 600 metres ) , a view not conclusively disproved until the Challenger expedition in the 1870s . |
| 2 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 3 | A joint statement issued in London on Sept. 28 after talks between Brooke and the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) warned that if no new formula could be found within a month to bring together the nationalist and Unionist parties on the constitutional future of Northern Ireland , the initiative would have to be abandoned . |
| 4 | Pam had suggested that the dog could be found near a church , and that his whereabouts were connected with the letter ‘ J ’ . |
| 5 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 6 | They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’ |